Jodie Foster really respected the ‘silence’ of Silence of the Lambs… she didn’t talk to Anthony Hopkins at all during the filming!
In 2016, when he was one of the guests on The Graham Norton Show to promote his film Money Monster (2016), the actor explained why he never spoke to his co-star on the set of the 1991 cult film. which won no less than 5 Oscars. Silence of the lambs Indeed was a big winner at the ceremony the following year, winning awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Jonathan Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for its two controversial leads.
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And finally, maybe that silence comes in Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins — and a shared fear of each other — that made their on-screen relationship work so well.
No, I never spoke to him. He was scary! We were reading on the first day and by the end I didn’t want to talk to him anymore. I was petrified.
He explained that for almost the entire shoot, they removed the film’s famous glass partitions and the cell where Hannibal Lecter spent most of his time, and that much of their dialogue was also delivered in front of the camera. So, when his partner was shooting his scenes in front of the camera, the actor was far from him, “where he couldn’t see him” – all this limited their interaction. “We got to the end of the movie and we didn’t really have a conversation“, he concluded.
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And when asked if they met by chance backstage, Jodie Foster answers: “No, I avoided it. As much as possible. I really avoided it!“
But it turns out that feeling of dread was mutual, as he discovered while eating a tuna sandwich on their final day of filming, he explained: “He came to me and, I don’t know, tears came to my eyes and I said, “I was really afraid of you.” And he said: I was afraid of you!“
Watch Jodie Foster’s hilarious explanation in the video below:
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