Alongside Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 classic
Anthony Hopkins acted as many characters after The Silence of the Lambs (1991), but his role as serial killer Hannibal Lecter remains “one of the best roles” he ever had. The actor won an Oscar for his performance alongside Jodie Foster.
The script was taken by the agent Hopkinswhich starred M. Butterfly in the theater at the time. “He said, ‘I want you to read this.’ I said, ‘Is this an offer?’ He said, ‘It’s a film with Jodie Foster called The Silence of the Lambs‘. I thought it was a children’s story,'” he recalled. Anthony in an interview with People.
“So, I opened it. I sat in the dressing room in the theater and read the first Lecter scene. I asked, ‘Is it an offer?’ He said, ‘I’m not sure.’ I said, ‘I’m not going to keep reading it, because it’s one of the best papers I’ve ever read.'”
“I knew how to play the character,” he continued. “I have an instinct about these roles. I could understand Lecter. I could understand the mystery of the man, the loneliness, the voice isolated in the darkness, the man at the top of the stairs who isn’t really there.”
Source: Rollingstone
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