Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are opening up about The Silence of the Lambs ahead of the film’s 30th anniversary.
The co-stars virtually reunited and reflected on the legacy of their movie in Variety‘s Actors on Actors series.
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“We didn’t get to speak too much before the actual read-through. We just sort of kind of waved from across the room and then sat down at the table,” Jodie.
“And as you launched into Hannibal Lecter, I felt a chill come over the room. In a way, it was like we were almost too scared to talk to each other after that,” she went on to say to her co-star.
“I was naturally nervous, an Englishman — a Limey like me, a Welshman — playing an American serial killer. And I remember [director Jonathan Demme], when the camera picked me up, he said, ‘Oh, my God. That’s it. Hopkins. You’re so weird!’” Anthony recalled.
“And I said, ‘Why, thank you.’ And they wanted the lighting girl to come into my cell, and I said, ‘What are you doing in my cell?’ And [Jonathan] said, ‘Oh, my God.’ So I knew I had pressed the right button,” he went on to say.
“I felt like I never had an actor’s personality. Much to my chagrin, it does not come naturally to me, or easily. I’m much more of a reader or a thinker. I’m a chess mover. Acting was just something that was my family’s job, my family’s profession, that I fell into. I have to say, at least once a week, I say, ‘Oh, I’m never going act again.’ But it draws you back in. I think it’s good for somebody like me, who does live in their head a lot — to get out of my head and have to live in my body. And I think that’s benefited me as a person,” Jodie added.
