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anthony hopkins Is dismissed the rumors that he and his silence of the Lambs co-star jodie foster They did not get along on the set of the Oscar-winning film, calling him “publicity bullshit”.
The 1991 horror-thriller starred Foster as rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling, who must enlist the help of imprisoned cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter to capture a mass murderer. Both actors won Oscars for their performances. Foster has long admitted that she was intimidated by Hopkins during the production of the film, but Hopkins has now claimed that this was an exaggeration.
Hopkins added, “I met Jody and she was great.” a recent episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast. “There are quotes that Jodie never spoke to me. That’s not true. We were quite friendly. There’s nothing scary about it. This is publicity nonsense.”
However, in 2021, Foster said the pair maintained a proper distance on set.
“We didn’t talk much before the actual reading [of the script]”He told Diversity“And as soon as you walked in Hannibal Lecter, I felt a coldness in the room, In a way, it felt like we were almost afraid to talk to each other after that,”
In 2016, during an appearance graham norton showFoster suggests this by declaring, “[I] never talked [Hopkins]it was scary”,
Hopkins has recently been promoting his memoir We did it right, babyin which he discusses his life and career, and especially his separation from his daughter,
He writes at one point about his relationship with Foster, recalling of the pair that he “felt a strange sense of distance during the shoot, no doubt due to the power of the script, which had us playing a game of cat and mouse”. But she clarified that whenever the pair meet each other after filming, they are always together.
In his review of the memoir, IndependentLewis Chilton wrote this We did it right, baby Gives a “disappointingly brief overview” of Hopkins’ film career, which is presented briefly throughout the book.