It’s hard to believe Silence of the Lambs is turning 30 -years old this year! I swear, it feels like every year moves faster and faster, does it not?
The cult-classic horror film stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins as Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, respectively.
Now, the pair have reunited years later to give fans the reunion of the DECADE as far as I’m concerned.
*Silence of the Lambs* was one of the first horror movies I ever saw. Sure, it was scary when I watched it the first 20 times but now? It’s one of my favorite films!
Silence of the Lambs is notoriously one of the best horror movies of all time, and for good reason! It won in all of the top five categories it was nominated for at the Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
It’s also one of SIX horror movies to ever be nominated in the Best Picture category.
The film wouldn’t have been the smash success it was without the amazing acting from Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Ted Levine.
Can you believe that the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling was initially supposed to go to Michelle Pfeiffer?
It’s so interesting to think about that that version of the film would look like.
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Now, to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the films release, Jodie Foster And Anthony Hopkins reunited (virtually, of course) to commemorate the film’s milestone.
The pair opened up about their experience on set together and got candid in a way fans haven’t heard before!
“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 recalled on the video chat.
“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 added.
Anthony said he “couldn’t believe” that he’d have the opportunity to share the screen with the incomparable Jodie.
“I remember, I was in London in 1989, doing a play called M. Butterfly. My agent sent a script. He said, ‘Why don’t you read this? It’s called Silence of the Lambs . I said, ‘Is it a children’s story?'” he joked.
“It was a hot summer afternoon, and the script came over and I started reading it. After 10 pages, I phoned my agent. I said, ‘Is this a real offer? I want to know. This is the best part I’ve ever read.’ … I couldn’t believe my luck, and I was scared to speak to you. I thought, ‘She just won an Oscar.'”
Jodie continued: “There are certain images that get seared into your imagination and you say, ‘That’s the character. For me, with Clarice, it was also about her voice, mostly because she was somebody that had been scarred by the bleeding of the lambs, the sound and how there was nothing she could do to help them.”
“My mom said to me, ‘Why do you want to play this character who’s kind of quiet and mousy?’ She had this quietness. There was almost a shame that she wasn’t bigger, that she wasn’t stronger — this person trying to overcome the failure of the body they were born in.”
“In some ways, she was just like the victims — another girl in another town,” she continued.
“The fact that she could relate to those victims made her the hero.”
I just got chills all over again! Don’t mind me, just running to turn on my DVD player to watch this amazing film again!
Silence of the Lambs turns 30 on February 14, 2021. Watch the full video chat here .
h/t: Variety
