Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins were even “really afraid” of each other on the set of the cult film…
Jodie Foster really respected the “silence” of Silence of the Lambs… by not speaking to Anthony Hopkins at all during the filming of the film!
It was in 2016, when she was one of the guests on the “Graham Norton Show” to promote her film Money Monster (2016), that the actress explained why she never spoke to her co -star on the set of the cult 1991 film which won no less than 5 Oscars. Thesilenceofthelambs was indeed the big winner of the ceremony the following year, winning the awards for best film, best director for Jonathan Demme, best adapted screenplay and best female and male lead roles for its two headliners in question .
And finally, maybe this silence enters 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 creepy! The first day we did a reading [de tout le scénario] […] and in the end, I never wanted to speak to him again. I was petrified.
She explained that they were separated, during almost the entire filming, by the famous glass partitions of the film and the cell where Hannibal Lecter spent most of his time and that many of their dialogues were also delivered in front of the camera. . So when his playing partner was filming his scenes in front of the camera, the actress was far from him, “where he couldn’t see her” – all factors which limited their interactions. “We got to the end of the movie and we had never really had a conversation”, she concluded.
And to the question of whether they ever met backstage by chance, Jodie Foster answers : “No, I avoided it. As much as possible. I really avoided it!”
But it turns out that this feeling of fear was mutual, as she discovered on their last day of filming while eating a tuna fish sandwich, she clarified: “He came up to me and, I don’t know, I kind of had a tear in my eye, and I said, ‘I was really scared of you.’ And he said, ‘I was afraid of you!’”
Check out Jodie Foster’s hilarious explanation in the video below: