Having played Hannibal Lecter three times, do you have a favourite out of the three films?
I actually think Red Dragon is the best of the three. It’s the most interesting and frightening and scary. I tried to play him differently than I did in the other two films. I said to [director] Brett Ratner that I didn’t just want to repeat what I did in Silence Of The Lambs, so Lecter is so much angrier in Red Dragon. No charm. Just lethal. You hold the record for winning the Best Actor Oscar for the shortest amount of time on screen: you’re only in Silence Of The Lambs for about 17 minutes… It’s a short role. I just remember when Kathy Bates was up on the stage and read out “The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins,” I looked around because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I didn’t have any expectations of it at all. And when all the so-called stuff hit the fan because Jodie wasn’t going to do Hannibal, and Jonathan Demme wasn’t going to do it, my reaction was a mild, “Oh, okay.” But l didn’t even give it any thought that I should try to persuade anyone. I didn’t care quite hone
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