Silence Of The Lambs Stars Jodie Foster And Anthony Hopkins Reunite For 30th Anniversary

Horror movie fans rejoice - Silence of the Lambs stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins have reunited to celebrate the film's 30^th anniversary.

Released in 1991, the film starred Foster as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter (played by Hopkins) to catch another killer.

The actors took part in Variety's Actors on Actors series, where both Jodie and Anthony discussed the experience of shooting the classic film, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

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"As you launched into Hannibal Lecter, I felt a chill come over the room," Jodie said, describing her how she felt when she first saw Anthony in character.

She added: "In a way, it was like we were almost too scared to talk to each other after that."

Anthony then reminisced about how strange it was during their lunch breaks, when the pair would stop filming scenes together in Lecter's prison cell to eat.

"I thought, 'How extraordinary. We're all sitting here,' and we'd just been chomping on each other and making life hell for each other - and here we are having lunch," he said.

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"It didn't make any sense at all. And that's why it's such an amusing game.

"We get up in the morning, go to a place, we'd put on somebody else's clothes and speak lines that had nothing to do with us.

"And you think, 'What on Earth is it all about?' And that's the wonderful, magical game of it all."

The first trailer for Clarice, the TV sequel to The Silence of the Lambs has dropped earlier this month... and it looks terrifying.

Check out the trailer below:

The series will follow Clarice, a young FBI trainee, as she continues to track down serial killers and sexual predators, all the while trying to navigate the political world of Washington DC. It will be set one year after the events of Thomas Harris's original The Silence of the Lambs novel.

Pretty Little Liars actress Rebecca Breeds will star as the titular detective in the drama, which will take place in 1993.

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