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12 Silence of the Lambs Details Almost Everybody Missed

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Tim Molloy

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Orion

Finally, Orion Pictures asked him to take another meeting with Foster, rather than signing Dern. He said they argued that Foster had just won an Oscar for The Accused, and that Dern was much less well-known.

He agreed to meet Foster, but was still determined not to hire her — until he watched her exit down the hallway.

“And I thought about how much she loved that part, and how much my partners at Orion wanted her in that part, and I was like, “ehhhh, I’ll go with her.”

He added: “Look what happened. I fell madly in love with her,” Demme told Anderson.

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Tim Molloy

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  • Just read the books. This conversation never occurred. It was only the thought process she went through in Clarice's mind after she found Lecter's message on the map. The movie needed a vehicle to convey that message to the audience so they used Ardelia Mapp as the voice of her conscience.

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