"It's the greatest entrance in movie history and he doesn't move a muscle. FBI rookie Clarice Starling must walk along the row of cells until she reaches Dr Lecter's reinforced glass tank, where the man himself is simply standing, his face a living skull of satanic malice, eerily immobile in his form-fitting blue prison jumpsuit immobile, that is, until such time as he launches himself against the glass, making that extraordinary hissing-slavering sound."
"He was hardly an unknown when he got that Oscar-winning part in The Silence of the Lambs in 1989: a star wasn't born, but rather a megastar, a legend. His Dr Lecter was based, Hopkins cheerfully recalls in this new autobiography, on Bela Lugosi's Dracula, on Stalin as recalled by his daughter, and on his own icily exacting, gimlet-eyed Rada tutor Christopher Fettes."
An iconic movie entrance depicts Hannibal Lecter motionless behind reinforced glass until he suddenly lashes out with an extraordinary hissing-slavering sound. That portrayal elevated Anthony Hopkins into a megastar after the Oscar-winning role in The Silence of the Lambs (1989). The Lecter character drew inspiration from Bela Lugosi's Dracula, from Stalin as remembered by his daughter, and from Christopher Fettes, Hopkins's Rada tutor. A father-daughter dimension influenced some performances, tied to guilt over an estranged daughter, Abigail, from a disastrous first marriage to Petronella Barker. Hopkins grew up in Port Talbot as the son of Richard Arthur Hopkins, a plain-speaking baker with a wistful romantic streak.
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