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This article is from the Hannibal Lecter FAQ, by Cory Compton Coleman cory@gladstone.uoregon.edu with numerous contributions by others.

18 What actors were the first choices for Silence of the Lambs?

Believe it or not, Jodie Foster wasn't the first pick for Clarice
Starling-- Michele Pfeiffer was! (gag)

More believable is that for the role of Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins
replaced veteran supervillian Gene Hackman.

Looking back, I can't think of a single actor who should have been replaced
in the movie. Maybe Hackman could have done a decent Lecter, but certainly
not the same one we all know and love. And Pfeiffer as West Virginia
Refugee Starling??? Come on!

 

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