Brian Cox Is Totally Cool With Anthony Hopkins’ Greater Hannibal Lecter Fame

In a caller interrogation tied to The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim that ends up being mostly astir Succession (perhaps unsurprisingly), Brian Cox spoke astir what it was similar to beryllium the feline who played Hannibal Lecter connected surface first… a fewer years earlier Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning show successful The Silence of the Lambs made everyone deliberation he’d originated the role.

The seasoned actor, who since 1986 has carved retired his ain stock of legendary performances, has made bid with what could’ve been an epic thespian feud. “Well, it’s a antithetic character,” helium told the Hollywood Reporter. “I mean, it’s similar playing Hamlet. Everybody’s going to person their ain Hamlet. I chose to play it the mode the manager Michael Mann and I decided to play it. Tony played it brilliantly. I mean, I had to spell to Paris to spot it due to the fact that I couldn’t bring myself to spot it successful London.”

Asked for clarification connected the past portion of his answer, Cox explained, “Because radical knew that I was the different Hannibal, and I was disquieted astir them saying, ‘You’re comparing Hannibal Lecters’ and each that. But we played it the mode we played it. Tony decided to instrumentality it down different route. And of course, Tony’s was a immense success, and helium got the Oscar and helium made a batch of wealth retired of it. I made thing similar 10 grand.”

But the 1 regularisation that’s stuck with both, apparently, is that Cox and Hopkins do not talk astir Hannibal Lecter. “I did an interrogation with a newspaper, and the header successful the paper was that I was the archetypal Hannibal Lecter. Well, that was true, but it sounded similar I was boasting astir it and I wasn’t. And past I woke up 1 day and the telephone started ringing and each hellhole broke escaped … Tony’s then-missus rang my cause and said, ‘Tony’s a spot upset astir that.’ So I rang my cause and I said, ‘Look, I apologize.’ Tony and I person worked unneurotic a mates of times since. We ne'er speech astir it. And that’s a regularisation that we ne'er would.”

For those wondering, THR didn’t bring up Mads Mikkelsen’s instrumentality connected the quality connected the TV bid Hannibal—so we’re inactive wondering what Cox thought of that mentation of the blase serial killer. With that successful mind, you tin caput to THR to work the afloat interview.

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