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Your evening longread: Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on the legacy of The Silence Of The Lambs

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle. 

We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.

The Silence Of The Lambs

Jonathan Demme’s movie was a massive hit and is still a pop culture touchstone. Here are its stars on the legacy of the film. 

(Vanity Fair, approx mins 22 reading time)

I think Jodie just won the Oscar for The Accused, actually. So I came to the dressing room and I started reading it, and I got through about 10 pages. When [the FBI agent] Crawford said, “You don’t want Hannibal Lecter inside your head,” I thought, Ooh, that’s it. I phoned my agent, and I said, “Is this an offer? This is the best part I could ever…” He said, “Well, it’s not a big part.” I said, “I don’t care.”

Read all the Evening Longreads here> 

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