Hopkins Regrets Playing Lecter Three Times

It looks like we’ve seen the last of everybody’s favourite cannibal.  Since the television series has been canned, you might wonder if it’ll head back to the big screen.  Apparently not, not with Anthony Hopkins anyway.

Speaking with The Wrap this week, Hopkins was asked whether he would play Lecter again to which he responded with a blunt: “No… I don’t want to do that. Done with that. I did it once. Made the mistake of doing it twice – three times. ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is okay. It was a good film.”

Well he should count himself lucky he did not appear in that horrible prequel, not Red Dragon, which wasn’t so bad, but you know, the other one.  By the way let’s not forget Brian Cox’s turn as Hannibal, he was pretty good too.