Anthony Hopkins Replaced Sean Connery in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
Can you imagine anyone other than Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? How about James Bond actor Sean Connery? Well, it almost happened! The film’s director wanted to make it so. Then the director heard that Connery had made a public comment about passing on the script after he read it. So, the director decided to go with someone else and that someone was none other than the amazing Anthony Hopkins.