The director wanted Sean Connery to play Hannibal
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Silence of the Lambs
Chicxulub — 4 months ago(November 30, 2025 08:10 PM)
Sir Sean Connery was Jonathan Demme's first choice to play Dr. Hannibal Lecter, but he turned the part down.
Can you imagine?
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AnthonySocksss — 3 months ago(December 02, 2025 05:35 AM)
Brian Cox played Lecter/Lector, and with a Scottish accent to boot
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AnthonySocksss — 3 months ago(December 02, 2025 08:17 AM)
they both have Scottish accents, retard
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AnthonySocksss — 3 months ago(December 02, 2025 08:30 PM)
It’s clearly a scotch accent you dumb Ameri****
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元才 — 3 months ago(December 02, 2025 09:56 AM)
A mid-Atlantic accent with a Lithuanian lilt?
Nobody found issue with Brian Cox or Mads Mikkelsen
Gaspard Ulliel got a bit of a ribbing for his French portrayal I suppose, but only when compared to Anthony Hopkins take
The big question is, could Sean Connery have portrayed him as well as Hopkins?
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ToastedCheese — 3 months ago(December 03, 2025 05:13 AM)
Hopkin’s film is pop culture. Cox’s take is a minor cult film.
No, Connery wasn’t the actor that Hopkins is. Not that Connery wasn’t a commanding presence as an actor, he had his limitations. Like I mentioned, he couldn’t even act with an Irish accent. He just played the role as himself in The Untouchables.
In a year with much better support performances, Connery was middling at best.
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元才 — 3 months ago(December 03, 2025 02:28 PM)
I agree that Hopkins is a much stronger performer across a variety of roles and that he easily bests Connery's attempts at a role like Lecter
But, going on accent alone, we are looking at a mid-Atlantic accent with a Lithuanian lilt, I'm sure Sir Sean could pass for that -
ToastedCheese — 3 months ago(December 06, 2025 02:50 AM)
Perhaps, but I wonder if both Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer regret turning down Lambs.
It works just fine as it is, yet Demme apparently wanted Pfeiffer for Clarice but she didn't want to do it due to the dark subject matter. She then did a dark take on Catwoman a year later and gave one of her best performances.
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