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There’s plenty of compelling moments in the 30-minute chat. Hopkins, for example, recalls telling his agent that Hannibal Lecter was “the best part I’ve ever read.” The giddiness he felt upon pleasing director Jonathan Demme is also palpable. “I was naturally nervous, an Englishman—a limey like me, a Welshman—playing an American serial killer,” he says. “And I remember Jonathan, when the camera picked me up, he said, ‘Oh, my God. That’s it. Hopkins. You’re so weird!’ And I said, ‘Why, thank you.’” He and Foster also discuss his supremely eerie choice to stand perfectly still in his cell when Foster’s Clarice first arrives, a choice Hopkins says he offered up himself.