been around for a long time. >> it's legend. do you ever drink chianti? >> if i drank i'd end up in mexico. >> did you ever eat fava beans? >> no. i don't even know what a fava bean is. and i'm not a vegetarian. i don't know what fava beans are. baked beans? >> apparently sales of fava beans just collapsed after that film. what did it do to you, "silence of the lambs," in terms of your acting career? you had a brilliant career before and since but "silence of the lambs" became this stuff of legends. it was one of the greatest terrifying characters ever, wasn't it? >> yeah. i don't know how it happened. i was in london. i was in the theater in london, and i was bored stiff. i'm not a creature of the theater. people say i am, but i wasn't at all. i couldn't fit in with anyone. i couldn't do shakespeare walking around in wrinkled tights for the rest my life, so i wanted to be back in movies. my agent agreed to "silence of