Morgan Freeman as Lecter?!?
I read somewhere on the Ebert site that Morgan Freeman wanted to play Hannibal Lecter any truth to this?
shareI read somewhere on the Ebert site that Morgan Freeman wanted to play Hannibal Lecter any truth to this?
shareThat's news to me. But I know that Louis Gosset Jr. was considered for the role in the early stages of development. The producers abandoned that idea because they had 2nd thoughts about portraying a black man as a cannibal. So we never got to see "Sgt. Foley" berating Jodie Foster for being a 'country hick pretending to be a grown-up FBI agent" (or however that would have played out).
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