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TIL other actors considered for Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs included Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Forest Whitaker. When Anthony Hopkins was offered the role by his agent, he mistakenly thought it was a family film and asked, "Is it a children's story?"

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