Actress Jodie Foster has had a very illustrious career, but many still link her to her Oscar-winning role of Agent Clarice Starling from Jonathan Demme‘s 1991 seminal serial killer thriller “The Silence of the Lambs,” that reintroduced audiences to the iconic Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins also winning an Oscar statue for putting his own spin on Lecter after Michael Mann‘s “Manhunter” had Brian Cox play him first in the 1980s).
In a new in-depth career exploration with Variety, she’s now musing on where Agent Starling would be 40 years out from the events of the film.
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“Let’s just say she stayed in the FBI. She’s spent 40 years in the FBI: What has she seen, and what has that culture taught her, and what is the culture now? Would she have adopted the FBI, judgy, tough on crime, or would she have grown out of it and become something else? Or would she be the person who changed the FBI and said, We’re not going to do it the old way?” Foster told Variety while promoting her new feature, “A Private Life,” coming to theaters on January 16.
It is quite an interesting thought shared by Foster. Although you may remember that she would pass on reprising Starling for the Ridley Scott-directed “Hannibal,” as Julianne Moore would take on the FBI Agent role in the mostly forgotten and maligned sequel.
But, we can’t help but imagine what a 40-year later follow-up could actually look like (Starling tackling cults and deranged militias stockpiling illegal weapons? Or more serial killer cases?), potentially with her “Panic Room” director David Fincher helping out after his own dabbling into the world of the FBI/serial killers with the acclaimed Netflix show “Mindhunter.”
Then again, maybe that ship has fully sailed, as her work on HBO‘s “True Detective: Night Country” could have scratched that itch for Foster playing a veteran but world-weary small-town cop.
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