Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster stayed away from each other on the set of The Silence of the Lambs.

The 87-year-old star won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 movie and revealed that Jodie, who played FBI trainee Clarice Starling, kept her distance during the making of the movie because she was "scared" of him.

Hopkins writes in his new memoir We Did OK, Kid: "(Foster and I) mostly kept away from each other. Then, on our last day of shooting, we had lunch. It was freezing cold in Pittsburgh. Jodie put down her sandwich and said she had to confess something: she'd been scared of me."

The Welsh actor said that he was scared of Foster as well as the pair made light of their isolation.

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