Jodie Foster reveals she was 'scared' Anthony Hopkins while filming cult classic horror movie The Silence Of The Lambs

She played an FBI student working with cannibal Hannibal Lecter in the cult classic horror, The Silence Of The Lambs. 

But as it turns out even Jodie Foster was freaked out by her co-star, Anthony Hopkins, while filming the critically-acclaimed movie.   

While appearing at the SXSW Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas over the weekend, Foster, 56, discussed how scared she was of her Silence Of The Lambs co-star, Anthony Hopkins, the Daily Mail reports, citing IndieWire. 

The 56-year-old actress played FBI student, Clarice Starling, in the 1991 psychological thriller. 

The classic, twisted tale follows the FBI trainee, who's forced to interview convicted cannibal murderer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Hopkins, 81. 

While the film has gone down in movie history since its release in 1991, Foster just revealed that filming it wasn't exactly a walk in the park. 

According to Jodie, the iconic interrogation scenes between Hopkins and herself left the star reeling.

The actress said, 'The movie didn't scare me, but Anthony Hopkins scared me.' 

Apparently, the famous scenes weren't actually filmed face-to-face, because the complicated set design took 20 minutes to get the British actor in and out of his prison cell.