Jodie Foster addresses comparisons between Silence of the Lambs' Clarice and her True Detective role
Jodie Foster doesn't think her True Detective and The Silence of the Lambs characters have anything in common – but the show isn't shying away from comparisons.
In the new 2024 preview issue of Total Film, which hits shelves this week, Foster says her True Detective role is "a long way from Clarice." She adds: "Clarice is all about the ethics and she’s quiet and reserved and always doing the right thing, and that is not Danvers. I kind of hope Clarice never got this cynical."
The fourth season of True Detective, subtitled Night Country, takes place in the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska. Foster plays Detective Liz Danvers, who is tasked with investigating the disappearance of eight men from a research station. Foster's arguably most notable role is that of FBI agent Clarice Starling in the Academy Award-winning thriller The Silence of the Lambs. Clarice, still technically a trainee in the FBI Academy, is assigned to interview the incarcerated Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a highly intelligent former psychiatrist and cannibal serial killer. Foster took home the Oscar for Best Actress.
Addressing the comparisons, showrunner Issa López adds of Clarice: "It’s just one of these characters. All the lines of that movie just live in my skull. We know the lines, we know the moments, we know the images. And there’s a direct line, I think… The Silence of the Lambs mothered [David Fincher’s serial killer chiller] Se7en, and Se7en mothered True Detective. And this is the child of True Detective. So there’s a direct line. That’s why I went directly to the source. And we’re not shying away from it."
López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) also shares how she received a message from HBO’s Francesca Orsi, asking her to figure out a way to recapture the
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