I Taught Jodie Foster How to Confront Hannibal Lecter

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Often the lone woman in any FBI office or department, Jana Monroe used her own experience to advise the star of “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Published Oct. 6 2023 11:56PM EDT

A photo including Jodie Foster in the film The Silence of the Lambs — Alamy

Hannibal Lecter came to broad public attention with The Silence of the Lambs, both the 1988 novel and the 1991 film, but Thomas Harris had been refining Hannibal ever since he first appeared in his novel Red Dragon in 1981, and he continued to fill in his backstory through another...

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I Taught Jodie Foster How to Confront Hannibal Lecter

Often the lone woman in any FBI office or department, Jana Monroe used her own experience to advise the star of “The Silence of the Lambs.”

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Jana Monroe