Jodie Foster opens up on her time working with Anthony Hopkins

JODIE Foster has opened up on her time with Sir Anthony Hopkins during the filming of The Silence of the Lambs saying she was happy when it was over.

JODIE Foster has opened up about her time with Sir Anthony Hopkins during the filming of Silence Of The Lambs, confessing she couldn’t wait until it was over.

During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the 53-year-old actor revealed she was so “petrified” of her award-winning co-star that she didn’t speak to him once on set.

“The first day we had a read through and by the end of it I never wanted to talk to him again — I was petrified.” Picture: Supplied.

Foster said she was left traumatised by Hopkins’ spinechilling performance in the 1991 thriller, which focuses on psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

“I never spoke to him because he was so scary,” she said.

“We got to the end of the movie and really had never had a conversation.”

Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins poses with Actress Jodie Foster at the ceremony where he was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003. Picture: Splash.

Actors Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster holding their Oscars in Press Room at Academy Awards. Picture: Getty.

In character, Foster said of Hopkins: “I actually avoided him but on the last day he came up to me and I said, with tears in my eyes, how scared I was of him and he said, ‘But, I was scared of you!”’

Foster, who premiered her new film Money Monster this week, was joined by a host of A-list guests Elton John, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Greg Davies and Tom Daley on the red sofa.

Foster first appeared on screen as a child star in Taxi Driver: “I was 12 years old,” she recalled. “But I had done more movies than anyone else at that point.”