Name: Jodie Foster: "Silence Of The Lambs" Crew Had Hawaiian Shirt Fridays | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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But Silence of the Lambs is just perfect in so many ways.

The storytelling and I think really revolutionary because there are about nine things that I see in Silence of the Lambs that now regularly occur in television movies.

You think it's to one house, the door opens.

When I saw that movie for the first time in a theater, I was just completely spellbound.

And obviously your performance a massive part of that.

And what I'm thinking about is in that moment, this felt very revolutionary because Clarice is put in this very deep water.

And there are also scenes where she's in a very male experience.

There are all these men in the room examining the body, doing the post mortem.

And I feel like that is a watershed performance that's defining.

But really defining women in a job that's always been depicted as a male job up until that point.

Obviously the script has flipped since then, but

I don't know if young people realize how at the time that was, we hadn't seen.

I don't remember seeing anything remotely like that.

It really, really tread over stuff that hadn't been thought about before.

And mostly it was just like the hero's journey was reserved for men.

And so it was a new thing to have a woman participate in what was a tragic.

It just was one of those perfect texts and it doesn't happen very often in your life.

So I would say Silence of Lambs for me, and

potentially for me, True Detective might have been the two greatest experiences that I've had working where you get a piece of material that is, I don't wanna say inspired by the gods, but

there's something happening in this material where it's just talking about something so true and.

And so mixed up with our own collective unconscious that it's undeniable.

And then everybody that climbs aboard does the best work of their life effortlessly.

So when it does happen, you really have to be jumping up for joy.

Cause when it happens, it's so easy and so much fun.

We had Aloha Fridays where everybody wore Hawaiian shirts on Fridays.

Yeah, it was actually a lot of fun on Silence of the Lamb.

We're throwing people into a pit who've been kidnapped.

I also think one of the most, I think it's one of the greatest depictions of what bravery really is.

The climax of the movie, when you are working your way through the pitch dark last day of shooting.

So such a bad, it was such a bad last day of shooting.

And you can, in some scenes you can see you're wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

You're like, is that a Hawaiian shirt on?

And what I, what meant a lot to me and still resonates with me about that scene is there are a lot of scenes where the hero, and

often the male hero is traditionally doing the brave thing.

And I love Clint Eastwood, don't get me the wrong way, but

they're doing the brave thing and they're doing it in a kick ass male way.

And the combination of the two, it's completely believable.

There's not one millisecond where I don't completely believe that that's what you're doing.

But you are terrified every second and you're making yourself push forward.

And I think that is one of the best film cinematic depictions of real bravery I've ever seen.

I'm gonna get in there, get outta my way.

And that doesn't read to me the same way.

there's a big laugh in the scene where she finally gets to the woman in the pit and she says, like, you're safe.

And the whole audience just like laughs hysterically.

And then she curses you out when you leave.

I don't think I'm ever gonna see you again.

Yeah, because it's honest, you know, because it was really true and that there wasn't a bunch of posing about it.

And so that's, I think, a good example of saying, you know, what do you pick in that moment?

Well, you don't listen to a list of like, whoa, what did Clint Eastwood do in his movie?

I think you really, you say to yourself, you know, who would I be if this happened?

And you follow honesty and instinct, and hopefully that's really the only God that you pray to.