Finding the right actor to play Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) trainee Clarice Starling in the 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs" was always going to be a challenge. Directed by Jonathan Demme and based on the Thomas Harris novel of the same name, "The Silence of the Lambs" was a disturbing story about serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) helping the FBI to hunt another serial killer on the loose called "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine). Initially Demme approached Michelle Pfeiffer to play Clarice , as she had starred in his film "Married to the Mob," but she turned it down because she felt the movie was, as a whole, too "evil."

Enter Jodie Foster, an incredible performer who knew a thing or two about starring in difficult roles, having portrayed a teenage sex worker in M

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