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Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster accidentally went a little method while filming *The Silence of the Lambs*.

Don't worry, the duo didn't get up to anything too nefarious on the set of the iconic 1991 thriller, but much like their characters Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, the actors had some trepidation about the person on the other side of the glass. Hopkins recounted his unusual relationship with costar Jodie Foster — and his immediate connection to Hannibal Lecter — in his new book,* We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir*, shared an excerpt by* The Sunday Times*.

"I knew the character instantly. I instinctively sensed how to play Hannibal," Hopkins wrote of the iconic villain. "I have the devil in me. We all have the devil in us. I know what scares people."

When the time came for the first table read, Hopkins leaned into those devilish instincts. Unfortunately, he "didn't get a chance" to chat with Foster beforehand, so her very first impression of him was in character, embracing the personality of the fictional serial killer.

Anthony Hopkins in 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

"We just flew right into it," Hopkins recalled. "I wanted to show what I could do, so I was as scary as I could be. You could have heard a pin drop in the room. A couple of seconds after I started to speak as Lecter, I saw Jodie grow tense."

The thriller, based on Thomas Harris's 1988 bestseller, sees Hopkins play brilliant psychiatrist and psychotic cannibal Hannibal Lecter, who has been locked up in an institution for the criminally insane. That's where FBI trainee Clarice comes in, visiting the institution to interview Lecter in the hopes of gaining insight into another serial killer known as Buffalo Bill.

"[Foster and I] mostly kept away from each other," Hopkins wrote. "Then, on our last day of shooting, we had lunch. It was freezing cold in Pittsburgh. Jodie put down her sandwich and said she had to confess something: she'd been scared of me."

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Hopkins replied that he was scared of her, too, and the duo laughed it off.

"We had a big hug, and we both admitted to feeling a strange sense of distance during the shoot, due no doubt to the power of that script, which had us playing a cat-and-mouse game," he recalled. "Since then, we've always greeted each other with great warmth."

All of that terrifying energy paid off in the end. *The Silence of the Lambs *was a sleeper hit, grossing more than $270 million worldwide and winning big at the Academy Awards. It remains the only horror film to have won Best Picture, and also snagged Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Hopkins, and Best Actress for Foster.

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As for Foster's side of the story, she previously discussed being afraid of Hopkins during a 2019 Masterclass at SXSW, explaining that many of the techniques used by director Jonathan Demme enhanced the fear that they felt of one another.

"The movie didn't scare me, but Anthony Hopkins scared me," Foster shared. "You'll notice, if you look at the movie again...instead of the person looking at the person off-screen, that the actors are actually looking down the lens. And that means I am there, but way behind the camera, and I'm just a voice; he can't see me. And the same is true on my side."

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She continued, "So when I'm doing scenes with Dr. Lecter, I just hear this disembodied, scary voice, but I don't actually see his face. I have to look into the camera and pretend that he's in the camera."

Foster also pointed out that they were kept physically apart by the set design, explaining that it took 20 minutes to get Hopkins in and out of the complicated bars-and-glass setup protecting Clarice from Hannibal. Fans of the movie know that those bars could hold Hannibal back for only so long, as well.**

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The show's special Halloween edition also features Pam Bondi leading a seance and something called &34;rectoplasm.&34; Stan says South Park 'sucks now' for its 'political s,' ghost of Melania Trump haunts White House in new episode The show's special Halloween edition also features Pam Bondi leading a seance and something called &34;rectoplasm.&34; By Wesley Stenzel :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/WesleyStenzelauthorphoto32b61793a2784639af623f2ae091477e.jpg) Wesley Stenzel is a news writer at . He began writing for EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines on November 1, 2025 3:20 p.m.

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- In* South Park*'s latest episode, Stan says, "South Park sucks now, and it's because of all this political s---."

- The ep also shows the president's wife, Melania Trump — whom he does not recognize — haunting the White House.

- Pam Bondi holds a seance after filing charges against paranormal investigators for "falsifying information" about the president's "rectoplasm."

*South Park* dropped a new episode on Halloween night, getting addressing criticism of its own focus on politics but continuing to lampoon Donald Trump and his allies.

The second episode of season 28, titled "The Woman in the Hat," sees Stan move into his grandfather's nursing home since his father has lost his job in the government shutdown. Fed up with his circumstances, he turns to making broad, sweeping critiques of his hometown and, in a big meta wink, the show itself.

"How many weeks has it been now dealing with one stupid thing after another?" he asks his friends. "The truth is, I think a lot of people are just afraid to admit that South Park sucks now."

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Poking fun at viewers who don't want the show to address contemporary politics, Stan continues, "South Park sucks now, and it's because of all this political s---. We're just getting totally bogged down in it. Remember when *we* used to do stuff? Just us guys? Ever since all this political crap took over, it's like, 'What happened to us?'"

Stan's unhappiness leads him to start a "South Park Sucks Now" movement online, which quickly racks up hundreds of thousands of supporters and prompts him to launch a cryptocurrency meme coin that he and his buddies plan to "pump and dump" to maximize their profits.

As all of Stan's antics unfold, the episode intercuts with a continuation of the show's Trump subplot, which left off with the president expecting a child with his pregnant lover, Satan.

Trump and his giant red bae stand in the wreckage of the White House's East Wing, which, as in real life, is being demolished to make way for a ballroom. Satan expresses his disappointment that the construction project isn't for a nursery for their forthcoming child, as the president supposedly promised.

Advisor Stephen Miller — depicted as a Nosferatu-esque creep — says demolishing the East Wing may have "unleashed some sort of wrath" on Trump and his allies. In the next Trump scene, the president tells his allies about "this thing that keeps appearing," which turns out to be the specter of his wife, Melania Trump, who is sporting a wide-brimmed purple hat obscuring her face akin to the one she wore on her trip to the U.K.

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Trump seems not to recognize his wife. "What does it want?" he asks incredulously after advisors identify the presence as Melania.

Attorney General Pam Bondi also continues to appear throughout the episode with increasingly large brown stains on her nose, suggesting she's, uh, extremely loyal to the president. The mess on Bondi's face is later dubbed "rectoplasm" by paranormal investigators who have arrived to evaluate the ghostly presence. They say their tests have revealed that the substance contains McDonald's, Taco Bell, and the president's semen.

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Bondi indicts the paranormal investigators on federal charges of falsifying data in order to "make fake news." She then goes on to lead a seance to communicate with the mysterious spirit (nobody seems to remember it's Melania) that is attended by a reluctant Kyle Schwartz — Kyle Broflovski's cousin, whom the South Park gang called on to assist them with their crypto scheme and lobby the White House for approval.

At the seance, Bondi announces (perhaps while possessed by a spirit?) that Vice President J.D. Vance is full of "deception" — a reference to his underlying plot with Peter Thiel to stop Satan from birthing Trump's offspring.

Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, Brendan Carr, Donald Trump Jr., J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump depicted on 'South Park'.

Kyle Schwartz, unaware of the dynamics at play, thinks *he's* being accused of deception, and so he comes clean. "It's all true," he says." We've been dealing in deception and lies. We've all been getting filthy rich off of crypto. Oh, Jesus. We've lied and we've cheated. Crypto's just a giant money-laundering scheme for the rich to get richer."

Kyle Schwartz is then indicted after Bondi files charges against him, saying, "We will continue to indict anyone who says bad stuff about our amazing president."

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After the failure of the crypto scheme, the episode concludes with Stan saying remorsefully, "There's no really going back to the way things used to be."

Kyle Broflovski disagrees, perhaps to offer some assurance to *South Park*'s apolitical viewers. "Things will get back, Stan," he says. "I know it's hard to see right now, but things will go back to normal. And in the meantime, we just have to make the most of where we are."

Representatives for the White House, the Justice Department, and Melania Trump did not immediately respond to **'s request for comment.

*South Park* is scheduled to return Nov. 12 on Comedy Central and stream Nov. 13 on Paramount+.

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Britney Spears' recent turbulence on Instagram has come to an end in a surprising way, as the pop star appears to have deleted her account.

The "Lucky" singer's account, which as of Saturday bore the handle @britneyspears and the display name XILA MARIA RIVER RED, now directs to an error page that notes the profile is no longer available.

"The link may be broken, or the profile may have been removed," the blank page now reads, in place of an account that displayed thousands of posts from over 12 years of activity.

It is currently unclear whether Spears personally deleted her own account, or if the social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta enacted a suspension or deletion of her account. * *has reached out to representatives of both parties for comment.

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The deletion of Spears' account comes after publishing several concerning posts, spurred by the publication of a memoir by Kevin Federline, Spears' ex-husband and the father of her two sons.

*You Thought You Knew*, published in late October, recounted the highs and many lows of Federline's turbulent relationship with Spears, which lasted from their meeting and marriage in 2004 to their divorce in 2007. The memoir included a volume of salacious allegations, including Federline's contention that Spears did cocaine while breastfeeding son Jayden, that Spears cheated on him with a female dancer, and that she menaced their children in threatening ways.

Spears took exception to such claims, employing Instagram as her main channel of communication to the public.

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"The constant gaslighting from ex-husband is extremely hurtful and exhausting. I have always pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys... Sadly, they have always witnessed the lack of respect shown by own father for me," Spears wrote in a post cross-shared to X, where it is still live. Spears was routinely reposting messages to the text-based platform owned by Elon Musk, but her last post is dated Oct. 16.

"Trust me, those white lies in that book, they are going straight to the bank and I am the only one who genuinely gets hurt here," she continued. "I speak on this because I have had enough and any real woman would do the same.**

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Other photos, videos, and captions shared to Instagram concerned Spears' 42 million followers. One posted on Oct. 7 showed bruises on Spears' arms and bandages on her hands and wrists. The singer explained that the injuries were sustained from a fall "down the stairs at my friend's house."

On Oct. 19, Spears revealed that she believes she suffered brain damage while under a 13-year conservatorship, and later made a vague allusion to a "lookalike" when addressing a recent video that captured her driving erratically in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks.****

Spears released her own memoir, *The Woman in Me*, in 2023. The book is currently being developed as a film from *Wicked *director Jon M. Chu.

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Hi all — welcome to the *SNL* in Review recap extravaganza. The show has returned and tonight is hosted by Miles Teller. It's his second time. Fans will remember he kicked off season 48.

I am joined this evening by former *Saturday Night Live* cast member Aristotle Athari, who has a new movie out. *The French Italian* is streaming now on Apple and Amazon. "I had a blast making it," says Athari. "Honestly, I don't know how we got through it because we were cracking up the entire time, mostly thanks to Ruby [McCollister] and Cat [Cohen]. I'm still shocked they managed to edit together a full movie with how many takes we ruined laughing."

Teller's second *SNL* gig is in advance of his new romantic comedy/fantasy film, *Eternity*, hitting theaters on Nov. 26. Last time he hosted, he was riding the wild success of* Top Gun: Maverick*.

Brandi Carlile is also back making her fourth *SNL* appearance.

There are on-the-ground reports about relatively short standby lines outside of 30 Rock for this one — let's hope that does not suggest there will be a low-energy audience tonight!**

It's Spectrum NY1, the region's "number five news station." It's the final and fictional NYC mayoral debate. Brought to you by… bike lanes!

It's two viable candidates and one classic New York nut. Teller portrays the disgraced Andrew Cuomo. In a bit of stunt casting, Ramy Youssef plays Zohran Mamdani, while Shane Gillis plays Curtis Sliwa. No applause for Shane, curiously. And no cast members present in this sketch besides Kenan Thompson, who notes he is playing the least famous person ever impersonated on the show. Kenan shames Mamdani for his TikTokkery and being a nerd and Youssef calls out the candidate relying on white guilt driving his support.

James Austin Johnson's Trump takes over with a soliloquy that ends with a number out of *Phantom of the Opera*. Inspired!

Cuomo was previously played by Pete Davidson on the show. Kam Patterson replaces Devon Walker as Mayor Eric Adams.

Teller dances out onto the stage and talks about how he used to dress as *SNL *characters like the Night at the Roxbury guys growing up. He moved around a lot as a kid — and movingly describes why 8H feels like home to him. It's pretty breezy, but Teller is charming and funny. He also opens up about losing his home in the Pacific Palisades fire in January.

"A lot has happened since the last time that I hosted," says Teller. "A few months ago, my wife and I lost our house in the Palisades fire. But don't worry, seriously do not worry, we're doing great. That experience has made me incredibly grateful to have so many places that I can call home... but based on what happened to the last place that I called home, I just want to say there's fire exits located there, there, there..."

"Teller's always had strong comedic instincts," notes Athari. "You can see the timing behind his eyes."

"Hungover Halloween Game Show"

Gay Fopay (Thompson) welcomes us back to a game show about being extremely hungover. (Big Kenan episode so far!) Teller, Ben Marshall, and Veronika Slowikowska are the miserable contestants who must guess what they did the night before. If they answer incorrectly, a wicked punishment awaits.

"White House Makeover"

The twins are renovating the East Wing of the White House. We get our second appearance of Johnson's Trump — brilliant, depressing stuff. Teller is really funny as Drew and Jonathan Scott. Watch this! I loved it.

Chloe Fineman takes over as Melania here, following Paris Hilton way back in 2005 (pre first lady duties!) and more famously by Cecily Strong from 2015 to 2019.

FYI —the Property Brothers made a surprise appearance during the first show of 2023 in season 48 as judges during the Miss Universe sketch alongside Tony Hawk.**

"Hockey PSA"

Players from the Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers are reading promos for their charity work. The Kings and Rangers players make playful puns in their scripts about being kings and rangers in their community. Teller plays the Predator and, well, he has an issue saying he works in hospitals making sick kids feel touched. And visiting Thailand, so hopefully he can "rub off on some kids" so they become Predators too.

Ashley Padilla and Andrew Dismukes are great as the vain directors.

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"Missing Wives Docuseries"

Three men have lost their wive — and their story is told in Netflix's* Gone Without a Trace.*

This is a gentle premise about silly, clueless husbands — the wives weren't really gone. They had plans, or in the case of Sarah Sherman's wife, went to the bathroom. ****

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"Newsroom"

Daphne Dodd (Fineman) and economist P.L. Henry (Thompson) are discussing world news in a renovated studio. Mikey Day walks by in the background of the new set and crashes into the wall. We observe the embarrassing background activities of the workers in contrast with the serious topics being discussed — inflation, etc. "Put up a wall, stat!"**

Brandi Carlile performs "Church & State"

This is a fiery, political song — almost has a Neil Young vibe, to me. In fact, Carlile conceived the song last November, on the day of the election. She's called it carnal and "a primal cry for self-preservation in a way, and not just for me, for everybody."

Carlile made her musical guest debut during the Halloween-themed show during season 47, hosted by Jason Sudeikis. She performed "Broken Horses" and "Right on Time." Athari shares, "That was one of my favorite performances, I remember it well."

Weekend Update

Colin Jost talks about the White House Halloween and how genuinely weird Trump is.

Michael Che posted a moving message on his Instagram earlier today — an out-of-character note about his history with SNAP and the insanity around denying benefits to people during the government shutdown. Here, he makes a blistering joke about the Second Amendment.

This weekend is the New York Marathon… and George Santos is here to discuss it! Yes, it's the return of Bowen Yang's impression of the pathological liar disgraced congressman, recently pardoned by Trump. "Give me back my angels!" shouts Jost, after Santos steals his wallet revealing he has pictures of all the female cast members in his wallet. Santos reveals he recently robbed the jewels from the Louvre. "Diddy, miss you too, roomie." (In a nice touch, Santos holds up a hat of the Dodgers — who literally just won the World Series moments ago!)

The government shutdown has entered day 32. Two people who just hooked up (Padilla, Dismukes) come on to discuss it. They can't help but interrupt what they are talking about to gaze into one another's eyes. It's still the meet cute. They recount hooking up in Colin's dressing room. Great stuff, and nice to see the two of them reunited so soon after the NHL promo sketch.

Murder Press Briefing

The Steak Knife slasher is on the loose. The police department is having a press conference, but the lead detective (Teller) can't comment on the details of the case.

Dismukes is funny as one of the journalists, Dave Allen, he's the author of *Gar-Girl*, a rejected graphic novel. Slowly, he takes over the conference: "Dave Allen, voice of a generation." Again, Padilla has a big moment. Good stuff!**

Brandi Carlile performs "Human"

"Human" was co-produced by Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. Another strong one.

Carlile only last appeared on *SNL* in April, when she performed alongside Elton John to promote their collaborative album *Who Believes in Angels?.*

"Italian Restaurant Date"

We're in the best Italian restaurant in Nebraska. Oh God, pasta puns. Two waiters played by Teller and Marcello Hernandez are broad cartoons, like modern ancestors of the Pepper Boy sketch. Or rather the overly affectionate staff from the Il Cantore sketch back in 1991. Mostly a mess though Miles is game.

Final thoughts

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- Thank you to Aristotle Athari! Go stream *The French Italian*! I asked him if the experience at 8H prepared him for projects like this. Athari says yes, though he has only realized it "in hindsight. I'll be on a set and suddenly catch myself using something I learned at *SNL *without even thinking about it. The lessons keep popping up in real time. Like, one of the biggest things the show taught me was how to write every single day whether I want to or not. That habit has stuck with me and it's been huge especially while working on this new feature I'm writing with Dan Curry from *The Eric André Show* called *Good Night Baby*. That adaptability has been huge for me."

- Check out this story I did on the history of late-night TV horror hosts, and their link to *SNL*'s* *rise! I enjoyed doing it for Halloween. Spooky content!

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*Saturday Night Live *continues to skate on thin ice, where President Donald Trump is concerned, given his recent hostility toward late-night TV.

On Saturday's "Weekend Update" segment, cohost Colin Jost teed up a seemingly innocent joke about the President and his wife, Melania Trump, walking out to the White House's Halloween festivities to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" — only to deliver a brutal punchline.

"My favorite part is when Trump and Melania made a grand entrance to this song: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,'" Jost noted, laughing at the subsequent clip of POTUS and FLOTUS's trumpet-aided arrival. "Just the perfect soundtrack to lure kids to a famous mansion."

The audience clapped and laughed at the latest spectacle from the White House — then Jost's joke clearly sank in. Groans overrode the laughs as the studio audience connected the dots between the former *Apprentice *host and the late pop legend.

Jackson was at the height of his fame in 1993 when the first allegations of child sexual abuse first fell upon him. Dentist Evan Chandler accused the "Bad" singer of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son, allegations amplified (and then retracted) by Jackson's sister LaToya. Though Jackson and the Chandlers settled the following year, a decade later, Jackson would be hit with seven more counts of child sexual abuse and stand trial for his alleged crimes.

Though Trump has not been personally accused of child sexual abuse, his long-standing affiliation with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein continues to dog his second term in office. Following allegations of rape, sexual assault, and harassment from at least 25 women over the past 50 years, and losing a sexual abuse civil case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, Trump has now repeatedly been asked to explain his public, decades-long, well-documented friendship to Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking of minors before hie died in jail in 2019.

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Trump recently filed a $10 billion defamation suit against *The Wall Street Journal *for revealing the contents of a birthday card he allegedly sent Epstein in 2003. A copy of the card eventually released by Congress shows a sort of poem contained within a drawing of a silhouette of a woman's naked body.

"Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?" the card's message reads, before concluding, "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret."

The president denied the card existed before it was released, then denied he authored the card, telling the *Journal*, "I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women."****

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Nov. 1's "Weekend Update" also contained some edgy Trump jokes from Jost's cohost Michael Che.

"Critics of President Trump are calling him tone deaf for posting pictures of his newly renovated White House bathroom during the government shutdown," Che quipped. "But I'm happy that the floor looks slippery!"

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Published: November 03, 2025 at 05:57AM on Source: LEX MAG

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