5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Anthony Hopkins delivered enough of a skin-crawling performance in just 25 minutes of screen time that he was able to earn himself an Academy Award for it. The famous unsettling hiss Dr. Hannibal Lecter does to intimidate Jodie Foster’s character was actually something Hopkins did as a joke during rehearsals. The director Jonathan Demme liked it so much that he had Hopkins do it again for the actual shoot.
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