Oh, thank you for posting this! I’ve been trying to remember the name of that movie so I could add to this thread! I have the same reaction to him! I’ve never been able to totally shake it, even when I see him doing comedy.
I’m sorry, but Anthony Hopkins will always be Hannibal Lecter to me - I saw him before he did “Silence of the Lambs” in “Elephant Man”, but no matter how many sympathetic characters he plays, he always creeps me out…
I started this thread without really thinking through what I wanted to say and I’m not happy with the outcome of my OP. Some of my grammar was lacking and I got on a tangent about something that was irrelevant to the subject(Flowers in the Attic?). However, I am happy about the responses.
To be more clear, I was thinking of actors I had seen for the first time in bizarre, creepy roles. I used Louise Fletcher because that was the first movie I had seen her in and twent years later I can never see her as anything but evil nurse Ratchid. I don’t feel the same way about Anthony Hopkins or Mark harmon(both excellent serial killer portrayers) because I had known their work from years before.
Oh, another good example is Ted Levine. I had never heard of him before “Silence of the Lambs”, but even when I watch “Monk” and love Capt. Stottlemeyer all I can think is …“It puts the lotion on it’s skin”. Ewww.
MMMkay, everyone continue now.
I keep expecting Ted Levine’s Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk to say. “It rubs the lotion in or it gets the hose again” from Silence of the Lambs.
dammit.
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I keep expecting Ted Levine’s Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk to say. “It rubs the lotion in or it gets the hose again” from Silence of the Lambs.
See, that’s wha’m talkin’ bout.
Is that Good or Bad? 
Me too. 
See post #38.
It’s all good, baby.
Sorry about that.
I gotcha Zoggie but I can’t agree about Juliette since I’ve seen her work as a pre-teen. But yeah, today she kinda scares me. She was so so pretty, and now she looks so harsh. I digress. Carry on.
And apparently, Sampiro beat me to the punch.
Oh, thought of another. The first time I saw Kevin Spacey was in Se7en, so I associated him with serial killers for the longest time.
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Very cute, actually. He used to work at a very cool local repertory theater in SoCal (where I was a student), so I saw him on stage a lot. I was always creeped out by the movie roles he chose.
The actor David Dukes has had a long career, mostly small or one-off parts, but a few featured roles. But to an entire generation of TV watchers he’ll always be the guy who tried to rape Edith Bunker.