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" Jeremy Irons has said that he does not regret turning down the role of Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs. The actor told The Daily Telegraph that he was happy that he rejected the part in the 1991 movie, which eventually won Anthony Hopkins an Oscar. Irons said: &amp;quot;I like doing edgy things, but at the time I had just done Dead Ringers and was about to star in Reversal of Fortune. &amp;quot;I thought I just can&amp;#039;t do it; I&amp;#039;m already too far down this road. And when I saw what Tony Hopkins had done, I thought, thank Christ I didn&amp;#039;t do it.&amp;quot; Of his acting career, he added: &amp;quot;All right, some things have been admired. You think, okay, but I&amp;#039;m not that great. Filmwise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m also conscious that I&amp;#039;m in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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