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But that would have been an interesting extrapolation to see David Tennant as Hannibal. And I do still have the audition on my laptop, and I watch it from time to time, and wonder what what would it have been like, just because I love David and his acting style. What kind of feedback were you getting from NBC? I think really the reason that it lasted as long as it did, all the credit for that has to go to Jennifer Salke, who was working for [former NBC chairman] Bob Greenblatt, and she was running NBC.

Casting Mads was a challenge. Because I wanted him, the director wanted him, Hugh Dancy wanted him. We all universally knew that he was the right person for the job. But he was sort of this European art-house performer. NBC were trying to kind of counter-cast, in a way. They wanted a lot of folks that were much lighter on their feet. They wanted someone effusive and comedic, and has that level of charm to them to counter all of the evil.

So how did it end up as Mads in the end? And then I brought up Mads Mikkelsen again. But this is how I see the character, and I have to write him, and I have to understand him, and I have to be in the trenches with him. Is it true you actually became a pescatarian because of the show? It was a fascinating confluence of having kidney stones right before we started production, and then doing a lot of research into emotional intelligence and the meat industry.

It became much easier for me to imagine eating human beings who are assholes than it was to eat an innocent animal. You should have a bite. Not to say it is appetizing! Just comparatively! Bedelia was part of my very first meeting with Martha De Laurentiis.

I said, most psychiatrists have a psychiatrist themselves. I just knew I wanted to see Hannibal in a therapy situation. I thought it would be really rich and valuable for the audience, and also to gain a greater perspective of his character. And I wanted more female characters. It was originally something that was written with Angela Lansbury in mind. We we even approached her, and she said the material was too dark. Or a footnote in television history.

Her relationship with Hannibal deepens and parallels the Will relationship in interesting ways. And when we got to the Will and Bedelia scenes, they were just delightful.

Because there were, in a sense, two spurned lovers, sniping at each other over the man that they were obsessed with. That was something that was tantamount to death for me, creatively.

So it was it was very lonely, very isolating. I felt very much like Will Graham in that first season. And then the second season, I got stronger allies, people who understood more clearly what I was trying to do with the show. So how do you feel about the first season now? When we were dealing with the Abigail story and focusing on the soap-opera elements of those families, and the relationship between Will, Hannibal and Abigail, that was when it was the most successful in my mind.

Some of the murders of the week were more procedural than I was comfortable with. And then in Season Two, we did a little bit less of that. We thank [producers] Gaumont and everyone involved in the show for their tireless efforts that have made Hannibal an incredible experience for audiences around the world. The arrival of Hannibal on Netflix in June saw a renewed interest in both the series and the prospect of a possible fourth season, with Fannibals campaigning for Netflix to produce new episodes.

So far, the streamer is yet to comment on the prospect…. Read more: Is Hannibal about to be saved? Though the petition was ultimately unsuccessful — at least, so far — it attracted almost , signatures, with new convertees to the series continuing to sign the Change. The series closed with a bloody face-off between Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham and the serial killer Francis Dolarhyde Richard Armitage — Graham and Lecter work together to overpower and kill Dolarhyde in a clifftop confrontation, with Hannibal satisfied that Will has now become his murderous partner-in-crime.

Faced with the reality of his transformation, Will embraces Hannibal and pulls them both over the edge of the cliff. However, in a post-credits scene, we revisit Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier Gillian Anderson who is sat at a dinner table. She is now missing a leg, which has been cooked and is served on the table — which is set for three. The implication is that Will and Hannibal survived their tumble from the cliff and are paying Bedelia a visit….

Buy Red Dragon now on Amazon. Make more. Another fan tweeted: " [They] should definitely make more episodes. The hunger for this amazing show is still very strong, " while a third said: "They NEED to bring this show back, there's nothing else like it! The Hannibal Lecter actor also discussed his feelings towards the season three finale, which saw Hannibal and Will come together to defeat serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, played by Richard Armitage.

On whether he felt like the show had "unfinished business" following the events of season three, he said: "Unfinished business? Creative showrunners always have a way to end the season because no one knows if there's going to be a next one. So there was always that feeling of, 'Well, that was it.

But the third [season], we were pretty sure. Like this story?