--- --- # Watch Uzo Aduba Give an Eerie Performance of Hannibal Lecter in _The Silence of the Lambs_ ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 11, 2015 6:09 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 11, 2015 6:09 PM UTC A new video series shows actresses reimagining iconic roles originally played by men. _Glamour_‘s [Role Reversal](http://video.glamour.com/) allows female stars to show their versatility by performing influential film scenes popularized by male characters. In one of the first episodes, released on Thursday, _Orange is the New Black_ star [Uzo Aduba](http://time.com/4054308/uzo-aduba-tituss-burgess-dascha-polanco-diversity-television/) takes on Anthony Hopkins’s maniacal serial killer Hannibal Lecter from _The Silence of the Lambs_. Aduba delivers Lector’s [infamous “rube” monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVqIISyp60) so convincingly that it’s hard to remember Hopkin’s now-iconic portrayal of the character. Watch other clips, featuring Abigail Breslin as Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden from _Fight Club_ and Julia Garner as Daniel Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview from _There Will Be Blood_, below. Uzo Aduba as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/"},"headline":"Watch Uzo Aduba Give an Eerie Performance of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs","datePublished":"2015-12-11T18:09:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:58.022Z","description":"It will creep you out","url":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Actors","actresses"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/","name":"Watch Uzo Aduba Give an Eerie Performance of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/tfrXo5zL/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-12T15:57:58.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/","duration":"PT5M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4145858/uzo-aduba-eerie-performance-of-hannibal-lecter-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```