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Moore says "Hannibal" sent her to therapist
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ACTRESS Julianne Moore still has not come to terms with the gruesome aspect of her role opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins in ``Hannibal'', the long-awaited sequel to 1991 thriller ``The Silence of the Lambs'' that opens today.
``Hannibal is the dark side that is part of everyone ... We are socialized, civilized, but in our fantasy lives we explore those themes. That's okay, but it's a fine line I feel uncomfortable with. I don't want to sound as if I'm sitting here rationalizing violence,'' Moore said.
Moore, 40, was paid a 10th of the US$20 million Jodie Foster would have charged to reprise the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling. Foster declined the role because she found it too lurid.
Moore, who also starred in such films as ``The End of the Affair'' ``Boogie Nights'' and ``Magnolia'', said her apprehensions had to do with the nature of the ``Hannibal'' script's violence.
``I am pretty careful about violence, but eventually I came to feel that this story was fable-like. This is a film about good and evil coming up against each other. ... But it's psychologically horrifying,'' she said.(SD-Agencies)
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