“What’s it like to be young…and female and live in this world?” she asked. Lumet especially saw Clarice as a fresh angle in and of herself because of how male gaze-y the previous features have been. “People are realizing they can use their voices for change…that’s Clarice,” she said.
She thinks Harris remains popular because of how grounded in reality “Lambs” remains the fear of ourselves and our capabilities are what are lasting. In 2021, she said, people are rediscovering who they are after extraordinary circumstances. “I want to know the light and the dark, and the mind, and the heart of this woman, this hero.”
“We spoke about the light in Clarice’s eyes,” she said. Lumet couldn’t let go of the missing years of Clarice’s life, so much so that she “email-stalked” author Thomas Harris. Lumet explains that Clarice Starling became her hero because “she went down into the dark…and pulled out the light.” She believed that the character of Clarice was a woman who held a lot of secrets. And Kurtzman said the show is not looking to mimic the similarly network-based cult favorite “Hannibal.” In “Clarice,” the story breaks will always be organized around their own characters and help them illuminate a struggle: “What are they scared to look at?” Kurtzman asked.
“They have not given us one note,” Kurtzman said. Kurtzman and Lumet originally envisioned this as a streaming show, but CBS told them if they did it on their network they could do whatever they wanted. “We didn’t want to tread territory that’s been done so well by so many others.”ĬBS President Kelly Kahl Exits Network, Amy Reisenbach Named Successor As they were writing the pilot, he and creator Jenny Lumet kept reiterating the tagline that the “silence is over.” “She hasn’t spoken in 30 years and we think it’s time for her to speak now,” Kurtzman said. “It has been explored in great depth by so many brilliant people,” producer Alex Kurtzman said. “It’s about her experiences that was interested in.”īut, more importantly, the crew knew that after three different iterations of the Lecter story, they didn’t want to repeat anything. “The events of ‘Silence’ were a doorway into Clarice,” actor Michael Cudlitz said during Wednesday’s Television Critics Association 2021 Winter Press Tour panel. The cast and crew of CBS’ new crime series “ Clarice” know what you’re going to ask: How does Hannibal Lecter fit into a narrative that takes place one year after the events of Thomas Harris’ “Silence of the Lambs?” The famous cannibal won’t be mentioned in the new series, not just because of well-known and highly convoluted rights issues, but because the new series doesn’t see why they should.
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