Conan O'Brien

Yeah.

I've been doing this a long time.

You know, I have to bring up, many people consider it a perfect movie.

I know I do, but Silence of the Lambs is just perfect in so many ways.

The storytelling, and I think really revolutionary because there are about nine things that I see in Silence of the Lambs that now regularly occur in television movies.

Ringing the bell.

You think it's to one house.

The door opens.

It's not that house.

When I saw that movie for the first time in a theater, I was just completely spellbound.

And obviously your performance, a massive part of that.

And what I'm thinking about is...

In that moment, this felt very revolutionary because Clarice is put in this very deep water.

And there are also scenes where she's in a very male experience.

There are all these men in the room examining the body, doing the postmortem.

And you need to navigate that.

And I feel like that is a watershed performance that's defining, but really defining women in a job that's always been depicted as a male job.

Up until that point, obviously the script has flipped since then, but I don't know if young people realize how at the time that was, we hadn't seen, I don't remember seeing anything remotely like that.

On Silence of the Lambs.

Yes.