Clarice Starling Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but he overpowers her and she handcuffs both of them to the refrigerator in an attempt to keep him in the house before the imminent arrival of the police. Lecter then cuts off his own hand and escapes, leaving Starling to explain the situation to the police. He is later seen on a plane, apparently fleeing the country again. Although she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs", Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her role in "Hannibal". Julianne Moore portrayed the character in the sequel,
Jodie Foster now." Although she was publicly lauded for her choice to become a director, many reviewers felt that the film itself did not live up to the high expectations, and regarded it as "less adventurous than many films in which [she] had starred". Regardless, it was a moderate box office success. Foster's final film appearance of the year came in a small role as a prostitute in "Shadows and Fog" (1991), directed by Woody Allen, with whom she had wanted to collaborate since the 1970s. The following year, Foster founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, a subsidiary of PolyGram Filmed