Hannibal (film) realized that Zaillian was "exorcising the 600 pages of the book. He was distilling through discussion what he was gonna finally do ... Frankly I could have just made it." It was unclear if Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) and Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) would reprise their respective roles for which they won Academy Awards in "The Silence of the Lambs" (best actress/actor). It became apparent that the producers and the studio could do without one of the original "stars" and would go on to find a replacement. The withdrawal of both Foster and Hopkins could possibly have been terminal for
Michael Foster (agent) campaign. His election agent was Jude Robinson. He was endorsed by his celebrity clients Hugh Grant, Ross Kemp, and Alan Davies. After being selected, Foster tossed his phone across a table during the filming of "Sunday Politics", hitting Conservative MP Sheryll Murray in the wrist; he apologised and said it was not deliberate. His Mebyon Kernow opponent Loveday Jenkin accused Foster of threatening her at a hustings, which he said was untrue. Foster increased the Labour vote, but the Conservative candidate won the seat by 7000 votes. After Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership in 2015, Foster heckled him at