"Her next screen role was in James Ivory's The Remains of the Day, a movie that reunited her with Anthony Hopkins onscreen. Thompson's mother sent Hopkins a note asking that he not "eat her," considering that he had just starred as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs prior to shooting Howards End" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emma-thompson-charms-ba...