Actor Harvey Keitel (seen here as the eighth incarnation of Jack Crawford - the other seven actors having deceased or passing on the part, labelling it “cursed”) had never seen The Silence of the Lambs prior to signing on to 2002’s Red Dragon. Director Brett Ratner decided to hide as many plot points from Keitel as possible in order to keep his performance authentic, going so far as to forbid Keitel from seeing a finished script. The rest of the cast were baffled as to why Ratner went to such pains over a relatively minor character (Keitel’s character is only onscreen for a total of eight minutes).