How Hannibal Became A Major LGBTQ+ & Feminist Landmark Explained By Star

Hannibal star Caroline Dhavernas explains how the show became a feminist and LBGTQ+ landmark with its strong female and queer characters. Hannibal is a psychological horror series created by Bryan Fuller that ran for three seasons beginning in 2013. The critically acclaimed series was based on Thomas Harris' Hannibal novels and sees Mads Mikkelsen take on the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In an interview with Screen Rant, Dhavernas detailed how Hannibal came to offer such a strong representation of women and the LGBTQ+ community. She revealed that accurate representation of women was something that Fuller was concerned about from the beginning. While the Hannibal books by Harris do feature women, the most prominent ones were victims of abuse or Lecter's love interests.

"During the recording of an audio commentary in L.A, Bryan mentioned he wanted to create a love interest for Margot Verger in season 3, and I said: “I’ll do it”. Katherine Isabelle is a very cool human, it was easy. At the very beginning of the show, Bryan told me we wanted to make sure the female characters weren’t only the victims, that is why Alan Bloom from the books became Alana Bloom, and why Freddie Lounds became a woman as well.

For example, Freddie undergoes quite a dramatic transformation in Hannibal. Instead of being the annoying buck-toothed, rat-eyed egotistical, and unethical journalist he was in the Hannibal Lecter books, Chorostecki reinvented him as a sophisticated, skilled, and deeply intelligent female journalist who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Hannibal further hones in on authentic LGBTQ+ representation by exploring two very different kinds of LGBTQ+ relationships. First, there is the relationship between Verger and Bloom, which is explicitly confirmed in the series. However, the show also probes the more subtle relationship between Lecter and Graham. While their relationship is rather ambiguous, it cannot be denied that the two share an intense and very intimate connection with each other.

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