



This interview really is a delicious treat for all fans of Hannibal and Hannigram! See below for the choicest Hannigram tidbits:
‘Where we left Will and Hannibal at the cliff and this power tenderness and intimacy that they are experiencing in that moment - that feels like it’s a launchpad. And so I don’t think we can pull back where that is, but we have to continue the trajectory and continue that level of intimate exploration between these two men. And their queer love story, their queer blurring of identities… It’s not so much an evolution as it is an extrapolation of what was intended for Season 4… If you liked the trajectory, you’re going to love where it’s going.’
‘It does become more intimate, and I do see pathways of expressing that intimacy in ways that the Fannibal family will feel validated by.’
‘Whatever is beautiful is what [Hannibal’s] attracted to. And [Mads] ungenders Hannibal’s attraction… He’s Hannibal. He’s genderless. He is manifesting in this form in a way that the devil has chosen… And I think Will’s state of mind in Season 4 is conducive to a greater fluidity than his state of mind in the previous seasons.’
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‘Do Will and Hannibal end up together?… kiss… die… love each other… kill together… date… Hopefully all of the above.’
‘There’s something about the transportation of a kiss… I feel like [on the bluff] their lips lingered so long, hovering above each other, that… I don’t think we can roll that back. I don’t think that’s authentic. I don’t think it’s realistic for two people to get to that moment, and if their story is continuing, to ignore that from happening. I can see versions of suppression. But, as we all know, anything you suppress is just going to erupt louder and harder.’
‘The arc of their intimacy is continuing on an upward trajectory.’
Summing up Season 4… ‘Lurid erotic intimacy.’
hannibal s2e10 naka-choko dvd commentary with bryan fuller and caroline dhavernas
The intimacy and the sweetness between them and then how they just destroy each other and get back to being sweet again.
Caroline on Will and Hannibal’s relationship
Hannibal 3.07 Digestivo
We used to talk a lot [about this scene] because there were always versions of these separations where Hannibal….[trails off] and we were both always on the same page with this. You just never liked the idea that they ever got into a fight. The idea with Will having to physically restrain Hannibal or vice versa just always felt artificial. They would never go there. Which is why when they finally get into a fight at the end it’s together with Dolarhyde. It’s sort of so perfect. The quietness of their arguments betray how deeply they feel about each other. - creator Bryan Fuller and executive producer Steve Lightfoot, Digestivo audio commentary
‘I love when a story and when characters tell you who they are and what they want to be. That was absolutely the case with Hannibal and Will, is that those characters and their story told us that they were in love.’
When would your showrunner ever…?
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Brian Reitzell saving the day again with Siouxsie Sioux and Love Crime
[…] Siouxsie was a big fan of the show so that was great, she was already sort of in tune with what was going on with the show and she asked if Bryan Fuller would give her some information about what the season was going to be likeand he said it was a love story, so she came up with you know, the lyrics to Love Crime. - Brian Reitzell
We laid it down on the fight sequence and everything just kind came together as if it was always designed that way, but I was terrified of that last act of the show because I knew, very likely, it was the last act of the series and I was so heartbroken that we weren’t able to pull it off in terms of production but it came together miraculously, despite lots of obstacles. - Bryan Fuller