Fun things from the Hannibal episode commentaries:
- Pilot: [talking about how there was a cat and the director was deathly allergic] David Slade (Director): Does there have to be a cat? Hugh Dancy: It doesn’t have the same effect if it is an armadillo.
- Hugh Dancy: Here, very much like a vampire, Hannibal has to ask permission to cross the threshold. Bryan Fuller: [to the audience] Don’t go to crazy with that. Hugh: Right, it’s just there in the background.
- Hugh Dancy: I really wanted to make sure we had Will wearing glasses so we could cover them with blood, cause that’s fun.
- David Slade: That shot of the man-stag, we had seven or eight good shots and the last one then it’s antlers snapped off. Hugh Dancy: And that was a wrap.
- Bryan Fuller: It was originally supposed to be a finger, but fingers are harder to vomit up than ears, in my experience.
- Will Graham: I thought I would get better. Hugh Dancy: Not a good plan there Will.
- David Slade: We considered having a reoccurring segment, of Alana in different cars - Hugh Dancy: A weekly segment, every episode. David Slade: Yeah, just Alana in different cars with different music, losing her shit.
- Hugh Dancy: I always thought that was a pun. Bryan Fuller: “I never considered having a child”? Hugh Dancy: To eat. *laughter from Bryan* I just thought it was a pun for the longest time.
- David Slade: Bedelia lives in a crazy house. This room has a ridiculous ceiling, but it is a ceiling we never see it. It’s like a wooden Death Star. Hugh Dancy: Death Star: the early version.
- Bryan Fuller: [for the second time] I want the action figure of that man. [referencing the stag-man]