Francis is somebody who is so uncomfortable in his skin; he’s trying to shed his skin and writhing around inside his own body really, trying to escape.Yes. I think it’s an attempt on Harris’ part to make us really look at the paths that are taken by human beings to drive them to such dark places.It’s a fictional character, but at the same time, as human beings it's easy to make a judgment on somebody. He didn't self-consciously know he was doing a heroic thing, he just understood that it would mean something to her and he wanted to rock her world. In this rare instance, this man has turned into a monster. With just six episodes to go before When the action picks up with Saturday's "The Great Red Dragon," the timeline has jumped noticeably forward. But and in a way that was quite helpful to the character because he has separated himself from his own crimes. It’s a little bit of a lottery as to what luck you’re born into and what kind of life is offered to you. We are all born equal and children are nurtured in a certain way. There’s a real self-awareness in this character, an understanding of what he is and what he’s done. Yes, we must judge their crimes, but it’s also important to understand what it is that brings people to that place. But I see when they meet in the imaginary world that Fuller creates, there is a sense of a boy in therapy with Hannibal, and he really is looking to him for salvation. Will is now married, Hannibal has worked out a sweet deal for himself and there's a new big bad in town — Francis Dolarhyde, aka The Tooth Fairy and The Red DragonThe character, who is perhaps the most recognizable villain from the To get the lowdown on what Dolarhyde brings to the table, what it's like to step into those scaly shoes and how he'll change things up with the Hannibal-Will Graham dynamic, Thomas Harris described him as a body builder, which I feel was useful to an extent, but I didn’t feel the character had any kind of vanity toward himself. There’s a thrill, but there’s also an abhorrence at himself, which is fascinating to study.It’s one of the marvelous moments in the book where you just can’t quite imagine a man who has such a lack of empathy and can commit a crime but is also so romantic that he takes a blind girl to the zoo to experience a tiger. Richard Armitage previews "disturbing" new monster. To sort of have a central experience and to touch the sleeping tiger is—  it’s quite a marvelous moment in the book and to film it was the same, really. I studied Bryan’s script for 308, but I also looked at the novel that Harris created and I was specific about whether we would see Frances committing those crimes. But it’s actually not for personal gain, it’s to move her.Hannibal is probably Dolarhyde’s idol; he’s studied him in the newspapers, he’s somebody that he aspires to be, and there’s a kind of mentor factor to it and a competitiveness. The Hollywood Reporter is part of MRC Media & Info, a division of MRC. We really meet the man first before we find out what he’s done and we see him struggling with himself; we see him falling in love. Will is now married, Hannibal has worked out a sweet deal for himself and there's a new big bad in town — Francis Dolarhyde, aka The Tooth Fairy and The Red Dragon (played by Richard Armitage). He sort of becomes a pawn in between these two players. Fannibals are officially entering a new chapter. I went to a Japanese art form called Butoh, which is a biological exploration of the body. Will is trying to save Dolarhyde from a terrible fate, while Hannibal is really pushing him toward the edge to get him to kill again and really using Dolarhyde as a tool against Will.