Kim Kardashian has officially entered the chat after actor Anthony Hopkins playfully teased her last week over her new face shapewear, which has been causing a stir online.
After Kardashian’s shapewear and clothing company, Skims, released new face shapewear in beige and brown, social media users started comparing it to the mask Hopkins once wore as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Joining in on the internet’s chatter, Hopkins posted a video of himself on July 31 wearing one of the reality star’s beige face shapewear wraps.
Mimicking Lecter’s chilling voice, the actor addressed Kardashian directly in a deadpan demeanor.
“Hello Kim, I’m already feeling 10 years younger,” he said before recreating the murderer’s signature slurping sound from the 1991 horror classic.
“Thank you, Kim. Don’t be afraid to come over for dinner,” Hopkins captioned the video, again referencing his human flesh-devouring character.
Hopkins’ post quickly went viral, amassing more than 1 million likes as of this writing.
Kardashian responded to the actor by reposting his video on her Instagram Stories and writing, “I’M SCREAMING!!!!!”
The mom of four also appeared to make light of the criticism she’s received for the face shapewear by reposting a Daily Mail article that highlighted fans’ comparisons of the Skims product to Lecter’s signature mask, BuzzFeed reported.
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Despite the backlash, the face wraps sold out on the Skims website just a day after their release.
