Article continues below advertisementOK! can reveal Anthony Hopkins has privately launched a blistering rebuttal against resurgent rumors he feuded with Jodie Foster during the making of their 1991 classic The Silence of the Lambs, telling pals the claims are an attempt to portray him as a real-life version of the cannibal monster he once played.The veteran actor, 87, has been promoting his new memoir, We Did OK, Kid, when old tales of tension on set resurfaced online, prompting Hopkins to clarify the who, what, why, where and when behind the gossip about him and 63-year-old Foster.