'Hannibal' Season 3 Spoilers: Bryan Fuller & Hugh Dancy Debate Nature Of Dr Lecter & Will Graham's Relationship [VIDEO]
Hannibal and Will Graham have an undeniable attraction to each other, but whether or not their relationship is of a sexual nature has caused a bit of a debate amongst the cast.
The cannibalistic psychiatrist and the profiler's friendship went off the rails in the season 2 finale, so much so that the good doctor wound up driving a blade into Graham's (Hugh Dancy) stomach. While series creator Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me) believes there was some level of homoerotic subtext built into the pairs relationship - particularly the ending - he doesn't believe wither would ever act on it.
"The homoeroticism was absolutely intentional. If you could've heard me cackling in the editing room, you would take it with the naughty wink with which it was intended for a certain portion of the audience," Fuller recently informed TV Line. "Will Graham's heterosexual. Hannibal Lecter, though, is the devil, so I think he's turned on by anything that's alive...So, no, I wouldn't put it past him."
What Outcome For Hannibal Would Please Will Graham? Hugh Dancy Explains
Dancy, on the other hand, doesn't think the subtext was intentionally written into the scripts.
"When he wrote them, I think it's safe to say he didn't write them with that in mind. It's just that he ends up stuck in the editing room after everyone's gone home, and that's why he's cackling," Dancy later told TV Line. "Look, I don't believe, and I don't think Bryan believes either, that these two guys are attracted to each other in that way. It's a true love, but it just happens to not be a sexual one. That said, I also think that Bryan is a wicked, wicked man."
Find out more about Will and Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) when Hannibal returns to NBC in 2015. Click the video below to see a preview of the series' most recent episode.
