Jodie Foster

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1,049 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jodie Foster / Tessa Thompson · 17 Jan 2026 podcast

So kids at night, in the middle of the night, would come and shoot BB guns at the lions.

There were two other lions.

One was a stand-in lion, and one was like a stunt lion.

So they let the— Were they in the union?

Exactly.

Oh, yeah.

There's a whole animal training thing that we do in the film business.

And so the trainer couldn't get the old lion to work, so he just wouldn't move.

And you can't make a 500-pound lion do anything.

So they got the stand-in lion, and the stand-in lion worked all day.

And we were ending the day going up a hillside.

I think they might have been tugging him with a – guiding him with a piano wire, which is a thin filament.

And –

I guess he snapped.

I mean, he came around, he picked me up by the hip and shook me.

Yeah, yeah.

He held me horizontally and then flipped me around and shook me.

So I watched the entire film crew run in the opposite direction, sideways.

Oh, my God.

Run away from the lion.

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