Jodie Foster

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

Jodie Foster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

It was a sink or swim.

I had to develop an emotional side.

I had to cut off my brain sometimes to play characters in order to be good.

And I wanted to be good.

You know, if I was going to do something, I wanted to be excellent.

So in order to do that, I had to learn emotions.

And I had to learn not only how to access them, but also how to control them so that I could give them intention.

Yeah.

He had a very Travis Bickle personality during that shoot, so he was pretty boring.

He was very awkward and very boring, and it was difficult for me.

I was a 12-year-old kid.

I was like, oh, God, here comes this guy again.

He's taking me to a diner, and he's going to not talk for 20 minutes.

Yeah.

And I would talk to the waiters.

And we also would run lines.

So we ran the lines, sort of a normal rehearsal process where we ran the lines.

And I think by the third time, he started going off and improvising around the lines and encouraging me to do the same and trying to show me how to dip in.

So, you know, he would go off on a tangent, some long improvised tangent, and then I had to find the opportunity to

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