Jodie Foster

And saying, look out, hoss.

Who knew?

Who knew there was such a thing as fennel?

Yeah, I really appreciate her now.

I mean, I'm sure I was pretty mad at her in my 30s, like all of us.

And then suddenly really started seeing the other side of the, you know, the other side of the story.

She really did.

I think there was this vicarious thrill for her is that she wanted me to be all the things that she couldn't be, which is she wanted me to be respected.

She didn't want me to be objectified.

She wanted me to have a long career, not a short one.

She didn't want me to play somebody's just sister, mother, daughter.

She wanted me to be central character.

because she grew up in a pre-feminist time where she didn't have any of those opportunities.

So it worked out for me.

Well...

Because I don't really remember ever starting, the things I loved was I loved being in a community that felt like a family.

And honestly, mostly those were brothers and fathers because there really weren't any women around.

So I liked being the surrogate daughter to all these guys who taught me how lenses worked and they taught me how to –

how to load the film into the camera.

And they, you know, they would give me marks and they would say, you know, you have to turn on this line.