Jodie Foster

And we also went to see movies.

You know, we saw Panic in Needle Park and we saw Straw Dogs and all those films of that era.

And I suddenly was like, oh, I want to be a part of this amazing thing that I feel passionate about.

And it was just, it all happened in a moment.

I don't know.

It's moved on.

But, you know, it's the same old me.

And I'm always so happy to be on NPR because I'm such an NPR fan and such an NPR head.

Yeah.

My mom, when I was about nine years old, she had never traveled anywhere in her life.

And she, right before then, she took a trip to France and fell in love with it and said, okay, you're going to learn French, you're going to go to an immersion school, and someday maybe you'll be a French actor.

And so they dropped me in where it was a school, Le Lycée Francais de Los Angeles, that does everything in French.

So it was science and math and history, everything in French.

And I cried for about six months.

And then

And then I spoke fluently and got over it.

Well, actually, I have.

Yeah, I quit smoking.

When I quit smoking, I went to a hypnotist, and I was a really, really big smoker.

So I tried everything, and I tried to quit a million times.