Jodie Foster

And so I had, I loved the family of making movies.

The actual work of being an actor, I had no interest in.

And in fact, I just thought it was kind of a dumb job.

And that got supported because my mother would say, hey, your career is going to be over when you're 18.

So what are you going to do after that?

Um, she wasn't wrong.

That's pretty much the way it usually works.

Most child actors don't work after they're 18.

And so they have to come up with, you know, what's their next act.

So she was sort of preparing me for that.

Um, and I thought, well, yeah, because I can't, I can't do a job where I just like look at a piece of paper, learn the lines and then say them.

That's, that just seems not very challenging.

Um, but when I was 12, I did Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro and, uh, something happened, you know, he,

kind of took me under his wing and explained improvisation and went through the work with me.

And I had this eureka moment where I was like, oh, it's my fault.

I have not brought enough to the equation.

And this is actually the exploration of character is really an amazing thing to do for a living that I love.

And I love making films.

And maybe this is something that I'd want to do.

But it wasn't until then.