Jodie Foster

I was in a hospital for, you know, three or four days or something.

They determined I was okay.

So I went back and I worked with the lion.

And I think that was the right thing to do, which is, you know, I was very lucky.

And they're animals and we love them.

And, you know, we

you go through the procedures to make sure that you're safe.

And I worked with lots of other, you know, I worked with camels, I worked with pigs, I worked with lots of other animals.

I think she did the right thing, which is just to make sure that I got through it.

Yeah, I guess.

You know, I guess that's a good thing that I'm trained as a person and as an actor to deaden myself somehow to some of my feelings that might get in the way.

But when you say it out loud, it sounds like there will be psychological ramifications down the line, which I'm sure is true.

I think there's a part of me that has been made resilient by what I've done for a living and has been able to control my emotions in order to do that in a role.

And also that leads to problems when you're older.

Those survival skills get in the way and you have to learn how to ditch them when you get older and they're not serving you anymore.

Yeah, I couldn't be more grateful to have – I mean, what luck to have been part of that – our golden age of cinema in the 70s, some of the greatest movies that America ever made, the greatest filmmakers, auteur films, that were really talking about our times in ways that – challenging it in ways that had never happened before.

So I couldn't be happier that she chose these roles for me.

And a lot of it was – yes, it was a vicarious effort on her part that –

You know, she wanted something from me that she couldn't achieve in her life.

And what that was was respect, meaning, and to be a part of an art movement, to resist being objectified, and to make films that matter and that would matter to women of the next generation.