Jodie Foster

Too sexual?

Yeah.

I remember seeing Last Time in Paris.

And my mom going like, maybe this is a good time for you to go get a Coke.

Yeah, but I also think they admired her.

I think they knew that I was, I think precocious is a weird word.

I think I did have a skill that was beyond my years, and I had a strong sense of self.

So, you know, I'm not very good at math.

I'm not terribly good at science, but I did have a

almost like an idiot savant ability to understand emotions and character that was beyond my years.

Yes, and thank God I was acting.

So it gave me an outlet that I would not have had

I had to develop.

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.