Jodie Foster

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1,049 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 19 Jun

Jodie Foster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Jodie Foster · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

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.

Yeah.

He had a very Travis Bickle personality during that shoot.

So he was pretty boring.

He was very awkward and very boring.

And it was difficult for me.

I was a 12-year-old kid.

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