Jodie Foster

So, of course, we saw a million plays.

You know, I saw Pippin and a little night music and Chicago and, you know,

Just all these amazing plays.

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.

Yeah.

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.

Oh, the evaluation was actually, it was suggested by my lawyer because they were trying to stop me from playing the role.

The Board of Education had questions about it.

They had just gotten a lot of flack because Brooke Shields had just been in the Louis Mellon movie, Pretty Baby.

And there was a lot of flack about that, the kind of, you know, the sexuality of the movie and her being served naked on a cake, stuff like that.

And so my lawyer, who was...

pat brown right so that's jerry brown's dad that's very cool bit of trivia um he suggested that we do a psychological evaluation so they took me to a child psychologist and you know the guy just asked me a bunch of questions like what food do you like i was like chinese you know what movies do you like and i told them and um very simple questions and i guess by that they determined that i was just a normal person and i would be fine and then i understood the difference between acting and who i was as a person

You know what I mean?

Yeah, it was.

That's why Scorsese wanted me for the part.

I mean, my mom was not convinced.

I remember going in for the meeting and her saying to him, look, you know her.

And I came in my school uniform with a blue blazer that had a crest on it, Peter Pan collar and, you know, knee socks.