Terry Gross

And this acceptance speech was a speech that a lot of people took notice of.

So I'm just going to play this clip.

Sure.

Okay, here we go.

Okay, so it's... Wow, that was a lot.

Yeah.

But you really tease that as like, I'm going to come out as gay.

And I really like what you said about people expect you, if you're in the public eye and you're gay, that you have to issue a press release about it.

And was that in part because you're a private person and that's the way you are, but also because you didn't want to come out as gay because it would have inspired so much gossip and distraction and maybe a loss of roles?

Jodie Foster, I've enjoyed this so much.

Thank you so much for coming back to the show.

Thank you.

And good luck with the new movie.

And I hope we talk again.

Me too.

Jodie Foster stars in the new film A Private Life.

It opens in select theaters Friday and opens more widely on the 30th.

Tomorrow on Fresh Air, we'll talk about Marco Rubio.

He once called President Donald Trump a con artist.

Now a secretary of state, he's defending policies he once opposed and overseeing deep cuts to the very foreign aid programs he once supported.