Terry Gross

He's been in therapy with her for years, hoping it would help him quit smoking.

It hasn't helped.

So he tried a hypnotist, and after only one session, he quit cigarettes.

Foster's character is very skeptical of hypnosis, but when one of her patients, a beautiful woman, dies under mysterious circumstances, Foster's character wants to get to the bottom of what happened, hoping she wasn't in any way responsible.

Despite her skepticism, she sees a hypnotist, goes under, and that sets her on a path to uncover what happened to her patient.

Jodi Foster, welcome back to Fresh Air.

It's been years, and my impression is your life has changed a lot since then.

That is so great to hear.

So your new film is in French and you went to French language school, right?

So hypnosis plays a key role in the new movie.

Did you ever go under, even for research?

Wow.

That's great.

That's kind of what happens in the movie.

Well, not really.

And the movie sets her off on this like mystery.

She becomes kind of a detective.

So just a question about your Freudian therapy.

Do you actually lie down on a couch?

Would you be game to do a career retrospective?