The two-time Academy Award-winning actress also admitted she is “not an actress by nature.”
jodie foster She spoke about why she stays away from theater roles, based on a traumatic experience she had with Stoker when she was 18.
Sitting down with fellow “Jodie” Jodie Comer interview magazine, Comer asked Foster if he would do a play. The question made the two-time Academy Award-winning actress recall her first and last experience on stage.
“I don’t know. I can finally admit that a play I did when I was in college had caused me so much trauma. Well, quickly it was done in two weekends, and I was in charge of the first weekend, and I did the first weekend and the second weekend. Meanwhile, John Hinckley shot the President.” The poster began to explain.
John Hinckley Jr. admitted during the trial that he became obsessed with Foster after seeing him. taxi driver. He tried to win Forster's attention by writing letters and poems to her before moving to Connecticut and plotting to murder the president to impress her. He called his assassination attempt 'the greatest love sacrifice in the history of the world.'
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“It was a long time ago. “You may not know this, but it was a big moment in my life because he shot me to impress me and even wrote me a letter.” The 61-year-old actress went on to explain how her world changed after that moment, and even I was even assigned a security guard.
“I had to be moved to a safe house, and halfway through the two weekends of this play, I had this stupid thought, ‘The show must go on,’ so I thought, ‘I’ve got to do it the second weekend,’” he added.
However, when Foster went on stage, she made eye contact with the wrong person in the audience during the performance.
“There was a guy in the front row who, realizing it was his second night there, decided to yell ‘F–k you, motherf–ker!’ throughout the play. “I decided I was just going to use this guy,” he recalled. “And the next day, it turned out that the guy had a gun, and he went to the concert with a gun, and the guy was running away, and I was in class. “I was in class and the security guard came and threw me. I fell on the floor while I was taking class, and it was really embarrassing because there were only 10 people there.”
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After acknowledging how “traumatic” that moment was for her, Foster added, “I've never acknowledged that it could have anything to do with not wanting to do theater again.”
Despite having numerous awards and nominations to her name, she claimed she was “not a natural” actor.
“I fell in love with it when I was three. I probably would have become a lawyer or a college professor. It wasn't my path. So I loved the technical side of filmmaking, but I never fell in love with the acting part. It was my It was against my nature, and I think it made me a wealthier person,” Foster told Comer.