Jodie Foster 'Taxi Driver' costume - Business Insider print Jodie Foster. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty The Tribeca Film Festival held a 40th anniversary screening of "Taxi Driver" Thursday night, and many of the principals behind the movie were there to talk about it, including director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shephard, and Harvey Keitel. During the talk, Foster, who was 13 at the time of shooting, revealed what she thought of the costumes she had to wear to play Iris, the prostitute Travis Bickle (De Niro) saves at the end of the movie. "I was mortified," she told the audience at the Beacon Theater in New York City. "Just the hot pants and the dumb hat and the sunglasses. The first day I met the costume designer and put on the clothes, I cried." Jodie Foster played a 12-year-old prostitute in the movie "Taxi Driver." AP Photo Foster also said she had to go through a four-hour psychiatric evaluation just to star in the film. "The Board of Education didn't want me to work on it," Foster said.

"A young actor needs to have a tutor on set and they said I couldn't have one so we hired a lawyer and they had to determine if I was psychologically sane enough to play the part and I passed." When the film was released in 1976, some criticized the fact that Foster was subjected to such mature material, including a lot of violence, at a young age. But Foster said during the talk that she enjoyed the experience immensely, especially all of the fake blood in the movie's gory finale. "Seeing these big gallons of kyro syrup [fake blood] and all the guys would teach me what they were doing with it, it was fascinating," she said. "People asked me how frightening that last scene was to shoot.

Honestly, it was kind of fun." Jodie Foster - Biography - IMDb Jodie Foster Biography Showing all 164 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (112) | Personal Quotes (36) | Salary (8) Overview (4) 5' 3" (1.6 m) Mini Bio (1) Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los Angeles on November 19, 1962. She is the daughter of Evelyn Ella "Brandy" (Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force lieutenant colonel and later real estate broker. Brandy had filed for divorce in 1959 after having three children with Lucius, but the exes had a brief re-encounter in 1962 which resulted in Alicia's birth. Her older siblings nicknamed her "Jodie", a name she has used in her profession. She started her career at the age of two and made commercials for four years before making her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D.

(1968), on which her brother, Buddy Foster , was a regular. She stayed very busy as a child actress, working on television programs such as The Doris Day Show (1968), Adam-12 (1968), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969), The Partridge Family (1970), Bonanza (1959), and Gunsmoke (1955). In movies, her roles included playing Raquel Welch 's daughter in Kansas City Bomber (1972) and a delinquent tomboy in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Jodie first drew attention from critics with her appearance in Martin Scorsese 's Taxi Driver (1976) alongside Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel , where she played a prostitute at the tender age of 12 (she was 13 when the movie premiered) and received her first Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress.

She went on to have a very successful career in her early teens with leading roles in the Disney films Freaky Friday (1976) with Barbara Harris and Candleshoe (1977) opposite veteran film legends David Niven and Helen Hayes . The last film she made during this era was the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980), before enrolling at Yale University. During her freshman year at Yale, she was attached to a worldwide scandal when a crazed and obsessed fan named John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan to impress her. Jodie graduated from Yale in 1985 with a degree in literature. She resumed her acting career and sought a breakthrough role that would return her to stardom. After appearing in a few obscure movies with limited release, Jodie landed an audition for The Accused (1988) and was cast in the part of Sarah Tobias, a waitress who is gang-raped in a bar during a night of partying and teams up with a lawyer played by Kelly McGillis to prosecute the attackers. This performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, but despite the Oscar win, Jodie still hadn't re-established herself as a bankable star.

Her next film, Catchfire (1990), went straight to video, and she had to campaign hard to get her next good role. In 1991, she starred as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee assisting in a hunt for a serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with Anthony Hopkins , Scott Glenn , Ted Levine , and Brooke Smith . The film was a blockbuster hit, winning Jodie her second Academy Award for Best Actress and establishing her as an international movie star at the age of 28. With the wealth and fame to do anything she wanted, Jodie turned to directing. She made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate (1991), which was followed by Home for the Holidays (1995). These movies were critically acclaimed but did not do well at the box office, and she proved to be a far more successful actress than she was a director. 1994 was a huge triumph for her acting career. She first played a sexy con artist in the successful western comedy Maverick (1994) with Mel Gibson and James Garner .

Then, she played title role in Nell (1994), co-starring Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson . For her compelling performance as a wild, backwoods hermit who speaks an invented language and must return to civilization, Jodie was nominated for another Academy Award and won a Screen Actors Guild Award as Best Actress. Although she was working far less frequently as an adult than she did as a child, the films she turned out were commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Her next big screen role was in the science fiction drama Contact (1997) opposite Matthew McConaughey . She played a scientist who receives signals from space aliens. The film was a huge hit and brought her a Golden Globe nomination. She starred in the non-musical remake of The King and I (1956) entitled Anna and the King (1999), which was only modestly received in the U.S. but was very successful overseas. Three years after that she headlined the thriller Panic Room (2002), which co-starred Kristen Stewart , Forest Whitaker , Dwight Yoakam , and Jared Leto .

The film was a smash box-office hit and gave Jodie a $30 million opening weekend, the biggest of her career yet. She then appeared in two low-profile projects: the independent film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) and the foreign film A Very Long Engagement (2004). She returned to making Hollywood mainstream films, first with Flightplan (2005), in which she played a woman whose daughter disappears on an airplane that she designed. Once again Jodie proved herself to be a box-office draw, and the film was a worldwide hit. The following year she starred in another hit, the bank heist thriller Inside Man (2006) with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen . Jodie was on a roll. Her next film was the revenge thriller The Brave One (2007), which once again opened at #1 at the box office and earned her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Following this succession of thrillers that all had her playing tough women, Jodie returned to the comedy genre in Nim's Island (2008) with Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin .

She will reunite with Mel Gibson in the upcoming movie The Beaver (2011), which is scheduled for general release in 2011. - IMDb Mini Biography By: A fan of Jodie Foster Spouse (1) Athletic figure Trivia (112) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 "Sexiest Stars" in film history (#45) (1995). Was supposed to be commencement Speaker for Smith College in Massachusetts, but eventually had to decline (2000). As a child, she was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth while filming Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Received her Bachelor's degree in literature, magna cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1985). Had to pull out of Double Jeopardy (1999) because she became pregnant. Ranked #18 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 2007] Born to Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force colonel turned real estate agent, and Evelyn 'Brandy' Ella Almond, a film producer.

Her father left the family after few months before her birth. Graduated as the class valedictorian from the private academy Le Lycée Français in Los Angeles, California. [June 1980] Was reading by the time she was three years old. Fluent in French by age 14, she spoke her own lines in the film Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977), the film A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the film The Brave One (2007). She learned spanish at a young age. She was also fluent in Italian by age 18. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John'Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28 (1976). Born Alicia Christian Foster, her three siblings insisted on calling her "Jodie". Made her acting debut in a Coppertone Suntan Lotion commercial when she was 3 years old. For Sommersby (1993), Foster learned how to handle a horse-pulled buckboard. Was offered a role in Me and Rubyfruit (1989) twice and turned the role down. Has two convertibles.

Enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and B&W photos. Received an honorary degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Gave the Class Day speech at Yale University (1993) and received an honorary (Doctor of Fine Arts) degree from Yale University (1997). CBS was billed $12,000 for her hair and makeup for her appearance on 60 Minutes Wednesday (1999), December 1999 to promote Anna and the King (1999). This total was later determined to be incorrect and inflated. Was replaced by Ashley Judd for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999). Starred as Addie Pray on the short-lived television series Paper Moon (1974), which was originally a movie starring Tatum O'Neal . Never liked All in the Family (1971) because "it seemed to be doing the same thing each week". Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned the role down.

(March 30, 1981) Was stalked by John Hinckley during her college years, who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to impress her. Father Lucius Foster left the family when Jodie's mother was a few months pregnant with her. Born at 8:14 AM PST. Was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002). Shut down production company Egg Pictures in late 2001 to spend more time with her children. Replaced Nicole Kidman in the role of Meg Altman in Panic Room (2002) at the last minute when Kidman injured herself. Recorded a number of songs for her film Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977), including "Je T'Attends Depuis La Nuit Des Temps", "When I Looked at Your Face" and "La Vie C'est Chouette". Was in a serious relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met on the set of the movie Sommersby (1993) until they broke up in 2008.

Her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling from her film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's "Heroes" list in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003). Her sister, Connie Foster , was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976). Decided not to reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), which eventually went to Julianne Moore . Is doubled by stuntwoman Jill Stokesberry in most of her films, starting with Sommersby (1993). She was voted the 57th "Greatest Movie Star" of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Considers her role in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to be a counterpart to her role in Taxi Driver (1976). In Taxi Driver (1976), she is a young girl in bondage who has to be rescued. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), she rescues the captive woman.

In an interesting twist, her pimp in Taxi Driver (1976) was played by Harvey Keitel , who went on to play Clarice Starling's (her character in Silence of the Lambs") mentor, Jack Crawford, in Red Dragon (2002). Ranked #4 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars" Her production company, Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred. Has never revealed the identity of the father(s) of her two children. Producer of Freaky Friday (2003) Andrew Gunn had initially hoped she would be game to play the mother, as Foster had played the daughter in the original film Freaky Friday (1976). Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit. She was all set to star in the television film The Best Little Girl in the World (1981). Unfortunately, an actors' strike prevented the film from being made. By the time the production was ready to go, Jodie was already studying at Yale University. The leading role went to Jennifer Jason Leigh .

Her performance as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). She was the Commencement Speaker at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was received an honorary degree from the university. [May 2006] Ranked #4 on VH-1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars of All Time. In an article published on September 5, 2006, Foster told the New York Times that she is such a "'serious N.P.R. [National Public Radio]-head', the sort of person who will sit in her garage listening to the car radio until a show is over" that she changed her character in The Brave One (2007) from a newspaper reporter to the host of a public radio show. Has starred on two failed television series based on successful movies: Paper Moon (1974) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973).

Revealed during a 2005 interview on the French talk show "Le Grand Journal" that she knows the words to the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise", but does not know "The Star-Spangled Banner". Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989. Ranked #30 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007). An asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named after her (1998). Attended Yale University at the same time as Jennifer Beals . Considered Randy Stone her best friend until his death. Her family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah. Made an acceptance speech at a breakfast for Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment, where she paid tribute to her longtime companion Cydney Bernard , ending all speculations about her sexual orientation. [December 2007] Has a fear of snakes. The British rock group Asia wrote the song "Alibis" about her. Has said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.

Louis Malle originally wanted her to play the role of Violet in Pretty Baby (1978), a fictional biographical account of photographer E.J. Bellocq. However, she turned down the role, because she had already played a similar role (that of an underage prostitute) in Martin Scorsese 's Taxi Driver (1976). The role eventually went to Brooke Shields . Turned down the Bridget Fonda role in Point of No Return (1993). Rated No. 36 in the 2008 Power 50 issue of Out magazine. Sean Penn 's role in The Game (1997) was originally written as a female character with Foster in mind to portray. In the original script, Foster would play the daughter of Michael Douglas 's character. However, Douglas insisted that the female character be changed to his sister; Foster did not like the idea as she was far too young to play his sister, and she withdrew from the project. Turned down the role of Chris Parker Adventures in Babysitting (1987), which went to Elisabeth Shue .

Was considered by Sergio Leone for the role of Deborah Gelly in his final movie Once Upon a Time in America (1984), which went to Elizabeth McGovern . Was considered for the role of Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love (1998), which went to Gwyneth Paltrow . Turned down the role of Angel Bright in Little Darlings (1980), which went to Kristy McNichol . Was considered for the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman (1990), which went to Julia Roberts . Turned down the role of Suzanne Stone in To Die For (1995), which went to Nicole Kidman . Turned down the role of Amanda Whurlitzer in The Bad News Bears (1976), which went to Tatum O'Neal . Turned down the role of Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), which went to Meg Ryan . Was considered for the role of Claire Standish in The Breakfast Club (1985), which went to Molly Ringwald . Turned down the role of Andie Walsh in Pretty in Pink (1986), which went to Molly Ringwald . Friends with Mel Gibson .

Foster was pursued by an obsessed fan named John Hinckley . Hinckley came up with a plan to impress her by assassinating President Ronald Reagan . Shortly before 2:30 PM EST, as Reagan walked out of the hotel's T Street NW exit toward his waiting car, Hinckley emerged from the crowd of admirers and fired a .22-cal. blue steel revolver six times in three seconds, missing the President with all six shots. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. The second hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas K. Delahanty in the back. The third overshot Reagan and hit the window of a building across the street. The fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy in the abdomen. The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open side door of the president's limousine. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the side of the limousine and hit the president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his lung, stopping nearly an inch from his heart. Hinckley has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. Considers her performance in Nell (1994) as her best one.

Member of the same Los Angeles gym as Ryan Gosling , Bradley Cooper , Jason Sarayba , Michelle Monaghan , Christopher Mintz-Plasse , and Ashley Tisdale . Lives in Beverly Hills, California. Returned to work four months after giving birth to her son Kit in order to begin filming The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002). Returned to work four months after giving birth to her son Charles in order to begin filming Anna and the King (1999). In both times, Foster won the Best Actress Oscar, she was under the direction of directors named Jonathan: Jonathan Kaplan directed her in The Accused (1988) and Jonathan Demme directed her in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). While promoting The Beaver (2011), she said that David Fincher and Neil Jordan are the directors who have influenced her as a director. Her favorite movie is The 400 Blows (1959). As of 2012, she is the 10th youngest person to receive an Academy Award for Best Actress. Received the Cecil B.

DeMille award at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards on January 13, 2013 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Gave birth to her first child at age 35, a son Charles Foster on July 20, 1998, with partner Cydney Bernard . Child's father is unknown. Gave birth to her second child at age 38, a son Kit Foster on September 21, 2001, with partner Cydney Bernard . Child's father is unknown. Was considered for the role of Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), but was busy filming Elysium (2013). The role ultimately went to Julianne Moore . Coincidentally, Moore replaced Foster as Clarice Starling in the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001). She and Jane Fonda are the two actresses with the initials 'J.F.' who had won each one, two Academy Awards for Best Actress. Turned down the role of Dolly Harshaw in The Hot Spot (1990), which went to Virginia Madsen .

Was chosen from among 18,000 hopefuls for the role of Iris in Taxi Driver (1976), as screenwriter Paul Schrader wanted an unknown actress for the role. Became close friends with Nastassja Kinski while filming The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). At one point, she was approached by Stephen McCauley to star in a film version of his novel "The Object of My Affection". However, the film The Object of My Affection (1998) was not made until 1997, and eventually starred Jennifer Aniston . Was the 98th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Accused (1988) at The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989) on March 29, 1989. Joe Funicello , from ICM Partners, has been her talent agent since 1974. The two people with whom she has been in her longest-term relationships both worked on The L Word (2004).

Cydney Bernard , with whom Foster had her two children (they were together from 1993 to 2008) was a unit production manager on the show, and Alexandra Hedison , whom Foster married in April 2014, played the character Dylan Moreland. Turned down the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992), which went to Sharon Stone . Peter Ho-Sun Chan originally wanted her for the role of Helen MacFarquhar in The Love Letter (1999), but she was unavailable due to pregnancy. She was replaced by Kate Capshaw . Callie Khouri originally wrote the role of Thelma Dickinson in Thelma & Louise (1991) with Jodie Foster in mind. However, director Ridley Scott turned her down for being too young for the role. Was considered to play a young version of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). However, director George Lucas decided to make the character older. Was considered to portray Laura Bush in the biopic W. (2008), which went to Elizabeth Banks .

Expressed her desire to work with actor Matthias Schoenaerts during a Q&A at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Is one of 11 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a move that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004). Because she speaks perfect French, she makes the dubbing over her character's voice for most of her films released in France.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 4, 2016. In college she dated Tina Landau for about a year and a half. Personal Quotes (36) Being understood is not the most essential thing in life. [on her role in Taxi Driver (1976), when she was age 12] I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense? Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. It's not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me. I could tell you the criticism backward and forward about Little Man Tate (1991). But it didn't bother me as long as they were talking about the work and not about "she has fat thighs" or something. But I fared really well with "Tate", so I shouldn't be complaining. [At age 14] Kids talk like sailors now. Adults don't want to know.

[In April 2004, on the advantages of being an actress who is months from turning 40] They've lived longer, they're more confident about their choices and they don't have to be hip and cool anymore, which I think is a godsend--you make really bad choices when you are trying to be hip. If I fail, at least I will have failed my way. [on "Foster Child", her brother Buddy Foster 's unauthorized biography about her] A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollections, fantasies and borrowed press releases. Buddy has done nothing but break our mother's heart his whole life. [on devoting more time to parenting her sons than film work] There's something so pure about the ways boys love you. I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in. Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me. I love to see theater but not to work in it.

Too messy, and I have a bit of an inferiority complex. What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority. I'm nervous every day on a film set. The anxiety of performance is not like anything else because you never know if you'll get there or not. There is an anxiety when it comes to finding the truth. I'm lucky that people do leave me alone. I'm not Madonna . The red carpet is work for me. I work from 9-to-5 and when I get home, I don't want to go back to work by going to an industry event. For me, putting on makeup and a fancy dress is work. I've learned something in the last few years that I really didn't know about myself as an actor. I basically learned how to stay happy. It's important for me to be happy working or I feel resentful. I don't like it. I hate myself. What I know now is that I really need to love the director. I need him to be a good parent. And then I will lie down on the train tracks for him and go to the ends of the earth for him.

Motherhood doesn't mean I don't have a creative side that I need to nourish. It doesn't mean I don't have independence from them. I'd be a crazy person if I didn't. As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo. [on her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976)] At first I didn't want to do the part, but only because I was afraid my friends would tease me afterward. I thought, "Wow, they've got to be kidding." It was a great part for Melanie Griffith , but I couldn't believe that they were offering it to me. I was a Disney girl. [on her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976)] I played something completely different. But I knew the character I had to play--I grew up three blocks away from Hollywood Boulevard and saw prostitutes like Iris every day. [on the making of Taxi Driver (1976)] There was a welfare worker on the set every day and she saw the daily rushes of all my scenes and made sure I wasn't on set when Robert De Niro said a dirty word.

[on the making of Taxi Driver (1976)] You rarely have a director like Martin Scorsese or a co-star like Robert De Niro , who rehearses and rehearses until you get the feeling that for the time you're with him he is the character. It's so real it's frightening. [on Taxi Driver (1976)] I think it's one of the finest films that's ever been made in America. It's a statement about America. About violence. About loneliness. Anonymity. Some of the best works are those that have tried to imitate that kind of film, that kind of style. It's just a classic. I felt when I came home every day that I had really accomplished something. [on backing Mel Gibson after his 2006 anti-Semitic comments while drunk to a cop he thought was Jewish] Is he an anti-Semite? Absolutely not. But it's no secret that he has always fought a terrible battle with alcoholism. [Mel] was a shining example of how low you can go when you are young and still pull yourself up. He took his recovery very seriously, which is why I know he is strong enough to get through this now.

[Criticizing the film adaptation of Sin City (2005)] That was so painfully cartoonish I was offended. I don't know how you enjoy or laugh about a child abduction and molestation. What part of that sentence is funny? I can't get beyond that. I don't know if everyone understands the impact of that movie's message. When people are there to simply do a job they don't have any passion for, those are nearly always bad films. [on independent films] Obviously, I've made a lot of independent movies and I ran an independent production company and produced a bunch of independent movies. I don't make as many indie movies as an actress 'cause I don't think I'm well suited for them. I don't know why. As an actress, I think I'm better in mainstream movies because I have a very linear storytelling way and sometimes that's kind of boring for indie movies. So I think I'm a better indie movie director and producer than I am an actress. [Agreeing to work with the controversial Mel Gibson in The Beaver (2011)] I grew up with the idea that the movie business is a family. It's like the mob. You don't rat on your friends.

Who you are in a business relationship is a reflection of who you are as an artist. Mel [Gibson] and I work in the same way. We're people who focus intensely but for a short period of time. One minute he's standing there making a joke. And then, bam! He's in it. It's all about concentration. What do you need to concentrate. I've reached that point where I don't want to act very much anymore. I am much more interested in holding off on acting, after 45 years as an actor. It's a long period of time to do the same thing. [at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. [on Jennifer Lawrence ] The good news is that Jen, her good-humoured, ballsy, free-spirited ego with the husky voice and a propensity for junk food - Jen, the spirited tomboy from Kentucky - that Jen's got it together. A hoot. A gem. A gem with a killer stare.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. [on Richard Gere ] A lot of actors think acting is a girl's job, but Richard finds something sensuous in acting. Salary (8) Jodie Foster reveals Taxi Driver co-stars were uneasy with her teenage prostitute - BT Jodie Foster reveals Taxi Driver co-stars were uneasy with her teenage prostitute The actress has revealed she was terrified when she first worked with Anthony Hopkins. Print this story Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster said her teenage prostitute character in Martin Scorsese’s hit film Taxi Driver made her co-stars uncomfortable. Foster was 12 years old when she played the character Iris in Scorsese’s 1976 film alongside Robert De Niro. De Niro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle, a former US marine who becomes a taxi driver, earned him his first Oscar nomination and saw Foster nominated in the best supporting actress category. Jodie Foster on The Graham Norton Show (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) Talking on The Graham Norton Show, she said: “I was 12 years old and had made more movies than anyone else on the film at that point. “They were very uncomfortable about my character. Nobody knew how to direct me.

“Scorsese would say something like ‘unzip his fly’ and just start laughing and not know what to do so he would hand it over to Robert De Niro and then Robert would tell me what to do. “And he was even more ‘Robert De Niro’ then, even quieter and more strange.” Another stand-out role of hers – for which she won a best actress Oscar – was the 1991 thriller The Silence Of The Lambs. Jodie Foster, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling and Greg Davies on Graham Norton’s sofa (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) Based on the novel of the same name, she played FBI agent Clarice Starling alongside Anthony Hopkins’ serial killer character Hannibal Lecter. Jodie revealed she was so terrified of Hopkins that she barely spoke to him during filming. She said: “I never spoke to him because he was so scary. The first day we had a read-through and by the end of it I never wanted to talk to him again – I was petrified. “We got to the end of the movie and really had never had a conversation.

“I actually avoided him but on the last day he came up to me and I said, with tears in my eyes, how scared I was of him and he said, ‘But, I was scared of you!’” Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling ( Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) Other guests joining Foster on Graham’s sofa this week are actors Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, who are promoting their latest film Nice Guys. Olympic diver Tom Daley also makes an appearance, explaining that his Olympic swimwear is small because “everything has to stay in place”. Tom Daley (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) He said: “If you’re spinning around, the last thing you want to do is have something come out of place! And when you hit the water you don’t want things flapping about because it would hurt.” The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One on May 20 at 10.35pm.

Jodie Foster says she cried the first time she put on her costume for 'Taxi Driver' 19,724.00 -11.00 (-0.06%) Jodie Foster says she cried the first time she put on her costume for 'Taxi Driver' Jason Guerrasio Jodie Foster Dimitrios Kambouris Getty More (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) Jodie Foster. The Tribeca Film Festival held a 40th anniversary screening of "Taxi Driver" Thursday night, and many of the principals behind the movie were there to talk about it, including director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shephard, and Harvey Keitel. During the talk, Foster, who was 13 at the time of shooting, revealed what she thought of the costumes she had to wear to play Iris, the prostitute Travis Bickle (De Niro) saves at the end of the movie. "I was mortified," she told the audience at the Beacon Theater in New York City. "Just the hot pants and the dumb hat and the sunglasses.

The first day I met the costume designer and put on the clothes, I cried." View photos Jodie Foster Prostitute Taxi Driver More (AP Photo) Jodie Foster played a 12-year-old prostitute in the movie "Taxi Driver." Foster also said she had to go through a four-hour psychiatric evaluation just to star in the film. "The Board of Education didn't want me to work on it," Foster said. "A young actor needs to have a tutor on set and they said I couldn't have one so we hired a lawyer and they had to determine if I was psychologically sane enough to play the part and I passed." When the film was released in 1976, some criticized the fact that Foster was subjected to such mature material, including a lot of violence, at a young age. But Foster said during the talk that she enjoyed the experience immensely, especially all of the fake blood in the movie's gory finale. "Seeing these big gallons of kyro syrup [fake blood] and all the guys would teach me what they were doing with it, it was fascinating," she said. "People asked me how frightening that last scene was to shoot.

Honestly, it was kind of fun." Rent Jodie Foster Movies on DVD and Blu-ray - DVD Netflix Thrillers Jodie Foster Born Nov. 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, Jodie Foster landed her first acting job as an adorable tyke in a Coppertone commercial. She soon became a television mainstay, starring in shows such as "My Three Sons," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and "The Partridge Family." Her breakthrough role came in Martin Scorsese's gritty Taxi Driver, in which she played a 12-year-old prostitute and for which she won many industry accolades. She also attended Yale University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. More than a decade later, she proved she was in the business for the long haul by nabbing a Best Actress Oscar for her role in 1988's The Accused. In 1991, she won the same award again, this time for her portrayal of FBI agent Clarisse Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

She's also starred in Little Man Tate (1991), Nell (1994), Contact (1997) and Panic Room (2002). HINCKLEY DEFENSE RESTS AS KEY MOVIE IS SHOWN - NYTimes.com HINCKLEY DEFENSE RESTS AS KEY MOVIE IS SHOWN By STUART TAYLOR Jr., Special to the New York Times Published: May 29, 1982 WASHINGTON, May 28— John W. Hinckley Jr. watched intently today as the film ''Taxi Driver,'' which defense psychiatrists have testified helped to shape his bizarre thoughts and his sense of compulsion to shoot President Reagan, was played for the jury at his trial. After showing the two-hour film, defense attorneys rested their case that Mr. Hinckley was insane at the time of the assassination attempt, opening the way for the prosecution to present experts and other rebuttal witnesses beginning Tuesday. Mr.

Hinckley, whose 27th birthday is Saturday, put his head down and his hands over his eyes during a scene in which a 12-year-old prostitute played by Jodie Foster, with whom he has been obsessed, was shown in a long, slow-dancing embrace with her pimp. He appeared tense and drained at the end of the screening. But he kept his eyes riveted on one of the seven courtroom television monitors for most of the film, which he had reportedly seen at least 15 times, beginning in 1976, before he began stalking Presidents after the fashion of the deranged New York cabby in the movie. Jurors Watch Film Closely The jurors also watched with apparent interest and without flinching as seamy and violent scenes with foul language were shown. In one scene, a squirming heap of nude bodies appears in a pornographic film to which the taxi driver had taken a woman he had admired and idealized. The woman walks out and refuses to see him again. Three defense psychiatrists and a psychologist have testified that the lonely, depressed Mr.

Hinckley was so powerfully affected by the film that at times he almost thought he was Travis Bickle, the taxi driver, and was driven by the ''delusion'' that he must commit some violent deed to achieve a ''magical union'' with Miss Foster. The taxi driver, a lonely, bitter man, buys an arsenal of guns and sinks into increasingly violent fantasies after being rejected by a woman. He is chased off when he stalks a Presidential candidate with a pistol and then goes on a murderous rampage in a seedy hotel to ''rescue'' the prostitute. In the end, he is acclaimed as a hero. Letter for Jodie Foster Mr. Hinckley, who thought about killing himself, and perhaps Miss Foster, after she rejected him when he pursued her at Yale University with letters and telephone calls in the fall of 1980, left a letter to the actress in his Washington hotel room on March 30, 1981, saying he planned to ''get Reagan'' that day to impress her.

The defendant modeled himself after the taxi driver in many ways, from the guns and clothes he bought to the diary he kept, the pursuit of young prostitutes in New York, and the stalking of Presidents after being rejected by a woman, according to the defense testimony. In a closed court session in March in which Miss Foster's testimony about her rejection of Mr. Hinckley's calls was being recorded on videotape, he threw a pen or pencil at her and threatened her life, an informed source confirmed today. Today the film was shown after Federal District Judge Barrington D. Parker rejected a prosecution objection that it would be ''cumulative'' because it had already been described in detail by defense witnesses. Film's Influence Stressed All four defense mental health experts have stressed the influence of the film on the defendant's mental state. One expert, Dr. David M. Bear, testified that the defendant had told him ''he felt like he was acting out a movie script'' at the time he shot the President and three other men. Dr. Thomas C. Goldman, another expert, testified this week that Mr.

Hinckley ''felt as if this was the story of his life'' when he first saw the film in 1976 while he was pursuing a lonely and unsuccessful quest for a career as a songwriter. ''He identified with Travis Bickle's sense of loneliness and isolation'' and with his inner rage at society, the psychiatrist said. Later, Dr. Goldman said, as the defendant became ''progressively unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy'' because of his social isolation and mental illness, he succumbed to violent fantasies like those that drove the taxi driver. After Miss Foster told him to stop calling her on the telephone in September 1980, ''he thought that the next thing to do would be to get a gun and start stalking President Carter'' Dr. Goldman said. ''Mr. Hinckley believed that he could win her admiration and love that way,'' he said, and even after his arrest had ''a strong conviction that he had impressed Miss Foster with what he had done.'' ''This fantasy was clearly an example of magical thinking,'' according to Dr. Goldman. Illustrations: photo of JoAnn and John W.

Hinkley 1976: When 'Taxi Driver' Was Greeted With Boos at Cannes | Hollywood Reporter 1976: When 'Taxi Driver' Was Greeted With Boos at Cannes 10:00 PM PDT 5/11/2016 by Seth Abramovitch Corbis “The whole issue about the violence in the movie kind of exploded,” Jodie Foster recently told THR. Martin Scorsese's masterpiece of inner-city alienation screened for a jittery Cannes Film Festival in 1976, a year a fter a bomb was discovered inside the Palais des Festivals. (The failed plot was mounted by a terrorist group called The People's Struggle Against the Perversion of Humanity.) Perhaps that explains why Taxi Driver drew loud boos from the mercurial crowd, many of whom streamed out of the theater ashen-faced over the film's ultraviolent climax in which the protagonist, Vietnam War vet turned cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro, then 32), guns down a pimp (Harvey Keitel, 37) to rescue Iris, a teen prostitute played by a 13-year-old Jodie Foster.

"The whole issue about the violence in the movie kind of exploded," Foster recently told THR. "Marty, Bobby and Harvey kind of got stuck at the Hotel du Cap and didn't come out very much." A fter Scorsese caught wind of a report that jury head Tennessee Williams hated the film, he flew back to the U.S. to finish his follow-up, New York, New York. Despite the film's brutality, the jury could not deny that Taxi Driver was a triumph and awarded it the Palme d'Or — accompanied by a hand-wringing caveat that "cinema not become a source of hatred." The decision was, not surprisingly, controversial. "Half the audience was on its feet cheering," recalls producer Michael Phillips. "The other half was booing." Foster returns to Cannes this year with her latest directorial e ffort, Money Monster, which has its world premiere May 12 at the Palais. Taxi Driver: Its Influence on John Hinckley, Jr. TAXI DRIVER Poster advertising the Martin Scorcese's 1976 about a psychotic taxi driver In the years leading up to John F.

Hinckley Jr .'s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan , he became obsessed with the movie "Taxi Driver." Hinckley saw the movie at least fifteen times, read and re-read the book it was based upon, and bought the soundtrack to the film, listening to it for hours on end. Hinckley even began to model certain aspects of his life on the actions of the main characters. Most importantly, Hinckley developed an intense obsession with an actress in the film, Jodie Foster . PLOT: The film stars Robert DeNiro as the main character, Travis Bickle, a violent taxi cab driver alienated from society. Bickle becomes interested in a woman named Betsy who works for a presidential candidate, and tries to attract her attention, but is unsuccessful. Rebuffed by both society and the object of his affection, Bickle decides to assassinate the presidential candidate so that he may win Betsy's admiration. He is never able to get close enough to the candidate, however, to complete his assassination attempt. Bickle then becomes interested in saving Iris, a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster.

He goes to the hotel where twelve-year-old prostitute brings her customers, and shoots her pimp, the hotel manager, and a client, rescuing Iris from the horrible environment. At the end of the movie, Travis Bickle holds a bloody finger to his temple, acting like a man who is blowing his own brains out. In the context of the movie, however, it is a gesture of triumph. Travis Bickle is a hero. IDENTIFICATION: One of Hinckley's defense experts at trial, Dr. William Carpenter, Jr., stated that John Hinckley identified in many ways with Travis Bickle and "picked up in largely automatic ways many [of his] attributes." Hinckley began to imitate Bickle's preference for army fatigue jackets and boots, and developed a fascination with guns. He adopted Bickle's preference for peach brandy and, like the movie character, began keeping a diary. According to Carpenter, Hinckley's isolation from society and vulnerability led him to unconsciously begin to mimic Bickle's traits.

In Carpenter's words, Hinckley "absorbed the identity of Travis Bickle." Carpenter even believed that when Hinckley took a bus cross-country from Los Angeles, Washington was merely a stopover on his route to Yale, and another attempt to "rescue" Jodie Foster as the film script demanded. The prosecution contended that Hinckley merely "imitated" Travis Bickle, much like a fan of a rock star might choose to wear the star's clothes or sunglasses. To the prosecution, Hinckley's identification with Bickle was conscious, not unconscious. Hinckley probably saw a lot of himself in the psychotic Travis Bickle. More importantly, he may have seen in the movie what he thought were clues to extricating himself from his lonely, alienated state. In the movie, Bickle's violence is rewarded. LYNN COLLINS: Hinckley also fashioned a make-believe girlfriend named Lynn Collins on Betsy's character in "Taxi Driver." Just as Travis Bickle had written home to his parents about a rich and beautiful girlfriend, John wrote home about Lynn, creating vacations and visits and break-ups that were all a fabrication of his mind.

Hinckley's mother JoAnn, came to feel such a warmth and connection with Lynn after several years of corresponding about her with John, (obviously John never brought her home to meet the folks), that she felt an emptiness when she was told by the FBI that Lynn Collins did not exist. Feeling the loss as though it were a close personal friend, JoAnn Hinckley was most devastated by the fact that without Lynn in his life, she could not think of a single person with whom her son had had a relationship in several years. AT TRIAL: "Taxi Driver" was shown by the defense during John Hinckley's trial. Hinckley's reaction to the showing of the movie demonstrated the depth of the impression it had made on him. Twisting in his chair to get a better look at the main character as Robert DeNiro's mug appeared on the screen, he was so engrossed in the movie that he watched it mouth open, eyes fastened to the screen. He took his eyes off the movie only twice. The first time was when Betsy turns Travis down for a date, after which Hinckley took off his glasses and turned his head aside.

The second time John took his eyes off the movie was when Iris, played by Jodie Foster, embraces her pimp. Upon watching this scene, Hinckley buried his face in his hands. At the conclusion of the movie, the defense rested. INFORMATION ON THE MOVIE (CAST, REVIEWS, IMAGES, ETC.):

Question: How old is the prostitute, played by Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, supposed to be?
Answer: 12