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Almost six decades in front of the camera: Jodie Foster at an awards ceremony in Santa Monica in mid-January

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She herself was in front of the camera as a three-year-old, but she left her sons in the dark when they reached the same age: Actress Jodie Foster explained on the ABC show "The View" why she wasn't in the role the cool mother wanted to shine with Hollywood fame.

Accordingly, her aim was to let the children grow up as normally as possible - without having to worry too much about the idea of ​​being the offspring of a star.

"I wanted them to know me as their mother and a person who drives to work," said the 61-year-old in the interview broadcast on Friday.

What this work consisted of should not be the focus.

She even openly showed how she earned her living, Foster told an anecdote: When she was pregnant with her second son Christopher (born in 2001), she took her then three-year-old first son Charles with her to the film set.

“I bought him a little plastic tool belt and stuff like that.

Yes, and then I told him: 'It's this set, this set, this set.'" Apparently the boy didn't yet understand the difference between film sets and construction sites, because: "For a long time he thought I was a construction worker."

No watching films together

At that time, Foster had already won two Oscars for best actress, for her roles in “The Accused” (1988) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991).

She came to world fame in 1976 as a 13-year-old in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" with Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel and others.

In it Foster, who had previously had a long series of appearances in TV and advertising as well as her first film roles, played an underage prostitute.

In the ABC interview, Foster explained that he felt strong compared to all the adult acting stars.

"I saw how they became completely nervous and couldn't handle me."

According to Foster, she and her sons, who are now in their 20s, have never seen their own films.

The two of them simply had no interest in it, and the sons didn't even want to see her in some roles - they already made fun of her often enough.

As an example, Foster cited her performance as “Nell” in 1994, a woman who grew up in a forest hut without any contact with strangers.

Her current leading role as a detective in Alaska in the fourth season of the HBO series “True Detective,” which has just started, might interest her sons, said Jodie Foster.

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