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jodie foster She remembers being in a “sticky” situation the night she hosted. Saturday night Live At the age of 14.
Foster, now 62, was the youngest host snl History When he presented the sketch show on 27 November 1976, the same year he also acted in Martin Scorsese’s taxi driverThat record has since been broken drew barrymorewho was only 7 years old when she hosted snl In 1982.
talking to Entertainment WeeklyFoster recalled a “bad memory” of the night.
“Right before I left, maybe a half hour before I left, I drank what was called an Orange Julius,” she explained, referring to the frothy, smoothie-like citrus drink.
“I had a big Orange Julius and it spilled on my pants. And they were like, ‘Well, we don’t have time. [change],’ then, the whole [monologue]I was clingy.
Foster noted that she never returned to her host. snl – Who recently returned for season 51 – She said, “I may have been asked, but I never did it again.” Asked if she was interested in returning to the show, Foster said: “I don’t know. Probably not.”
his clear memory snl The gig comes months later He observed that he did not understand why young actors accepted roles in “bad” films.
Her own career began when she worked as a model When she was just three years old. He was nominated for his first Oscar taxi driver Less than a decade later at the age of 12.
talking to Diversity, Foster said that she still enjoys acting but that she is selective about her projects and is not interested in “acting for the sake of acting”.
She said, “I look at a lot of young actors and I’m not saying I’m jealous, but I don’t understand how they want to act. They don’t care that the movie is bad. They don’t care that the dialogue is bad. They don’t care that they’re grapes in a Fruit of the Loom commercial.”
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“If I never acted again, I wouldn’t really care. I really like being a character for a story or for cinema. If I could do something else, if I were a writer or a painter or a sculptor, that would be cool too. But that’s the only skill I have.”
She said that in her career, by the time she turned 18, she had done “so much work” that she needed to take a different approach when choosing her projects.
Foster will be seen next a private life, A French thriller in which she plays a physician who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide is a murder.