Jodie Foster says Hollywood nearly turned her into someone she couldn’t live with. In a candid interview, the Oscar-winning actress admitted that fame pushed her toward becoming an “a–hole,” a realization that ultimately led her to step away from the industry. When speaking about her decision to quit acting after turning 50, Foster traced it back to … Read more
Robert De Niro didn’t impress Jodie Foster at first on the “Taxi Driver” set. During an appearance at the Marrakech Film Festival on Sunday, Foster, 63, recalled meeting De Niro, 82, when she was 12 years old to shoot Martin Scorsese’s 1976 psychologically thriller. De Niro, according to Foster, took the young actress “under his … Read more
Anthony Hopkins is setting the record straight. The actor, 87, shut down rumors that he and his “Silence of the Lambs” co-star, Jodie Foster, were feuding while making the 1991 classic. “I met Jodie, and she was very nice,” Hopkins recalled while on the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “There’s quotes that Jodie never spoke to me. That’s … Read more
It doesn’t take a true detective to know this was a sticky situation. Jodie Foster is reflecting on hosting “Saturday Night Live” right after her 14th birthday in November of 1976 during the show’s sophomore season. “My bad memory of that is that right before I went on, like maybe a half an hour before I … Read more
Jodie Foster isn’t feeling freaky. The Oscar winner, 62, allegedly declined to make a cameo appearance in the upcoming “Freaky Friday” sequel with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis — after starring in the original 1976 movie that kicked off the body-swapping franchise. “We begged her,” said “Freakier Friday” director Nisha Ganatra in a new interview … Read more
Sofía Vergara is sick of losing. The “Griselda” star, 52, had a big reaction to Jodie Foster winning the award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture—Television at the 2025 Golden Globes over her. After Foster, 62, got on stage to accept her trophy, Vergara leapt up from her seat and shouted, “No! No! … Read more
“True Detective” fans can expect plenty of “really f – – ked up stuff” in the series’ upcoming fifth season, showrunner Issa López has exclusively told The Post. Season 5 will mark López’s second season at the helm of the anthology crime drama, after taking over from series creator Nic Pizzolatto in Season 4, “True … Read more
Nicole Kidman is grateful to Jodie Foster for replacing her in 2002’s “Panic Room” when she was “having a breakdown.” “There’s this misconception that somehow female actresses are at each other, or they don’t like each other or whatever,” Foster, 61, told The Hollywood Reporter during a roundtable discussion with Kidman, Naomi Watts, Brie Larson, Jennifer Aniston, Anna … Read more
Jodie Foster isn’t lion about the perils of moviemaking. The 61-year-old star of “True Detective: Night Country” recalled what could have been the first and last role of her life after a scary run-in with a lion during filming for the 1972 Disney film “Napoleon and Samantha.” “We finished a take and I was going … Read more
The Force was almost with Jodie Foster. Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster revealed Wednesday that she was once offered the iconic role of Princess Leia from the “Star Wars” franchise. Foster, 61, made the revelation during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” while promoting her new HBO series, “True Detective: Night Country.” … Read more
Jodie Foster was just 12 when she starred in director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic “Taxi Driver.” The Oscar winner, now 61, played a teenage prostitute named Iris alongside Robert De Niro as the titular cab driver Travis Bickle. Foster revealed on a recent episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that both Scorsese, 81, and De Niro, … Read more
After a nearly five-year hiatus, “True Detective” is back for Season 4 with stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. “It was really interesting to see how [Foster] portrayed [her character] as such an a – – hole. But in all the right ways,” Reis, 37, told The Post. “It’s such a button-pusher to [my character] Navarro.” … Read more
Getting a phone call from a serial killer is the kind of thing most people would find unsettling. For Jana Monroe, it was just another day at work. It was the early 1990s and Monroe, who had been an FBI agent for just over five years — and was the only woman in the FBI’s … Read more
Debating the merits of the Academy’s Best Picture winner is a time-honored tradition for any Oscars fan. As it turns out, even the Academy’s voters sometimes have second thoughts. In 2015, a Hollywood Reporter survey found that a majority would like to go back and change their 1977 votes for “Rocky” to “All the President’s … Read more
A well-known director wanted to put Anne Heche back in the closet. In a newly revealed excerpt from her unfinished memoir “Call Me Anne,” Heche, who died in August at 53 following a fiery car crash, detailed an encounter with Hollywood heavyweight Ivan Reitman shortly after her 1997 romance with Ellen DeGeneres became public. … Read more