Key Points<\/h2>\n\n- Jodie Foster began acting young, appearing frequently on 1970s television shows.<\/li>\n
- Foster recalls unusual childhood acting moments, like eating fennel for the first time on set.<\/li>\n
- She recently narrated a Netflix documentary about classic 1975 films.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
Jodie Foster\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> career is unique. She started as a child actor on television, was nominated for an Academy Award at 12 years old, and continues to work in the industry as a director. Her early memories include acting in a scene, and her childhood photos are part of television history. Foster, 63, revealed one of those memories to Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\nJodie Foster Ate Fennel for the First Time for TV Role<\/h2>\n
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In the 1976 comedy Freaky Friday, starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, a mother and daughter switch personalities and must live one day in each other\u2019s bodies. <\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nO\u2019Brien, 62, said he watched Westerns<\/a> on TV in the \u201870s from previous decades on his podcast, \u201cConan Needs a Friend.<\/a>\u201d \u201cAnd you were a fixture on these shows, and it\u2019s fascinating,\u201d he told Jodie Foster<\/a>. The child star played Bluebird in Bonanza and Joey Kelly in The Courtship of Eddie\u2019s Father. She also played Patricia, Susan Sadler, and Marieanne in Gunsmoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re iconic, but I don\u2019t know how good they were,\u201d Foster admitted. \u201cI was on every kind of bad television show in the \u201870s.\u201d However, she knows they were important to people for a different reason. \u201cThere was something really comforting about that,\u201d The Silence of the Lambs star told the host. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel the same way anymore when you lie in your bed with your covers on watching TV the way it did in the old days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actress has strange memories from acting during that time. Foster played a child living in the wild, and there were edible plants around her. \u201cI remember going through the weeds in a scene,\u201d she said. \u201cI pulled out this thing, and I ate a bite of it, and it was fennel.\u201d The plant was \u201cdelicious\u201d and new to her.<\/p>\n
Foster doesn\u2019t look back at her old guest star appearances. But her friends show her videos of her work as a child star sometimes on social media. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of cute because my mom didn\u2019t take pictures of me,\u201d the Oscar winner explained. \u201cI think taking pictures of your kids got expensive at that era.\u201d Her first roles are the only \u201cpictures\u201d she has of her childhood. Foster recently helped people look back at history by narrating the Netflix<\/a> documentary, Breakdown: 1975. It focuses on the classic movies<\/a> from that year.<\/p>\n\nAbout the author<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/parade.com\/.image\/w_3840,q_auto:good,c_fill,ar_1:1\/ODowMDAwMDAwMDAxNDk5Njcy\/dscf2472.jpg?arena_f_auto\"\/)
<\/div>\nNicole Weaver has covered entertainment news since 2014. She is passionate about well-written television and film. This led to her screenwriting spec scripts. Her\u00a0Big Brother\u00a0interviews started to go viral for offering a Black perspective on the game and advocating for women in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jodie Foster\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> career is unique. She started as a child actor on television, was nominated for an Academy Award at 12 years old, and continues to work in the industry as a director. Her early memories include acting in a scene, and her childhood photos are part of television history. Foster, 63, revealed one of those memories to Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the 1976 comedy Freaky Friday, starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, a mother and daughter switch personalities and must live one day in each other\u2019s bodies. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n O\u2019Brien, 62, said he watched Westerns<\/a> on TV in the \u201870s from previous decades on his podcast, \u201cConan Needs a Friend.<\/a>\u201d \u201cAnd you were a fixture on these shows, and it\u2019s fascinating,\u201d he told Jodie Foster<\/a>. The child star played Bluebird in Bonanza and Joey Kelly in The Courtship of Eddie\u2019s Father. She also played Patricia, Susan Sadler, and Marieanne in Gunsmoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re iconic, but I don\u2019t know how good they were,\u201d Foster admitted. \u201cI was on every kind of bad television show in the \u201870s.\u201d However, she knows they were important to people for a different reason. \u201cThere was something really comforting about that,\u201d The Silence of the Lambs star told the host. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel the same way anymore when you lie in your bed with your covers on watching TV the way it did in the old days.\u201d<\/p>\n The actress has strange memories from acting during that time. Foster played a child living in the wild, and there were edible plants around her. \u201cI remember going through the weeds in a scene,\u201d she said. \u201cI pulled out this thing, and I ate a bite of it, and it was fennel.\u201d The plant was \u201cdelicious\u201d and new to her.<\/p>\n Foster doesn\u2019t look back at her old guest star appearances. But her friends show her videos of her work as a child star sometimes on social media. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of cute because my mom didn\u2019t take pictures of me,\u201d the Oscar winner explained. \u201cI think taking pictures of your kids got expensive at that era.\u201d Her first roles are the only \u201cpictures\u201d she has of her childhood. Foster recently helped people look back at history by narrating the Netflix<\/a> documentary, Breakdown: 1975. It focuses on the classic movies<\/a> from that year.<\/p>\n Nicole Weaver has covered entertainment news since 2014. She is passionate about well-written television and film. This led to her screenwriting spec scripts. Her\u00a0Big Brother\u00a0interviews started to go viral for offering a Black perspective on the game and advocating for women in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source parade.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Key Points Jodie Foster began acting young, appearing frequently on 1970s television shows. Foster recalls unusual childhood acting moments, like eating fennel for the first time on set. She recently narrated a Netflix documentary about classic 1975 films. Jodie Foster\u2019s career is unique. 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<\/p>\nAbout the author<\/h2>\n
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