{"id":2242173,"date":"2026-01-20T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2242173"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:39:19","slug":"jodie-foster-has-many-scars-from-being-attacked-by-lion-as-a-child-actor-the-scariest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jodie-foster-has-many-scars-from-being-attacked-by-lion-as-a-child-actor-the-scariest-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Foster Has \u201cMany Scars\u201d From Being Attacked by Lion as a Child Actor: \u201cThe Scariest Thing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000149\/\">Jodie Foster<\/a> is looking back at her terrifying experience with a lion while filming the 1972 Disney movie, Napoleon and Samantha, as a child.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Oscar winner recently shared during an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0688756\/\">W<\/a> Magazine that she has \u201cmany scars\u201d after being attacked by the big cat on set at nine years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was mauled by a lion when I was eight-and-a-half or nine,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThe lion picked me up, shook me around, moved me horizontally, and then dropped me. I had two perfect punctures on one side and then two perfect punctures on the other, on my hip. But as the years have gone on and we get bigger, you know, who even knows where they are anymore. They kind of just move around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33852162\/\">A Private Life<\/a> actress noted that the scary encounter wasn\u2019t filmed, as it happened \u201cafter the shot was over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in shock,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jodie Foster is looking back at her terrifying experience with a lion while filming the 1972 Disney movie, Napoleon and Samantha, as a child. The two-time Oscar winner recently shared during an interview with W Magazine that she has \u201cmany scars\u201d after being attacked by the big cat on set at nine years old. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2242174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2242173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jodie-Foster-Has-Many-Scars-From-Being-Attacked-by-Lion.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242175,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242173\/revisions\/2242175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}