Jodie Foster revealed why she didn’t tell her kids she was a Hollywood star while they were growing up.
‘I guess I just didn’t want them to know me that way,’ the Oscar winner, 61, said on Friday’s The View. ‘I wanted them to know me as their mom and the person who went away to work and stuff.’
‘I just didn’t want them to be confused about what I did for a living,’ she added.
The Silence of the Lambs alum – who stars with Annette Bening in Nyad – then hilariously recalled what her older son, Charles, 25, believed she did when she brought him to a film set every day.
‘And I was like, “Yeah, and this is this set and this set and this set. And for a really long time, he thought I was a construction worker. He thought I did construction’.
Jodie Foster, 61, revealed she didn’t tell her kids she was a Hollywood star while they were growing up
The Silence of the Lambs alum hilariously recalled that her older son, Charles, 25, believed she was a ‘construction worker’; Jodie with sons Charlie and Kit in 2012
With both Charles and her younger son, Christopher ‘Kit’, 22, now adults, Jodie was asked about whether she has watched any of her films with them.
‘They have no interest in watching my movies with me. I think they’re going to catch True Detective ’cause they’re really into that,’ she said of her HBO series.
‘There’s a few films that I would never show them because I would be worried about being teased, like Nell for example, they’ve never seen because they do tease me often about that, even though they’ve never seen the movie.’
Jodie shares her two sons with her former partner, Cydney Bernard. Foster is their biological mother, the biological father’s identity has not been made public.
Following their separation in 2008, the actress tied the knot with Alexandra Hedison in 2014.
The appearance on The View comes after Jodie spent quality time bonding with Kit in New York in November.
Kit is currently working as a research assistant at Princeton University, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Regarding his scientific aspirations, the versatile student wrote, ‘I especially enjoy the physical and organic subfields though I can’t decide which one I like more.
Jodie currently stars as Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of HBO/Max drama True Detective.
‘I guess I just didn’t want them to know me that way,’ the Oscar winner said on Friday’s The View. ‘I wanted them to know me as their mom and the person who went away to work and stuff’
Jodie currently stars as Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of HBO/Max drama True Detective
Danvers, along with her partner Detective Evangeline Navarro, played by Keli Reis, is tasked with finding out how a group of men working at a research facility in Alaska disappeared.
Danvers, along with her partner Detective Evangeline Navarro, played by Keli Reis, is tasked with finding out how a group of men working at a research facility in Alaska disappeared.
The pair will ‘confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice,’ according to the network.
The new season debuted January 14.
