“Jodie Foster doesn’t want to be an actor – and never has (Picture: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Jodie Foster, whose first on screen appearance was in a commercial aged three, has admitted she never would have chosen the ‘cruel’ job of acting if it was her decision. The 63-year-old reflected on her”, — write: metro.co.uk
Jodie Foster doesn’t want to be an actor – and never has (Picture: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Jodie Foster, whose first on screen appearance was in a commercial aged three, has admitted she never would have chosen the ‘cruel’ job of acting if it was her decision.
The 63-year-old reflected on her career at the Marrakesh film festival, lamenting her life’s work as a wrong decision made for her as a child which she doesn’t remember signing up to.
Further to this, Jodie is ‘not interested’ in acting ‘for the sake of acting’ and if stranded on a desert island, the last thing she would do is act.
Following Jodie’s first commercial aged three, the star went on to appear in more adverts, and got into sitcoms in the 60s, before landing her first film role aged six.
Aged 12 she went on to appear in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which she she played a child prostitute.
Reflecting on her younger years as a child star, according to The Guardian Jodie said at the festival she ‘would never have chosen to be an actor, I don’t have the personality of an actor. I’m not somebody that wants to dance on a table and, you know, sing songs for people’.
She added: ‘It’s actually just a cruel job that was chosen for me as a young person that I don’t remember starting.’
She called her job ‘cruel’ (Picture: Maya Dehlin Spach/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images) 
Jodie was a child star in the 1970s, and is pictured here starring in Tom Sawyer (Photo by United Artists/Getty Images) Jodie finds herself ‘reaching out to the young child actors of this era. I feel like, wait, where are their parents? And why is nobody telling them that they should stop doing so many movies or maybe not be so drunk on the red carpet? I want to take care of them because I know how dangerous it is’.
The Silence of the Lambs star explained: ‘I don’t know why anyone would want to be an actor now, if they knew that in order to be excellent they would have to contend with being robbed of their life in a way.
‘I don’t know how you make sense of that except to have what my mom helped me do, which is to have this very firm delineation between your private life and your public life.’
