Jodie Foster Talks About Preparing for Her Role in Taxi Driver | Carson Tonight Show

Original Airdate: 03/15/1978
#johnnycarson #thetonightshow #jodiefoster

[@draff1662]

Decades later I now watch Johnny every late again on YT. Interesting how it came around again. These interviews are amazing. Jodie Foster is intelligent and accomplished - far better than most adults on talk shows these days. Thanks for posting these.

[@gamernorcal]

johnny was the best. he's better than anyone doing late night today. The only one I like is Conan but he quit his show.

[@patbrown2699]

She is just brilliant, and an incredible actress, I love her!!!

[@valmacclinchy]

Absolutely. I love to watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (along with a list of other excellent thrillers) around Halloween. Jodie is one of the best actors, ever.

[@gorgeoustouche]

Compare her here to how she is now I interviews. So uptight and looks constipated in interviews these days.

[@MaxStax1]

I could listen to Jodie talk all day.

[@RacismIsOK]

She's "easy" to listen to!

[@artsyhyd]

I like how he tried to comfort Jodie and explained to her when she said most boys dont like her, it’s like a father trying to comfort his daughter about teenage matters 😁

[@jv-lk7bc]

only with an extra twist most people didn't know about yet ;) Notably she was *very* certain when she said "never".

[@sickofthestupid1067]

the "Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane" is one of my all time favorite movies.

[@valmacclinchy]

Same!

[@ericpreusser8450]

She really was mature beyond her years!

[@KD....]

Seems like a normal highschool girl to me.

[@fretbuzz59]

@@KD.... Normal high school girl? No.

[@KD....]

@@fretbuzz59 Perhaps not a normal modern highschool girl, since even young adults in this day and age behave like buffoons and aren't exactly the most articulate bunch.

[@fretbuzz59]

@@KD.... That's kind of what we're getting at. Though I'd say she was more poised even than the typical high school girl of her day.

[@KD....]

@@fretbuzz59 Were you in highschool (or even alive) back in her highschool day?

[@Moonraker11]

Jodie is just over 15 years old in this interview and she is amazingly mature and confident for someone her age...

[@gamernorcal]

Seems like Kids were much more 'adult' by 16-18 during those times.

[@kevinburke6055]

Then This is before John Hinckley

[@PuppetMasterdaath144]

Yes she is extremely pretty agree

[@jv-lk7bc]

she was already a successful independent businesswoman (in addition to recognized in her craft) by then, and it showed.

[@teresa5007]

I believe Jodie was a gifted child.As well as acting, she speaks fluent French and she finished University.

[@1968scottyd]

So love s÷ing these episodes. 1968 here grew up with Johnny!

[@code-52]

Do you have a steady boyfriend? No, never! And she meant it!

[@jillkjv3816]

And Johnny knew immediately what she meant but played dumb. :)

[@code-52]

@@jillkjv3816 I'm not so sure of that. I said the same thing at that age, I wish I had stuck to it.

[@jillkjv3816]

@@code-52 Lol, me too. 🤣

[@jillkjv3816]

@@terminator0 I think he did. :) He dodged pretty quickly after that moment.

[@kevinburke6055]

She was always a closet lesbian

[@hadibq]

Feeling lucky to discover Johnny Carson's show in 2021 and time traveling by watching his great interviews 👌

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

This girl barely 14-15 yrs old here and has the wit, intellect & wiseness of a 80 yr old saint. No wonder Jodie Foster became one of the greatest women to live

[@jlucasound]

She married a woman.

[@sempercompellis]

well she had been around adults her entire life... big big stars as well- thats why there seems to be this "no big deal" attidude eminating from her being on Carson.. The only thing about that life is the same as home school kids, they always seems a little oblique when compared with kids their own age...just a little "off"...Regardless..an american treasure

[@lorimast]

I loved watching Jodie Foster Disney movies as a kid. Then I watched her as an adult. It’s fun to see these stars I grew up loving way back when.

[@Broughton1128]

*Jodie & Johnny. Two bonafide LEGENDS.* 🤎

[@TrainerInTraining]

she's very intelligent and scarily a bit direct for a kid ... and not intimidated by people/adults - for sure. Very proud of herself and let's you know it. Confident in her intelligence and talent. And compared to how we hear 15 yr olds speak - she has an amazing command of the language and can converse with the best of 'em! She is still exactly the same as an adult. I would have loved her to have had an IQ test at this age.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Jodie and I are the same age and, growing up, I had an enormous crush on her. I loved her in Napoleon and Samantha, Tom Sawyer, and Candleshoe. I did not see her more serious roles until much later. Of course, i had no idea she was batting for the other team.

[@ProducersInk]

I forgot all about TOM SAWYER! As with you, I am the same age and Becky was so pretty!

[@BradwillB]

She's an acting genius ❤

[@Lonely3rrior]

Thank you so much for uploading all these old shows on KZbin. ❤

[@Victoriaeveable]

She was always amazing.

[@mexic8l]

And she still is!

[@Military-Museum-LP]

Most of the boys don’t like me……she knew what she wanted at 15.

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

A True Legend!! 😎👍 And Two Time Academy Award Winner! 👌👍🍁♈

[@BBelle64]

Fabulous. My day has now begun in a nostalgic longing for the past.

[@maidacameron4093]

She is an amazing talented beautiful human. Jodie crossed the barrier from child actor to adult roles so wonderfully. Her mother really guided her very carefully.

[@johnjomennelson8631ForEveryone]

I have been in love with Jodie Foster my whole life.

[@meijer78]

Brilliant actress!!

[@RoyJones.]

For me her best roles was from "Panic Room" & "Flight Plan" two classic thrillers

[@Kinesiology411]

The Accused and Silence of the Lambs were amazing performances.

[@siddharthnaagar8431]

It's just extraordinary that she's 14 here & possess the intellect, maturity & self assuredness of a veteran

[@angeloreyes357]

Beautiful..witty,fast talking talented jodie..❤

[@parthoroy9141]

Man, she was so young in this interview! Amazing

[@jewelzb1402]

I always loved Jodie Foster…still do, but haven’t seen her in anything in awhile. COME BACK JODIE!!!

[@danibahde21]

Her mother raised her well. Living legend Jodie Foster

[@michaelknapp8961]

Fabulous actress and fabulous human being!!!

[@mark11967AD]

She is just extremely bright and pleasant and centered here. I sometimes think rather then evolve some people have lives where they peak early or middle or later into the best version of themselves and can change again quite severely sometimes. Not saying this is true about Jodie Foster but she certainly seems very peaceful and assured here as a superior version of any person really.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

Excellent episode 👏🏻🥰‼️

[@18steps]

I literally just finished watching Candleshoe tonight. I enjoyed it!

[@james-p]

There's still no talk talk show host anywhere near as good as Johnny Carson was.

[@macmcleod1188]

Craig Fergeson was comparable but different. But otherwise... agreed.

[@johndalton3180]

Johnny had such a relaxed and natural style of interviewing. When he liked or enjoyed a person, as he does with Jodie here, you could tell it.

[@missdee4927]

Jodie was always the coolest.

[@howardford6991]

She played FBI agent Clarice Starling in "Silence Of The Lambs". An absolutely chilling movie!

[@phillipsmom6252]

I actually thought that was her best role in a movie ever.👍

[@JoshPosh-wk6hx]

​@phillipsmom6252 really? 😅

[@kreedsutherland4207]

No way really? I also liked Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in this little hidden gem he did called Pirates of the Carribean. An absolute cinematic masterpiece!

[@kayleigh2245]

@@kreedsutherland4207Lmfao

[@therealxunil2]

No kidding? Duh

[@operator6471]

Master class in how to handle an interview.

[@LiterarySahitya]

*“Wow! this guy's a genius.”* 😂

[@richardsantoso9729]

She was one of my loveliest crush in the 1970s and 1980s.

[@csmith5420]

I doubt it took that long for most too wonder. But she grew up and found stardom pre-Internet so there wasn’t the public discussion.

[@jojopuppyfish]

3:02 Johnny: "Do You have a steady boyfriend?" Jodie: No. Never Johnny: What do you mean, never? Jodie: Johnny, I like women.

[@bethsullivan4613]

Jodi NEVER said that! Why would you purposely LIE about that??? Seriously! It's not funny in the least bit and it's a complete LIE! I don't know if she does now but she absolutely did NOT that! That's disgusting to tell a blatant lie!

[@valmacclinchy]

@@bethsullivan4613 Jodie has been married to a woman since 2014. Take a few deep breaths lol

[@siggylloyd3566]

@@bethsullivan4613 take it easy, kid. We get that you can't understand it. No worries; we don't need you.

[@byzinski]

@@bethsullivan4613 THAT WAS SARCASM..get over it Snowflake ❄️ 😅

[@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou]

🤣🤣

[@pattibrooks1907]

very good video

[@mirazusta2002]

Jodie Foster's confidence back then made her already the perfect choice for a movie maker with a good story to tell.

[@stephenfermoyle4578]

amazing

[@CharlesRBiggs]

Loved her in Tom Sawyer musical from 1970s

[@karenleemallonee684]

I have never seen any of the movies they spoke of but for Candleshoe, it was really good as I recall. My favorite film she did was, Contact... brilliant! I really like the one where her young son & her were hiding in their house when robbers broke in, it had Forrest Tucker in it. 👍👍

[@kasondaleigh]

Panic Room was with her and a very young Kirsten Stewart I think.

[@karenleemallonee684]

@@kasondaleigh Thank you, yes, Panic Room...so good!

[@valmacclinchy]

Yes, I love Contact. Amazing movie. Jodie's always great in every role she plays. Legend.

[@karenleemallonee684]

@@valmacclinchy I think I need to do a day of Jodie Foster films and catch up on the ones I haven't seen!

[@jlglover4592]

Forrest Whittaker was in Panic Room. Forrest Tucker was in F-Troop, among others.

[@LiterarySahitya]

back then when they actually talked in talk shows.

[@Nightshade1881]

So no one talk in talk shows anymore? 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jchow5966]

Johnny was the brst. Jody is terrific tpo.

[@CheriBomzArt]

Can't wait to see True Detective with her in it

[@pc3244]

2024 & she is still amazing.

[@sugansugan56]

She is so charming and mature

[@bestaghenbertkeushtad7201]

Elle est tellement brillante. Elle pense en français quant elle parle.

[@swhmetta]

She was impressive

[@valmacclinchy]

Always.

[@jaymee8657]

I think she is an impressive actress but i find her interviews awkward and halting . She seems nervous

[@Kinesiology411]

She still is.

[@Kinesiology411]

​@@jaymee8657she's 15 here, lol. As an adult, she's quite calm and gracious in interviews.

[@mexicanspec]

John Davidson? Don't touch his hair. He gets angry about that.

[@joycejohnson7164]

Alice Doesn't Live Here she was so great in....

[@MisterNiceguy-i1k]

Lol😂😂😂😂😂I got a link with that one😂😂😂😂😂

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

When asked if she has a steady boyfriend, she was truthful when she said “No, never”.

[@ping2008100]

Imagine being young and gay, having to answer questions on national television about dating the opposite sex. BRAVE

[@plasticity1000]

She's always learning even to this day.

[@historybuff1483]

Unbelievable how long it took the public to realize she liked girls lol

[@teresa5007]

I believe she was raised by a single mother who was a lesbian and in a relationship with another woman while Jodie was growing up.

[@historybuff1483]

@ cool, but that has zero to do with Jodie preferring girls.

[@MrAschiff]

Jodie was a prodigy.

[@emilyaustralis]

Why do you always cut the previews they show . .?

[@kcmule]

licensing I'm sure

[@davidpanetta6400]

Everything on tv and radio is protected under the copyright law. If it is shown without written consent of the copyright owner, all parties involved can be sued including KZbin.

[@Kinesiology411]

Copyright restrictions.

[@PittheadX]

Mention the damn year when uploading it.

[@susanb2015]

It says 3/15/78.

[@PittheadX]

@@susanb2015 Thanx..

[@FilmFanaticCommentaries69]

Boy is she smart!

[@arlichar11]

so was born in 79, and didnt know of jodie until little man tate time period , and of course silence of the lambs is near masterpiece! and shes always been an amazing actress and highly regarded , but i didnt realize she was doing movies so young.. the really odd thing is there was long gap between taxi driver and accused.. and after nell she never really made any good movies at all. what the heck happened ?

[@missdee4927]

The first long gap was because she went away to Ivy League college. Contact was a good movie. That was after Nell. She slowed down after she had kids.

[@arlichar11]

@@missdee4927 oh thank for info..

[@FelixBomer-ox5br]

BTW she's 14 here. A literal genius.

[@frankpeter6851]

"I'd die of curiosity, wouldn't you?"

[@MichaelHaddad-wf1wn]

For me I can think that back in the day from 50s-mid 90s were awesome when there were no technology and Browsing Websites, but today we don't get any good Talk Shows, Classic Movies and Classic Actors anymore.

[@oldfarmshow]

👍❤️

[@johnny-r]

Amazing how bright and articulate a 10th grader can be when she's not brain-mashed by technology and cell phone addiction. Today's 10th graders have all the mental sharpness of 4 year olds 40 years ago.

[@johnny-r]

@@jazzfan67 You sound pretty bright and are quite articulate. Are you from another country? Or another planet? If you're from America, I don't need to tell you that your peers are fucking walking disasters, and you should be able to rise to the top and get anything you want out of life.

[@432b86ed]

Now - how on earth would it cut in on anyone's action to show a 10 second clip of an old movie?

[@LaineyTsang]

Right? I don’t understand why they’re allowed to post the full episode, but not any of the clips guests brought to go with their interviews. The whole episode, clips/trailers and all, should be already cleared, long ago. Yet, I never see any clips in any videos of episodes of old or currently running TV shows like this. I don’t get it.

[@bryanlund2730]

Total natural and Martin saw it.

[@garnet0101]

Very intelligent she is. Not only an amazing actress, but left film for a bit to graduate top from Yale.

[@GG-xs8vt]

Very smart and confident at 15. Coppertone little girl ,cute. I remember that.

[@willswalkingwest7267]

Her voice is changing like a boy's. It was quite evident she'd be playing for the other team at an early age. Regardless, she's a brilliant actor.

[@celebratelife8436]

Wow Jodie Foster managed to stay that age

[@deealone5191]

It was funny how she said that because Michael Jackson seemed to be the same way: staying as a child as an adult.

[@Archway_Archie]

Was Jodie Foster ever a child? She’s so mature here.

[@ultrakool]

Dad! Dad! Jodie?! I only had one cavity!

[@davidcoles198]

A lot of actors are always the same personality but not Jodie, a true actress.

[@1BSDjunkie]

Jodie was also the coppertone girl with the doggie pulling her drawers.

[@Kinesiology411]

Yes, she said that. Did you watch this?

[@1BSDjunkie]

I don’t remember if I had watched this a year ago, but I did just now re-watch the interview. She was also on the Kung Fu series. Makes me want to watch Taxi Driver again! Love Jodie Foster!

[@RichaRd_JeRome]

BecKy in Tom SawyeR

[@drumbum3.142]

☺️😊

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

3:03 New gay silence meme

[@vijai3]

Yeah she is extremely short but she extremely gorgeous at this stage.....

[@dennisp3314]

Man, there is someone who knows herself, with no apologies.

[@mack8488]

The " and i always wanna stay this young" with the litle eyebrow raise at the end...she knew she was into girls and let carson know it too...😉

[@mexic8l]

The way she talks is like she's from "right now" instead of from "back then".

[@MrS98VAC]

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

[@valariewillis6000]

Wow,,,, her teeth

[@keto6789]

That's how natural teeth look. Today's teeth have veneers and are artificially straightened.

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Alicia Christian Foster (Los Ángeles, California, 19 de noviembre de 1962), más conocida como Jodie Foster, es una actriz de cine y directora de cine estadounidense. 61 AÑOS.

[@szvqorwnpstahskypfwmp9821]

She already knew at an early age she would never date a man.

[@KARYTTAH_SpiritaPopMetal_BAND]

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[@petesmitt]

Do you have a boyfriend? NEVER; father never there and lesbian mother.. 🤔

[@juliekane7210]

The girl down the lane was very scary.

[@mluthfialifs4636]

hey jodie foster, is that your new chevrolet i see that it's got a lot of miles on it

[@Themheals]

I love women with calm natural lower register voices. She is such a beauty

[@nicolevillarrealmelissa6955]

2008 Keyshia canady Halloween 5 2007

[@arrietamarcos5614]

Estoy contento que Messi haya ganado su octavo ballon d’or

[@thomasappelby1202]

Do you have a boyfriend? No, never!

[@svjim1]

Well, there was one boy she would find out later.