Name: Jodie Foster Thought Acting Was A "Dumb Job" Til Working With De Niro | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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I have a very clear memory of the first time I met you, which is I was skiing.

And there's this friend of mine who I ran into.

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And he said, I'm skiing with my friend Jody.

So I'm skiing, and we're zipping along, and we get down to where.

And I noticed that he said, oh, my friend Jody's down here by the lift.

And I went, all right, let's go, you know, check in on Jody, whoever that is.

I remember you, like, took off your goggles and said, oh, hi, Jodie.

And I was like, oh, oh, that's my happy place.

You like it because of the anonymity and also.

No, I like the idea of a sport where if you stop being in the present moment, you might die, you might hit a tree or something.

And there's something really relaxing about that.

You can't think about taxes or you can't think.

That's why I play Russian Roulette every night.

You know, it's so funny because I've since gotten to know you much better.

And even though there's a lot of ambivalence on your end, it's interesting to me because I don't think this is discussed as much with you because you've had such an iconic career in film and it's had so many different levels.

But I was a TV kid growing up in the 70s, and

my brother Neil made sure that we watched all the westerns, you know, Bonanzas and all in the, you know, what's it, House on the Prairie, you know, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone.

And, you know, we also watched Courtship of Eddie's Father.

Cause we haven't really ever had a chance to talk about it.

A world where you're on the set of Bonanza.

And these are iconic shows from, as you know, Matt, like from the 50s and 60s and 70s.

Yeah, I was on every, you know, every kind of bad television show in the 70s.

I have a brother, Neil, who watches all these shows.

He's got an encyclopedic knowledge of them.

And if I randomly called him and said, oh, I saw Jodie Foster today, he'd say she was excellent in season 13 of Bonanza.

And then he had Bernie Copel as the scientist.

And he'll often say to me, like, did you mention to Jody?

I mean, I thought I'd talk about some of her Oscar winning roles and stuff.

Yeah, there's something, you know, really.

There was something really comforting about that.

It doesn't 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 when you laid in your bed and then you had the black and white TV and you had to go up to the knob and change the station every time you were dissatisfied.

So, you know, Nanny and the professor and Adam 12 and, you know, the Perry Mason and the Rockford Files or, you know, have you ever spent any time looking back on those just to see because they're almost like home movies for you.

There's a couple that are on Instagram that occasionally my friends will say, like, hey, look at this.

It's kind of cute because my mom didn't take pictures of me.

I think taking pictures of your kids got expensive at that era.

So she took pictures of my brothers and sisters, but not of me.

So the only pictures that I have really are these video clips and clips from television shows.

So you're always wearing a 19th century bonnet.

And I have lots of weird memories that are associated with that.

Like, I had to play, like this kind of wild child who was all dirty.

And I was living on my own and surviving in the forest, and

the prop men had planted different edible things that, you know, you could pull out the.

And you could just eat them, and they would look like you were this savage person.

And I remember, you know, going through the weeds in a scene, and

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