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Jodie Foster Says Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro Were Scared of Her on ‘Taxi Driver’ Set: “It Was a Little Awkward”

“I was 12. And they had to say things like, you know, ‘Can you pull his fly down?’” the Hollywood legend recalled while appearing on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Jodie Foster is speaking more about her experience as a 12-year-old acting in Taxi Driver with director Martin Scorsese and co-star Robert De Niro. What’s more, Foster, a child star who got her start in commercials at age 3, noted to Kimmel that she had made more movies than De Niro and Scorsese when Taxi Driver was shot in 1975. She teased the latest supernatural side of the anthology series by saying executive producer and season one star Matthew McConaughey is “in there somewhere, in the mix” and the high Arctic by saying, “the environment is like nothing else that we usually come into contact with.

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