Jodie Foster hasn't appeared in a play for over 40 years as a result of a "traumatic" incident during a college production. The 'True Detective: Night Country' actress was horrified to learn John Hinckley Jr. had attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in a bid to impress her and despite the incident - for which the shooter was eventually acquitted on mental health grounds and committed to a hospital - causing her world to "fall apart", Jodie was determined the Yale University show must go on.
Speaking to Jodie Comer for Interview magazine, she said: "I’m finally able to admit that the one bit of theatre I did when I was in college, there was so much trauma involved in it—well, just quickly, the play happened in two weekends, and I did the first weekend, and in between the first weekend and the second weekend, John Hinckley shot the president...
It was a huge moment. "It was a long time ago. You probably don’t even know, but he shot him in order to impress me, and he had written letters to me, so it was a big moment in my life.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "The world fell apart, there were Secret Service people everywhere, I had bodyguards, and I had to be taken to a safe house, and I was in the middle of these two weekends of this play, and I had the dumb idea of 'the show must go on.' "So I was like, 'I have to do that second weekend'.
I'd just turned 18. Jodie opted to vent her frustrations by "us.
