Jodie Foster has revealed the sad reason she hasn’t appeared on stage in over 40 years. While the actress is known for her on-screen performances, such as The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused , she briefly appeared on stage while attending Yale University. However, one particularly “traumatic” moment that occurred more than 40 years ago has meant she hasn’t been on stage since.
The True Detective: Night Country star recently opened up about the moment she was horrified to learn John Hinckley Jr had attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in a bid to impress her. While the shooter was eventually acquitted on mental health grounds and committed to a hospital, the truth caused Foster’s world to “fall apart”. 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. “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 .
