Jodie Foster

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q41351: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Taxi Driver (1976); The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976); Foxes (1980); The Accused (1988); The Silence of the Lambs (1991); Contact (1997); Anna and the King (1999); Panic Room (2002); Inside Man (2006); True Detective (2014); The Mauritanian (2021); Nyad (2023); Elysium; Flight Plan; Nell; The Brave One; The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Count them as director (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Do the Right Thing (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Inside Man (2006), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read). In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.
    “In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Ed Gein: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-life source) · through The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which they acted in: Ed Gein ⇒ The Silence of the Lambs (the host's read). Ed Gein had a big Hollywood footprint; Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter touched on him.
    “A lot of people, silence the lambs, touched on Ed Geen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:19:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
    “But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Manhunter (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which they acted in: Manhunter ⇒ The Silence of the Lambs (the host's read). Silence of the Lambs and the Hannibal Lecter universe come in the aftermath of Manhunter.
    “Obviously, like Silence of the Lambs and the expanded Hannibal Lecter universe comes in the aftermath of this”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:49:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Murder by Contract: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Taxi Driver (1976), which they acted in: Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read). Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver.
    “very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Panic Room (2002): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Flight Plan, which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Seven (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through True Detective (2014), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read). Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending.
    “you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
    “Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Panic Room (2002): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which they acted in: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (led to) · them, directly: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Flight Plan: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Julia Butters: 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · them, directly: Jodie Foster ⇒ Julia Butters (the host's read). Some think Trudy is partly based on precocious professional Jodie Foster.
    “some people think it's sort of based on Jody Foster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:07:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
    “But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Taxi Driver (1976), which they acted in: Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read). Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature.
    “Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (26) everyone in acting

Other (8) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (10)

  1. career (career): Jodie Foster → Flight Plan. Panic Room gave Foster a second wave: Flight Plan, Inside Man and one more run.
    “This got kind of a 2nd wave for her where she ends up in flight plan and Inside Man and one more run.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jodie Foster → Taxi Driver. Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver.
    “and that goes all the way back to taxi driver.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Jodie Foster → Denzel Washington. In Inside Man Foster goes toe to toe with Denzel.
    “I'll go toe to toe with Denzel Washington.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Jodie Foster → Mel Gibson. In the last decade Foster has directed Mel Gibson and worked with Polanski, taking on complicated collaborators.
    “Like in the last 10 years, she directed Mel Gibson in a movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Jodie Foster → Roman Polanski. Foster collaborated with Polanski on a movie in 2011.
    “She collaborated with Roman Polanski on a movie in 2011.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Jodie Foster → Elysium. Foster plays the villain, a Condoleezza Rice stand-in.
    “You know, she's in Elysium as like basically the villain of that movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Jodie Foster → The Devil Wears Prada. Bill wonders if Foster had a Meryl Streep/Devil Wears Prada pop-culture moment in her.
    “Yeah, I wonder, like, did she have a devil wears Prada, Meryl Streep moment in her?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. career (career projection): Lindsay Lohan → Jodie Foster. After Freaky Friday, Ebert's comparison made it seem Lohan would be the next Jodie Foster, doing teen movies then winning Oscars.
    “So at this point, we're like, this is the next Jody Foster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:09:20 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. career (career comparison): Kristen Stewart → Jodie Foster. A host says Stewart is one of the few child stars to get a Jodie Foster type career.
    “she's one of the few who has gotten to have a Jody Foster type career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:23:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. career (unmade passion project): Jodie Foster → Flora Plum. Foster's passion project Flora Plum never got made after Russell Crowe hurt himself preparing.
    “Jody Foster was supposed to make Flora Plum, which is one of her grand passion project movies that never got made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Jodie Foster → Nell. Foster usually plays extreme people in extreme situations (Nell); Meg Altman is a normal person in one.
    “Like if you think about, you know, um, Nell or something like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:19 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Jodie Foster → Flora Plum. Foster was free because Flora Plum, which she was directing, shut down when Russell Crowe was injured.
    “She was directing some movie called Flora Plum, where Russell Crowe got injured, left the project, production shut down”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (inspiration): Jodie Foster → Julia Butters. Some think Trudy is partly based on precocious professional Jodie Foster.
    “some people think it's sort of based on Jody Foster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:07:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Jodie Foster → Foxes. Foster appeared in Foxes (1980) with Cherie Currie.
    “Jody Foster, in the movie Fox's, 1980.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (earlier near-collaboration): Jodie Foster → Mank. Foster and Fincher had circled each other before, including about Mank.
    “She had talked to him about mink, which is like already a thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (child-acting style): Sue Lyon → Jodie Foster. Five years later the part would get a Jodie Foster-style performance.
    “Like, if this movie is made 5 years later, you have someone giving like a Jody Foster-esque performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:25:14 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Jodie Foster → The Accused. Same steely-in-peril type in The Accused and Flight Plan.
    “in the accused or in this movie or even in the kind of more, you know, B grade stuff, like flight plan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (intervention): Jodie Foster → Robert Downey Jr.. On Home for the Holidays Foster confronted Downey about his behavior even though he still delivered.
    “Jody Foster would come in and be like, I know that no one calls you out on this because you're still able to deliver, but I will not let you behave this way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (turned down): Jodie Foster → Hannibal. Foster turned down $15 million to be in Hannibal, calling it gross, and was attacked in the press.
    “Jody Foster had famously to turn down $15 million to be in Hannibal because she thought it was.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (led to): Jodie Foster → Panic Room. The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Melanie Griffith → Jodie Foster. Comparing the two Best Actress performances, Griffith's might be the harder one.
    “I actually think this one might be harder in some ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Jodie Foster → The Silence of the Lambs. Sean still thinks Silence of the Lambs is the best thing she has been part of.
    “I still think is probably the best thing she's ever been a part of”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Jodie Foster → The Game. Foster was supposed to be in The Game at some point.
    “because I know that Jody Foster was supposed to be in the game at some point.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if casting): Jodie Foster → The Game. Foster was supposed to be in The Game, in the part Sean Penn played.
    “She was supposed to be in the game.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jodie Foster: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) is one of the five craziest movies you could ever rewatch; there's a dead person in the basement.
    “which is one of the 5 craziest movies you could ever rewatch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jodie Foster: Cherie Currie link: Foster costarred with her in Foxes (1980); Kristen Stewart later played Joan Jett to Currie in The Runaways.
    “See, it all comes full circle, CR.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jodie Foster: Foster had nine days to prep, then told Fincher five weeks in that she was pregnant.
    “And then she starts making the movie 5 weeks into the shoot, she sits down with David Hinchon. She's like, I'm pregnant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jodie Foster: Why Foster works for this role: she never projects less than total competence.
    “Foster never projects anything less than 100% competency and certainty.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:37:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Jodie Foster: She wanted to play the waitress; Fincher said she was too famous; she suggested sister, then daughter, then Douglas refused to play her father; she was written out and sued.
    “She then filed a huge lawsuit saying she was supposed to be in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:58:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)