Jodie Foster was just 12 when she starred in director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic “Taxi Driver.”
The Oscar winner, now 61, played a teenage prostitute named Iris alongside Robert De Niro as the titular cab driver Travis Bickle.
Foster revealed on a recent episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that both Scorsese, 81, and De Niro, 80, were afraid of her during filming.
“I understand [that they were scared of me],” she joked on Tuesday.
“I was 12. And they had to say things like, you know, ‘Can you pull his fly down?’ And it was a little awkward.”
The “Silence of the Lambs” star added that at the time of shooting, she had already done a medley of movie projects — more than both men.
“So I was like, ‘Whatever. Just, move over,’” she said. “Yeah, they were a little scared, Scorsese especially, who kept giggling every time he talked to me. He’d start giggling and De Niro had to take over.”
Foster appeared on the ABC talk show to discuss the upcoming fourth season of HBO’s “True Detective.” During her promotional tour, she also raised eyebrows with comments she made about Gen Z to The Guardian.
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace,” she told the outlet earlier this month.
“They’re like: ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or in emails, I’ll tell them: ‘This is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling?’ And they’re like: ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’” she went on.
Foster told Kimmel that she got hate from her sons Kit and Charles — who are both in their 20s — about her remarks.
“Yeah, I got some grief from my sons for that one,” Foster joked.
“You know, I’m older and you tend to do that, ‘In my day, we had to walk to school with crampons on.’ But the new generation, they’re lucky because they learned that they could say no, and we didn’t know that,” the “Panic Room” star continued.
Foster is set to play detective Liz Danvers in “True Detective: Night Country” alongside co-star Kali Reis.
Reis, 37, told the Post that Foster plays “such an a–hole” in the series — “but in all the right ways.”
“It’s such a button-pusher to [my character] Navarro,” she said. “It was really interesting to see how [Foster] portrayed [her character].”
Foster couldn’t agree more.
“Liz Danvers is awful. She is ‘Alaska Karen.’ No two ways about it,” she told reporters at the L.A. premiere of the show on Tuesday. “She’s an awful, awful character. But you see why.”
“You see where that came from and you see what she’s struggling against and the turmoil that’s in her and the protectiveness and the love that she has for her partner in the film [played by Reis], her other trooper character.”
Finn Bennett, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Eccleston and Isabella Star LaBlanc also star on the show.
“True Detective: Night Country” premieres on HBO and Max on Jan. 14.