Jodie Foster and the stalker who shot the president ‘to win her heart’

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Jodie Foster in 1976’s ‘Taxi Driver’ (Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock)

 

Oh God, oh seriously, this is really starting to bother me,” said an 18-year-old Jodie Foster in 1981, on the phone with the man who had been stalking her.

 

“Do you mind if I hang up?” A few months later, in a twisted attempt to win her love, that man would shoot the president of the United States.

 

Ask someone what comes to mind when they think of Jodie Foster, and they might mention her role as a prickly rape survivor in The Accused, for which she won her first Oscar, or as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, for which she won her second.

 

Maybe they’ll say the home-invasion thriller Panic Room, or Bugsy Malone, or Freaky Friday.

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/jodie-foster-john-hinckley-jr-shooting-b1824353.html