Jodie Foster Shares Scorsese and De Niro's Unprofessional Attitude on Set of 'Taxi Driver'

Jodie Foster stopped by Conan on Wednesday and shared what it was like to make the seminal movie Taxi Driver. At the time of filming, Foster was only 12 and played a young prostitute. She described the strange situations she found herself in with the older filmmakers — “especially when I had to unzip his fly and things like that.” She went on to say that director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro were uncomfortable filming suggestive scenes with the young actress. She said, “They just giggled. Mostly Scorsese giggled. He would try to give me direction, and then he would just burst into laughter.”

However, Foster was unfazed, saying, “I’d made a lot of movies at that point. I’d made probably more movies than probably De Niro and Scorsese had made.” She went on, “This is my job I’ve been doing my whole life. I really don’t know why they were getting all nutty about it. For me, what I remember of Taxi Driver was a great summer in New York where I kept going to the theater and going in hansom cabs.”

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