Jodie Foster admitted she was “not naturally an actor” and that the traumatic experience of a stalker coming to see her on stage, then shooting President Ronald Reagan to get her attention, is the reason she stopped performing live at 18. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. made the assassination attempt while Foster was still a college student. “It was a traumatic moment, and I’ve never admitted that maybe that has something to do with how I never wanted to do a play again,” she told Jodie Comer in a conversation for Interview Magazine.
“I’m finally able to admit that the one bit of theater 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,” Foster explained.
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