Jodie Foster press conference April 2, 1981

Alí Godoy

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00:00Jodie, I'm curious about the difference between the Jodie Foster that your film fans and maybe

00:09John Hinckley thought he knew, and the real Jodie Foster.

00:14Can you talk to that?

00:16Well, I never noticed there was a difference until today, and I imagine it's something

00:22that I'll have to be aware of in the future.

00:25That's, you know, the only thing I know.

00:30I mean, that's my job.

00:33I'm an actress, and that's what I love doing, and that's what I'm good at, and nothing will

00:37ever change that.

00:39But I do know that I think of myself much differently than what other people think of me.

00:47I feel very young.

00:49I feel very young, and I guess everyone must feel very young.

00:55Unless they're...

00:56How do other people think of you?

00:58Do you know?

00:59I don't know.

01:00I have no idea.

01:01You'll have to tell me someday.

01:02I'm just totally surprised maybe if you're a little younger.

01:06No, in fact, it makes me feel a lot older, because it's not that I've had a great deal

01:15of responsibility in this whole thing, because a lot of people have helped out, but I've felt

01:21that there were certain decisions that I could cooperate on that I've never really had to

01:25do before.

01:26What advice did Dean Theodore give you when you brought the first letters to him?

01:34I really can't comment on that, because I don't know, you know, basically what the

01:39whole deal is, but whatever advice it was, it was good, because he's my dean, and he's

01:45the best.

01:46Have you talked to the FBI or the Secret Service today?

01:49You were quoted as talking to them yesterday.

01:52Have you continued discussions with them?

01:54I spoke to them yesterday.

01:55I have not spoken to them today.

01:56What topics did you do?

01:57I don't know.

01:58Like, we talked on the phone with, like, different ones all the time.

01:59Do you know if there were agents from Washington or from New Haven?

02:00Oh, there were two from New Haven.

02:01And they come up and talk to you in person, the two from New Haven?

02:02Or are these all phone interviews?

02:03Well, they talked to me in person and on the phone, but I mean, I don't think I'm supposed

02:04to say anything more about them, because that seems like the type that you're not supposed

02:05to talk about.

02:06I don't think I'm supposed to say anything more about them, because that seems like the type that you're

02:07not supposed to talk about.

02:08What sort of information were you told not to talk about?

02:09Anything that might jeopardize John Hinckley's case.

02:10Anything that might jeopardize John Hinckley's case.

02:11Anything that might jeopardize John Hinckley's case.

02:12Anything that might jeopardize John Hinckley's case.

02:18and on the phone.

02:20But, I mean, I don't think I'm supposed to say anything more about them

02:22because that seems like the type that you're not supposed to talk about.

02:26Yes.

02:27What sort of information were you told not to talk about?

02:32Anything that might jeopardize John Hinckley's case

02:37and anything that, you know, that people were unclear about

02:45that had not basically already leaked out

02:48because I imagine it's to the benefit of everyone

02:51to keep everything as quiet as possible

02:54and to not expound upon friends because the damage has been done.

03:00Leaving aside Hinckley's letters, what's generally in your fan mail?

03:03What kind of mail do you get?

03:08I don't know because I don't read them very often.

03:11I get a lot of incredibly nice fan mail

03:16and I feel terrible because I could never write anyone back

03:19and I get a lot of fan mail from Japan or whatever

03:24and I feel badly that I can't do that

03:27but I'm sure that people understand.

03:31Does it contain any kind of mail routinely

03:35that would be considered frightening or distasteful?

03:39Well, I, no.

03:44That is the reason you don't read it?

03:48I've even forgotten the reasons why I don't read them.

03:50Mostly because I don't have the time.

03:54I imagine it's a mixture of everything.

03:56There is a mixture of everything.

03:57But it's overwhelming with very much.

04:01Does it find the fact that you've never met him

04:03as this whole experience made you feel like you've come to know John Hinckley?

04:07Not at all.

04:09I know nothing about him.

04:13We never establish.

04:14What time did the FBI first contact you?

04:18Do you know?

04:18The time of day?

04:20Oh.

04:21No.

04:23This would have been sometime Monday afternoon.

04:25Well, in any case, I didn't get home till late

04:27so it doesn't matter because

04:28even if they had contacted them all day.

04:31You were out at classes?

04:33I was in classes.

04:34I was in the library.

04:35I was talking to friends.

04:37Where were you when you heard that

04:39the man who's accused of shooting

04:42the president had the same name as the guy who sent you letters?

04:47I walked into my room.

04:48My roommate told me.

04:49Before dinner?

04:50My roommate had not read the letters

04:56but she had heard me mention.

04:59Was this after classes?

05:01Before dinner?

05:01After dinner?

05:03Just what time of...

05:04Why is this important?

05:05I don't understand.

05:07After way, after dinner

05:08because it was late.

05:10How much time passed then

05:11before the FBI notified you?

05:14We're just trying to get a sequence here.

05:15It helps us.

05:16I wouldn't know

05:18because it's very difficult

05:20to get a hold of me.

05:22Was it the same day?

05:24I contacted my dean much

05:25before they contacted me.

05:27Was it the same day?

05:31Did your dean pull you out of lunch again yesterday?

05:34Why, were you there?

05:35No, I heard about it.

05:36You heard about that?

05:37He didn't.

05:38He said, oh, come with me for a second.

05:40So I think everyone probably thought

05:43he was just inviting me for two years.

05:47And it was the FBI again?

05:50No.

05:50Then we went to a big shot office on campus.

05:55I don't know what you call those offices.

05:58Whatever.

05:59Yeah.

05:59Office of the President?

06:00Whatever.

06:01No, no, not the President.

06:03What for?

06:04That's what we're going to do about all this.

06:07Let me get it straight.

06:08You realized on Monday

06:10that the Hinkley

06:11who took a shot at the President

06:13was the Hinkley of your letters.

06:14And it was Tuesday

06:15when the FBI contacted you.

06:17Am I correct?

06:18No.

06:19Monday.

06:19It was still Monday.

06:20Okay.

06:21I just misunderstood you.

06:22And how long after the shooting,

06:24you've already answered this,

06:24but how long after the shooting

06:26was it that you heard

06:28John Hinkley,

06:29the name,

06:30made the connection?

06:31Well, I didn't hear from the news

06:33because I didn't watch the news that night.

06:35I only heard it

06:36from my roommate.

06:37I must say,

06:39I was very out of touch that day.

06:41I had heard that Reagan,

06:43there had been an attempt at his life

06:44and I had made a conscious effort

06:45of not finding out the details.

06:47Did you just happen to ask your roommate

06:49who was responsible?

06:51I walked in the door and she said,

06:52Jody.

06:54John Hinkley.

06:54I said,

06:55John Hinkley what?

06:56She said,

06:57John Hinkley.

06:57I said,

06:58John Hinkley what?

06:59And I just told him.

07:01Why did you make a time

07:03to get more information about that?

07:06I don't know.

07:12But,

07:12it's very difficult

07:17for me to get news and things.

07:20And I heard on a radio

07:24that nobody was quite sure.

07:25It was very confused in the news.

07:27And everybody on campus

07:28was very confused

07:29and they were saying

07:30all sorts of weird things.

07:31and none of it,

07:32in fact,

07:33had anything to do with what happened.

07:35When you were notified

07:35about the kidnap threat

07:37last November,

07:38was this the first time

07:39you've ever received

07:40a threat of this nature?

07:42I'm not allowed to say.

07:44I'll tell you more questions.

07:47Aside from,

07:48you know,

07:48being shaken up

07:50and wanting to

07:51sort of avoid this

07:52and then put this whole episode

07:53behind you,

07:55do you have any feelings

07:55at all

07:56towards Hinkley

07:57Are you going to appear

08:05in any films?

08:07Soon?

08:07Summer?

08:08Whenever you have the time?

08:09Yeah.

08:10You're planning to do a film

08:11this summer?

08:11Yes.

08:12What's it going to be?

08:13I can't tell you.

08:15I really can't tell you.

08:17Those are one of the big ones

08:18that I can't tell you.

08:19I never tell anyone

08:20because you never know

08:21a week before

08:22something could happen.

08:24Jody,

08:24do you think he did it for you

08:25as he has reported

08:27to have said?

08:28I don't think anything.

08:29That's quite a supposition.

08:32There's no way

08:33that I would be

08:33in any kind of relationship

08:35in order to think anything.

08:37Okay, I think that's all right.

08:39Thanks.

08:55I didn't get home, too.

09:25Nine o'clock.

09:27Nine that night?

09:28Yeah.

09:29So you talked to the FBI.

09:31The FBI contacted you

09:32at that point,

09:33but you had most of your discussions

09:35with them on Tuesday.

09:36It was all Monday night?

09:38Well, Monday night

09:38was big discussions,

09:40and then Tuesday

09:41they came back.

09:42And you were making

09:42something bad show,

09:43or something like that?

09:45Yeah.

09:45Well, I...

09:47Had you heard about

09:49the event itself

09:50by that time?

09:51Yes, I'd heard about

09:51not in great danger.

09:52So you don't know

09:55when the letters

09:56went to the FBI

09:57because you gave them

09:58to your team.

10:00Just see the event.

10:02mic.

10:05Okay.

10:05I'll see you next time.

10:14Yeah.

10:19Yeah.

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