'My role was making movies that mattered,' says Jodie Foster, as 'Taxi Driver' turns 50
- Posted on January 13, 2026
- By NPR
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'My role was making movies that mattered,' says Jodie Foster, as 'Taxi Driver' turns 50

Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in the 1976 film. "What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the '70s," she says. Her latest film is Vie Privée (A Private Life).