Jodie Foster revealed that her controversial child prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver had a shocking effect on her costar Robert De Niro.
The Oscar-winning actress was just 12 years old when she portrayed a hooker in the 1976 cult classic.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, the actress reminisced about her time on the film.
She said: "I was 12 years old and had made more movies than anyone else on the film at that point.
"They were very uncomfortable about my character. Nobody knew how to direct me.
"Scorsese would say something like 'unzip his fly' and just start laughing and not know what to do so he would hand it over to Robert De Niro and then Robert would tell me what to do.
"And he was even more 'Robert De Niro' then, even quieter and more strange."
Their main controversial scene together saw De Niro’s character Travis hire Iris, but rather than having s-x he tries to persuade her to leave prostitution.
The film earned both actors Oscar nominations in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.
Foster went on to star in The Silence of The Lambs with Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
Speaking on the show, Foster revealed that Hopkins’s cannibal was terrifying.
“The first day we had a read-through and by the end of it I never wanted to talk to him again - I was petrified.
"We got to the end of the movie and really had never had a conversation.
"I actually avoided him but on the last day he came up to me and I said, with tears in my eyes, how scared I was of him and he said, 'But, I was scared of you!"'
Foster was joined on The Graham Norton Show by Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, who currently star in The Nice Guys.
At a hilarious press conference for the new movie, Russell Crowe called his co-star: “a funny bast***.”
