“I didn’t want them to know me that way.”

“I brought my oldest son, he was probably about 3 …

I brought him to set one day,” she explained.

Jodie Foster posing at a “True Detective” screening

And for a really long time, he thought I was a construction worker."

“My older one just saw ‘Taxi Driver’ for the first time.”

The actor went on to explain that Kit, her youngest son, did find her movie scary.

Jodie Foster hugging her sons, Christopher and Charlie

Still, there are some of her projects that she has no interest in sharing with her sons.