Jodie Foster.Photo:The Graham Norton Show/Youtube
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Jodie Fosterhad a very close encounter with a lion while on a movie set!
During arecent appearance onThe Graham Norton Show,the actress, 61, revealed to the titular host and his other celebrity guests, which includedOlivia Colman, that she experienced the terrifying moment while on the of the 1972 filmNapoleon and Samantha.
Foster recalled three lions being on set: the main lion, a stunt lion and a stand-in lion, the latter of which was the one she had the incident with.
“We finished a take and I was going up the hill and all I remember is I remember seeing his mane come around and then he picked me up sideways, shook me in his mouth and turned me around," Foster said.
TheTrue Detective: Night Countrystar continued: “Every single person on the crew was running in the opposite direction and I’m like sideways watching everybody — and they took their equipment, too.”
TheSilence of the Lambsstar retold the event with amusement in her voice, but other guests on stage — Colman, comedianWanda Sykes, and Scottish host Lorraine Kelly — looked on in shock.
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“I’m watching everybody leave going, ‘What’s happening,’ ” Foster said, adding that she remembers thinking it was an earthquake because she was shaking.
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“The trainer said, ‘Drop it’ and because the lion was so well-trained, he opened his mouth and dropped me down and I went running,” she said.
But the lion “came after” Foster, she said, noting he “put one paw on me and then just waited like ‘I got her,’ ” she said with a laugh.
Sykes then jokingly said she would’ve fought the lion to protect Foster.
source: people.com
