Recently, 63-year-old American actress Jodie Foster recalled her experience filming the 1976 movie "Taxi Driver" in a podcast. Judy received her first Oscar nomination for this film.
It is understood that Judy was only 12 years old when she filmed the film. She revealed that some of the "welfare scenes" in the film were completed by her sister Connie as her stand-in. She also believes that looking back with modern eyes, those scenes weren't actually that bold.
"Those scenes weren't really that suggestive," she said, "at a time when the Board of Education was starting to have issues with children taking on more adult roles. They were concerned that playing these roles might confuse us about who we are."
"So, when I was about to do Taxi Driver, the Board of Education came out and said, 'Well, we're not going to sign this work permit,'" she recalled. They had to hire a lawyer to "prove that I was competent."
She explains: "Part of the deal we made with them was that if there were any sexually suggestive scenes, we would find someone else to do it. My mom said, 'Well, her sister can come to New York for the summer. She's 18 and she's about the same size.' So that was it."
But Judy said that from a modern perspective, she did not think the content in the script was as outrageous as people feared at the time. "Those scenes weren't very suggestive," she said. "I remember her taking her shirt off her shoulders or something like that, right? That was nothing."
