Jodie Foster simply wished to foster a standard childhood for her boys.

That is why, when the two-time Oscar winner sons Charles “Charlie” Bernard Foster, 25, and Christopher “Package” Bernard Foster, 22, have been rising up, she stored quiet about her job. As she put it, “I suppose I simply did not need them to know me that manner.”

“I wished them to know me as their mother and the one that went away to work and stuff,” Jodie defined throughout her Jan. 19 look on The View. “I simply did not need them to be confused about what I did for a residing.”

In reality, the Silence of the Lambs alum’s oldest spent his toddler years considering she labored in development.

“I introduced him to set sooner or later and I purchased him a bit of plastic device belt and stuff,” recalled Jodie, who shares her youngsters with former associate Cydney Bernard. “And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, and that is this set and this set and this set.’ And for a extremely very long time, he thought I used to be a development employee.”