Jodie Foster says she turned down the role of Princess Leia.
Foster explained that she passed on the role due to scheduling conflicts.
"I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn't want to pull out of the Disney movie, because I had already -- I was already under contract," she said. "So I didn't do it."
Foster starred in Disney's 1977 film Candleshoe, while the role of Leia went to Carrie Fisher.
"They did an amazing job," Foster said. "I don't know how good I would have been.""I might have had a different hair, you know," she jokingly added. "I might have gone with a pineapple."
Foster now stars in True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the HBO drama series, which premiered Sunday.
"She just had such an incredible vision for the show that I just couldn't do anything but jump on board," Foster said.
"I did change the character a bit. The character, initially, was much younger and she was -- you know, was fresh from grief, and was kind of a mess and very emotional," she added. "And I thought, 'No.' So, she really is awful. Yeah, my Liz Danvers is awful. We call her 'Alaska Karen.'"
Foster recently said in an interview with UPI that her True Detective character is battling her inner demons.
True Detective: Night Country airs Sundays on HBO.
