Jodie Foster can’t multi-task and prefers to give things 'total focus' one at a time

Jodie Foster can’t multi-task.

The 63-year-old actress prefers to give one thing her entire focus and then when it is “done”, she will immediately move on to something else.

She told Red magazine: “That’s my personality.

“I like to do one thing with total focus, and then I like to be done and go skiing.

“I’m not somebody who’s a multi-tasker. Can’t go in and out of doing one thing, then do something else.

“I’m like a one-person channel.”

The A Private Life actress loves to find new ways to be challenged and loves nothing more than “learning something that I have to immerse myself in in mind and body”.

She added: “So I would like someone to say, ‘OK Jodie, you have to take a year of your life and you will speak Mandarin and play the flute.

“I’m in. I want to take on something like that.”

Jodie also likes the idea of going back to school for up to a year.

She added: “But I don’t want to be stuck making a commitment to something that I then have to be an expert in for my whole life.

“I just want to play an expert on TV.”