Jodie wants to buck the trend

While most of the waitresses in Los Angeles dream of being a film star, actress Jodie Foster - who earns £10million a movie - fantasises about serving in a coffee shop.

The double Oscar-winner visits a Starbucks nearly every day and pictures herself remembering every customer's order while making 'the meanest cappuccinos in town'.

'I think about it all the time,' the Silence Of The Lambs star said.

'I fantasise about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

'Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a grey area. There's either enough foam in the cappuccino or there isn't.'

The mother-of-two says she missed her chance of serving in Starbucks or McDonald's as a teenager because she started her acting career at three.

Since then, she has never had the need to earn extra cash while 'resting' between movie roles. Foster also harbours a desire to deliver post, attracted by the uniform and fresh air.

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz said he would interview Foster himself if she was interested. 'We'd love to have her,' he added.

Foster doesn't intend to let her sons Charles, two, and Kit, five months, miss such an opportunity. Asked if she would encourage them into acting, she replied: 'I'd tell them to go to Starbucks first and don't pass go.'