Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and Marvel hero Simu Liu this Wednesday reached the same late-night milestone—and whilst seated (at different times) in the same chair.
With their respective appearances on the January 7 episode of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, Foster and Liu now have collected all four late-night TV “Infinity Stones,” by having guested on Late Night, NBC’s The Tonight Show, CBS’ The Late Show, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Does that make Seth Meyers “Vision” in this scenario…?
After all, Meyers also recently gifted pop star Sabrina Carpenter with the figurative late-night Mind Stone, when she guested on his NBC talker in December.
Obviously, it took Foster a longer time to accomplish her late-night superfecta, having gotten the ball rolling back in 1978 with a visit to Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show (where she promoted her latest Walt Disney flick, Candleshoe, but also talked about her role in a little movie called Taxi Driver).
It must be noted that Foster dialed back her press avails in the 1980s and 1990s after stalker John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate U.S. president Ronald Reagan, to “impress” the Taxi Driver star.
All told, Foster has three Kimmel drop-bys under her belt, followed by a pair of appearances each on The Late Show and The Tonight Show, and then this week’s Late Night appearance (which was on behalf of the recently released indie, A Private Life).
In the broader late night-sphere, Foster twice appeared on Saturday Night Live in November 1976, first as an audience member and then a week later as host for Season 2’s ninth episode—shortly after Bugsy Malone‘s release.
Foster discussed with Seth Meyers the difficulties of her SNL debut, below:
Liu’s own path to superfecta status began in August 2021, when he was making the rounds with Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and first visited Jimmy Kimmel Live; weeks later, that same press tour led him to The Tonight Show. To date, he has visited The Tonight Show most often (five times), followed by Kimmel (four), and then singular stops at The Late Show and now Late Night.
Liu is currently stumping for The Copenhagen Test, a Peacock thriller which he headlines alongside Melissa Barrera.
