--- description: "We gotcha" the barista said before writing "Jody" on the actress's cup title: Starbucks Barista Confidently Mistook Helen Hunt for Jodie Foster image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c90e8aba41eb64/698894802dce01338c9e92fa/helen-hunt.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Starbucks Barista Confidently Mistook Helen Hunt for Jodie Foster by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2016 12:05 AM CUT  Actress Helen Hunt attends the 2016 Fox Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park on May 16, 2016 in New York City. Actress Helen Hunt attends the 2016 Fox Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park on May 16, 2016 in New York City.Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2016 12:05 AM CUT When Helen Hunt placed her drink order at a Starbucks on Monday, she was quickly identified by her barista without giving her name. Or rather, misidentified. “Ordered my drink @Starbucks,” she wrote on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/HelenHunt/status/734837890887213057?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined"). “Asked the barista if she wanted my name. She winked and said. “We gotcha.” In the accompanying photo, Hunt shows the Barista had written the name “Jody” on the cup. Hunt hash-tagged the tweet “#JodieFoster.” Starbucks responded to the mix-up with a cheeky tweet of its own: > [](https://twitter.com/Starbucks/status/734866815810031616) **Read more:** [These Celebrities Look Uncannily Alike](http://time.com/3637276/these-celebrities-look-uncannily-alike/ "undefined") As [_Entertainment Weekly_ ](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/23/helen-hunt-jodie-foster-starbucks "undefined")reports, this is not the first time the two actresses have gotten mixed up. Hunt told [David Letterman in 1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428I8wjqadE "undefined") that she was frequently mistaken for Jodie Foster when she was starting out as an actress. One time, she was even offered a free Thanksgiving turkey by a cashier who thought she was Foster—but he ended up charging her for the bird when he learned her true identity. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4345863/helen-hunt-jodie-foster-starbucks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4345863/helen-hunt-jodie-foster-starbucks/"},"headline":"Starbucks Barista Confidently Mistook Helen Hunt for Jodie Foster","datePublished":"2016-05-24T00:05:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:47:07.357Z","description":"\"We gotcha\" the barista said before writing \"Jody\" on the actress's cup","url":"https://time.com/4345863/helen-hunt-jodie-foster-starbucks/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c90e8aba41eb64/698894802dce01338c9e92fa/helen-hunt.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c90e8aba41eb64/698894802dce01338c9e92fa/helen-hunt.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Fox Upfront","caption":"2016 Fox Upfront","creditText":"Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4345863/helen-hunt-jodie-foster-starbucks/","name":"Starbucks Barista Confidently Mistook Helen Hunt for Jodie Foster"}}]}] ```