Reasons Why Alicia Silverstone Is Anything but Clueless

As a Kid, She Looked Up to Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster

At the start of her career, a little after The Crush and right before Clueless, Silverstone was still trying to figure things out. She wasn’t sure what genre to dedicate herself to and said she was open to trying many new things. But one thing she knew for sure was that she wanted to be respected in the field.

“I want to follow Jodie Foster, She’s so smart, and she’s somebody I really look up to,” she told Rolling Stone back in 1993. She added that she wants to be respected like Meryl Streep, because “everybody looks at her like, ‘Wow, she’s just so great.’”