Starbucks barista mistakes Helen Hunt for other blonde Oscar winner Jodie Foster

Oh Helen, they were not Mad About You.
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Yohana Desta
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Starbucks barista mistakes Helen Hunt for other blonde Oscar winner Jodie Foster
Helen Hunt and Jodie Foster. Credit: Mashable composite. Noam Galai/WireImage/Getty Images, Fotonoticias/WireImage/Getty Images

Imagine you're Oscar winner Helen Hunt. 

You go into Starbucks and order a drink. But before you can give the barista your name, she stops and shoots you a wink. "We gotcha," she says. And on your cup she writes ... "Jody."

Because she thinks you're Jodie Foster, another blonde Oscar-winning actress. 


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Well, all this actually happened to Helen Hunt, who tweeted about the hilarious mixup on Monday. That barista must be pretty embarrassed right about now. Though to be fair, Foster and Hunt do look pretty similar. Guess that barista was not Mad About Helen. 

The moral of the story is Starbucks will never get your name right, not now, not when you win an Oscar, not ever


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Yohana Desta

Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.

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