If you’ve been keeping up on your movie news, you know that Spike Lee is planning to make a sequel to his 2006 hit “Inside Man.” You’ve read articles like this one, this one and this one, or heard that Lee spoke again about the movie just recently, telling reporters: “If the script is not better than the first one, myself, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen– we said we’re not doing it.”

So, they’re all in as long as the script is good, right? Well, apparently everybody in the world knows the news – but somebody forgot to tell Jodie Foster.

“Why, you have some dope I don’t know about?” Foster recoiled when we spoke to her recently, genuinely seeming as though she’d never heard a peep about an “Inside Man” sequel in her life. “I don’t think that’s what he said.”

“You know something more than I know?” she teased. “Are you writing it or something?”

Since Foster is, well, one of the greatest actors of all time, there’s obviously a chance that she was just faking her obliviousness extremely well. But otherwise, her surprise might lend strength to rumors that Terry George (“Hotel Rwanda”) is writing his script with the intention of cutting out a major character or two. Foster would seem to be the least essential of the three stars, if only because she had the least screentime in Lee’s original heist thriller.

“I loved that movie; it was a really fun experience for me,” she remembered. “It was the quickest film I think I ever shot. I think I worked for four days or something, and to work with Denzel Washington is a dream that everybody has.”

Although she insisted that the film isn’t a reality as far as she knows, Foster said that if Spike wants to give her a call, she’d be happy to once again dive back into the role of no-nonsense “fixer” Madeleine White.

“Sure!” she insisted, sending out a message to Spike. “From your mouth to his ears, of course I would love to.”

Come to think of it, wouldn’t it be pretty silly to have all three characters bump into each other again in a sequel? How would you keep Foster in the next film and make it work?