“I had my moment,” said actress Jodie Foster. And it’s not necessarily my time anymore. This is my moment for others. And I have something to contribute, because I have delight and wisdom. But I don’t have to play the same role I played when I was 20. “
That’s the wisdom Foster discovered when he reached his 60s, a kind of professional epiphany he attributes to Mother Nature. “I think it may just be a chemical thing that happens to you when you’re older, and that’s just relaxing,” he said.
This says a lot since he started his career at the age of three.
With nearly 100 credits to her credit and two Oscars, Foster said she’s had a frustrating love affair with acting. “Sometimes I go through years where I just don’t need to perform for a while or I can’t find anything. “I’m reading a really clever script about something really clever that I deserve to be interested in, and I just don’t. I don’t care. “
For most of the past decade, Foster has focused on his marriage to Alexandra Hedison and raising his two teenage sons. But then two roles came along that put her back at the helm of Got Herera, and she says she’s prouder of them than anything she’s ever done.
She has already earned Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations for her role in the Netflix original “Nyad,” where she plays Bonnie Stoll, friend and coach of swimmer Diana Nyad (played by Annette Bening).
“I think for Annette it was a lot harder,” Foster said. “I spent a lot of time on the side of the boat tucking my abdomen in. That’s pretty much what I did, with my running bra. “
Then, after five years of waiting, there’s the highly anticipated fourth season of HBO’s “True Detective,” which premieres next Sunday. The series, subtitled “Night Country,” is just as creepy and supernatural as the first “True Detective. “however, this time it’s set in the frigid nights of Alaska’s polar winter.
Foster plays Detective Liz Danvers, who also faces certain darkness. So was he as bloodless as he seemed when he was shooting?”It was probably less bloodless than it looked,” he said. “There are times when it’s hard to talk!”
“I didn’t think that I would come back at this level, or I didn’t think that I would come back to acting, as often as I have now,” she said.
Many thought acting was just Foster’s destiny – after all, Hollywood has always been home. She lived with her mom and three siblings in Los Angeles, just a mile from what was then a very gritty Walk of Fame. “Yes, we weren’t allowed to go there,” she said, recalling her mother’s warnings. “She said that if she ever found us on Hollywood Boulevard, that we shouldn’t come home!”
Her mother, Brandy Foster, led her to become an actress and, as her first manager, kept her in that business, Jodie says, in an affable but compassionate way. In 1977, Foster told CBS’s “Who’s Who”: “He asked me about a thousand times, ‘Do you need to be an actress?And he may have said no. But I don’t need it. It’s fun. “
So while “forced to” may not be the right word, she didn’t decide to play, but at some point she decided to keep doing it. “Yes,” Foster said. He knew that there was a kind of unspoken word, that we accept those parameters or that we can also just stop. You can also just say no. It was an option, but it’s like, you know, ‘Here,’ you can eat this dog food or you can starve. You know, there was a little bit of that. “
Although she was the youngest of the children, she still had a secure adulthood: an old soul in a young environment. “I’m such an awkward teenager in ‘Freaky Friday,’ with masses of pimples and chubby, greasy hair and everything!”
He proved that he can convincingly portray characters beyond his years, including, in “Freaky Friday,” his own mother.
She was already a seasoned actress when she was 12 when she was cast as an underage prostitute in “Taxi Driver. “”I didn’t understand what character building was until I did ‘Taxi Driver,'” he said.
If there was an ambivalence about her career, she said it was rarely about the work; it was about the celebrity that came with it. She often described herself as an introvert in an extrovert’s job. “Definitely true. Yeah. I’m 100% introvert. I’ve never been okay with being a public figure. It’s not something that’s ever felt okay to me, or felt healthy.”
She at Yale University when an obsessed fan, John Hinckley Jr. , said he had tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan to get Foster’s attention. She went down in history through no fault of her own.
Foster then endured years of hypotheticals about her life, her children, and her sexuality, all of which she hid from the tabloids, much to their dismay.
She said, “I tried to be as authentic as I possibly could. And I had to protect my own psyche from the publicness. I just had to figure out how to dig a trench around me and to survive intact. And some of that meant being more isolated.”
Is that trench there? Oh yes, definitely. Yes, definitely. I mean, I’m running on it! I’m running on it. “
And the roles she plays, she says, seem to be characters that also have something to paint with, such as FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs. “
There has been an intensity and vulnerability that has marked many of his roles. When she played a rape survivor in ‘The Accused,’ she made us all feel uncomfortable, and rightly so. ” I haven’t looked at ‘The Accused’ because, yes, I don’t know, 25 years,” he said. “Actually, I don’t think I wanted to go back to that.
“I can only do one thing at once. I’m not a multitasker. So, I am a focuser. And if you’re a focuser, you do get obsessed with things. I think every movie I make I get obsessed with.”
So whether she’s pretending to be in the Florida Straits or completely frozen in the Arctic Circle, at 61, Jodie Foster now says she’s reached a point of popularity in her life. Yes, she’s a little obsessed. Yes, she is an introvert. And yes, she said, “I’m crazy. “But for the first time in his long professional life, he still feels a little freer.
“I think I controlled toArray and intact, and it wasn’t an easy task,” he said. “So look at me! I would!”
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