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 Jodie Foster
Interview By: Freddie LaFemina
*Click Here For Another Interview with Jodie Foster It’s always a special occasion when Jodie Foster stars in a film. As Foster is quick to note, “I don’t make three movies a year. I make one movie sometimes every three years.” And while this doesn’t guarantee that all the films she stars in garner universal critical acclaim, she hasn’t done too badly for herself with this metric. She is one of only a dozen actresses in the nearly eighty-year history of the Academy Awards to have won twice for Best Actress in a Leading Role, once for The Accused in 1988 and again only a few years later for her memorable role as FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, which won a total of five Oscars (including Best Picture) in 1991. Since Foster doesn’t make films as often as many top actors and actresses today (who are often doing multiple projects every year), each film she chooses to make, according to her, “has to stand for something…There has to be something in it that is moving to me and…by extension, is terrifically moving to other people.” It seems Ms. Foster knows how to pick ’em, yet she is still very humble about her work. “I’m really picky about what I choose, and it doesn’t mean that the scripts I make are all perfect,” she says. Foster’s humility and sense of purpose comes through when she talks about the previous film she worked on, the airplane thriller Flightplan, which was among the top 20 grossing films of 2005. “Flightplan is not a perfect movie, and it’s not an arthouse film. It is a genre movie and I make no apologies for that, but I really feel like that character was beautifully drawn, truthfully drawn, and I’m really proud of it as an actor.” Speaking about the film’s box office success, Foster says, “I’m really happy that everybody seemed to go.” Foster is one of very few leading actresses whose involvement in a project can ensure with a high degree of certainty both widespread attendance and positive critical reception. She has no problem “calling [herself] a feminist with a capital F.” For Foster, “feminism and humanism are pretty much the same thing…I hope that I inject humanism in the movies that I make.” While she acknowledges that she brings something specific and unique to each role because she is a woman, she is also quite proud of the fact that her roles in many films could have easily been played by men. Her role in Flightplan was actually written for a man, and her role in Inside Man as a confident yet deferential power broker – a kind of “fixer figure” according to Foster – “could have easily been a man, and I really don’t know why they wrote this character as a woman. |
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