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 Jodie Foster
Interview By: Ray Dademo
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In an age where Jude Law opens six movies in one year, Jodie Foster seems like something of an oddity. Over the last ten years, Foster, a two-time Academy Award winning actress, has made herself (noticeably) scarce from the Hollywood scene. Of course, she's taken on larger "behind-the-scenes" projects: opening a production company (Egg Pictures) and directing a few personal projects (Little Man Tate and Home For the Holidays) Still, for an actress widely recognized as one of her generation's best, it's sometimes difficult to imagine any reason for Foster's prolonged absence.
She has two reasons. One is seven years old; the other, four.
"When I was younger," Foster confesses. "I thought you had to be completely consumed
with the world of the film and you had to completely divorce yourself from your
own life. As you get older, you realize how important it is to have a full life.
If I had to shoot this film on location, away from my kids, I probably would have
lost my mind."
It was the birth of Foster's children (Charles and Kip) that presented her with an interesting choice. She felt she could have been a committed mother or a committed actress -- but not both. "You have different times in your life as an actor. I like not feeling
like I have to compete like in did in my twenties."
Normally, it is a rare project that separates Foster from her children. With Flightplan," she found a shooting schedule that fit her maternal needs. "It's always very hard for me to have them [my kids] on the set. I'm always worried and I can't really focus my work, so they don't get to visit the set that much. But the good news
was that they go to school about six minutes from where we shot the film. So, I
could have a real life with them. I didn't have to lose my life to shoot the film."
In Flightplan," Foster plays Kyle Pratt, an important passanger whose daughter disappears on a commercial airliner, mid-flight. Though the tight construct of the thriller appealed to Foster, it was a deep empathy for Kyle that immediately drew her to the project. "I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to people who work with me. [In this case,] it was the character, what she goes through. I suppose it's some kind of unconscious fear I have. Not so much losing your child, but worse than that not being able to keep them safe. So much of that is a fear
of being a child who wasn't able to be kept safe. I must be drawn to that. Panic
Room has a similar issue."
The theme of parent-child relationships has saturated Foster's work in the last few years, and she is not averse to considering the therapeutic power of her films. "You exercise a certain fear you have. It's ...
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