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How Jodie Foster stays one of the most ‘real’ stars in Hollywood [Wash Post pushes Lesbianism]
washingtonpost ^ | May 7, 2016 | Ann Hornaday

Posted on 05/08/2016 1:46:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Jodie Foster is on point. Mere minutes into conversation and she’s talking politics, specifically as they pertain to “Money Monster,” a timely thriller she’s directed. It’s impossible to watch “Money Monster,” which stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts and opens May 13, and not be reminded of the indeterminate rage of the Trump phenomenon.

She’s eager to talk about “Money Monster,” in which Clooney plays Lee Gates, the swaggering, superficial star of a cable financial show who’s taken hostage by a young man, played by Jack O’Connell, whose savings have been wiped out by one of Gates’s stock tips. Foster says. “It’s really about men . . . who have a poor opinion of themselves and are looking for value, looking for meaning… Lee, the performer who’s caught up in his own persona, doesn’t know who he is and is completely lost and self-absorbed.”

Now 53, she hasn’t visibly aged in half a decade, her hair showing just a few strands of gray and her face betraying no signs of Hollywood-mandated “work.”. Famously private, Foster is nonetheless direct and surprisingly forthcoming about even the most intimate subjects.

The adjectives that leap to mind to describe Jodie Foster — genuine, down-to-earth, authentic, real — would be unremarkable were it not for how fiercely she’s fought to establish and protect those qualities… “I kept choosing a meaningful life.”

“ I’m sure it takes a toll to be Obama and to say, ‘God bless America’ 450,000 times, to the point where by the end of it you’re like: ‘Do I really bless America? I don’t know! Am I fake? Am I real?’ ”

Foster grappled with that same ambivalence three years ago, when she accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. The speech was equal parts candid and cryptic, and breathtakingly emotional. Most movingly, Foster paid homage to the ex-partner with whom she had brought up two young sons. Although Foster had long since come out as a lesbian within her immediate circle, it was the first time she acknowledged that part of her identity so publicly.

Not long after, Foster married the photographer Alexandra Hedison, who will walk the red carpet alongside her at Cannes. As for her sons, now teenagers, they’ll be at home. Unlike many of her colleagues, Foster rarely brought her children to her movie sets, or glittery parties and premieres. “I didn’t want them to know me that way when they were young,” she explains. “I didn’t want them to have an idea of me as anything but their mom.”

Foster admits that “Money Monster” and her work for Netflix represent a new level of engagement with the outside world and its issues. “I’m more interested in relevant topics,” she says. But Foster’s form of activism will never extend past the screen. “I’m grateful for the spokesmen who are out there, because they’ve helped change the world and change my life,” she says, “and it’s really important and necessary for history and for change.”


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To: MarvinStinson

Irrelevant.


21 posted on 05/08/2016 2:26:13 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Anyone who wants to negate Jodie Foster with the #SJW crowd need only riposte/review/interject her unwavering support for Mel Gibson. This is the only acceptable Alinsky tactic and should be used without hesitation...


22 posted on 05/08/2016 2:28:45 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: choctaw man

The Washington Post selling lesbianism and anti-Trump propaganda.


23 posted on 05/08/2016 2:29:24 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

BLT

Her on set slang name - of course not to her face.

(Bossy Little Thing)


24 posted on 05/08/2016 2:30:54 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: MarvinStinson; All

Another carpet muncher whose 15 minutes of fame is definitely over.


25 posted on 05/08/2016 2:46:03 PM PDT by mkjessup (Trump Train!! Express to the White House, Track # 1, get your ticket punched and GET ON BOARD!)
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To: MarvinStinson

If Clooney is in it, it will be a sure fire bomb


26 posted on 05/08/2016 2:46:18 PM PDT by wild74
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To: Eddie01

“I thought Contact totally sucked.”

I didn’t like it either. Those kind of movies are good for the under-30, perhaps even the under-40 crowd, but for anyone who knows anything and is somewhat (or more) cynical, fuggedaboutit.


27 posted on 05/08/2016 2:56:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Hildy

“Money Monster”

I hope it flops. Based on the promos, it appears to be everything detestable about Hollywood. (Actually, given the massive advertising for it, I’m guessing that it probably is in fact a real stinker.)


28 posted on 05/08/2016 2:58:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Sorry.

WaPo.

Not worth the effort to read.


29 posted on 05/08/2016 3:02:08 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: MarvinStinson

“ I’m sure it takes a toll to be Obama and to say, ‘God bless America’ 450,000 times, to the point where by the end of it you’re like: ‘Do I really bless America? I don’t know! Am I fake? Am I real?’ ”


Obama’s totally fake, down to his phony American black accent.


30 posted on 05/08/2016 3:10:51 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ColdOne

Yes...I always wondered why everyone thought she was great, but thought it was me.


31 posted on 05/08/2016 3:12:00 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Kriggerel
Well, have you started carrying around your copy of Catcher in the Rye yet?

The best part of that book is its catchy title.

It's the book everyone knew was supposed to be great - after all, the critics all said so.

But after reading it few (if any) could understand why it was supposed to be great.

Most were afraid to tell their intellectual friends "I don't get it." so just looked thoughtful and agreed it is a great book.


32 posted on 05/08/2016 3:13:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: dhs12345

“Why should I care that she prefers women? Why do gays parade around like it is important?”

Because they are ticked off that their sexual kink doesn’t manifest itself through actual physical biological differences from normal people.

They hate that you cant just “tell”.


33 posted on 05/08/2016 3:14:01 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

TMI.


34 posted on 05/08/2016 3:40:19 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Contact was awful. Just awful.


35 posted on 05/08/2016 3:51:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Eddie01

Contact did totally suck


36 posted on 05/08/2016 3:53:18 PM PDT by South Dakota (crazy horse: I shall return again...in stone)
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To: MarvinStinson
"...Now 53, she hasn’t visibly aged in half a decade..."

Age 53, looks 48. Not reeeealy saying a whole lot. Although I have always thought she was cute. Knowing her preferences does ruin the fantasy a little bit.


37 posted on 05/08/2016 4:03:19 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: savagesusie

Sadly, I saw Elysium.. It was part of a triple feature at the movies. She can’t act or even get an accent straight. I don’t know how she became so famous as an actress.


38 posted on 05/08/2016 4:03:45 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian
I don’t know how she became so famous as an actress.

She was a child actor who was very comfortable in front of the camera, as was Drew Barrymore.

She made a lot of friends in the business, and probably demonstrated a fair amount of professionalism, making her a low-worry hire for parts that suited her.

Other than that, I agree with you.

39 posted on 05/08/2016 4:07:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: PLMerite

Agreed. I think she’s a good actress and very pretty, but it’s difficult to accept her in many roles.


40 posted on 05/08/2016 4:08:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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