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.”
Yup, they do. And how hypocritical.
They also think most Americans are too stupid to notice. Why wouldn’t they think otherwise after our moronic electorate put Obama in office twice?
They’re panicking now because of Trump. Even if he doesn’t win, at least he’s made that happen...
Because they have money and influence, especially over a large segment of the brain-dead electorate...
That’s because it did, FRiend.
Wasn't it from a book by Sagan?
Sagan was so over rated on so many different levels.
Can’t argue with that.
Carl Sagan’s daughter said he smoked marijuana every day of his life.
Carl Sagan was able to make science (somewhat) popular to the masses, but it seems he was also somewhat full of himself.
When he learned that Apple had internally named a PowerMac project "Sagan," he demanded they change the name, so they did - To "Butt Head Astronomer." At that point he sued them, and lost. Twice.
Mark
The hatred of religion certain reflected in her version of “Contact”.
Yes, Contact was a book by Carl Sagan. And Sagan’s book, in many ways, was better - not just one white woman but five people representing the world, not a conspiracy theory by a rich guy but world wide effort reaching for the stars.
The book had a spiritual ending closer to Buddhism than Christianity, but the movie was definitely anti-Christian.
Probably having to do with his nuclear Winter crap.
I’ve always liked Jodie Foster. She was brilliant in “The Accused,” her directorial debut “Little Man Tate” was very well done, and she was a delight quite recently in, “Inside Man.”
I don’t care all that much about her personal life. But she is a very talented actress and interesting director.
I like her. First watched her in ‘Courtship of Eddie’s Father”. Don’t like that she’s a sexual pervert, but still watch her. As long as she doesn’t play one in a movie.
Great point!
:)
Whoa! Wonder where his mind went, while he was stoned.
I remember reading it, but have totally forgot the ending.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair had a son...
From wikipedia: She played an eighteen year old bi-sexual in “Carny” in 1980.
Billions and billions.
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