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.”
I get the feeling when lesbians are looking at me, they’re thinking: “That’s why I’m not heterosexual”.
How did you manage to answer this, when, for some unknown reason, this response about Carl Sagan ended up here?
Billions and billions of reasons
Ignore prior response. I forgot to what I was responding, & thought I read that in a post about Carl Sagan.
Thanks, but no thanks Jodie.
There are billions and billions of posts here.
I do the same thing.
The best part of Gravity was when Clooney died.
In the theater I said, loudly "FINALLY!", and people laughed.
He was truly ‘in a tight spot’!
Jodie Foster's 15 minutes of fame?!!
Now...there's an obviously knowledgeable quote.
In the huge hurricane of continuous Hollywood hoopla, Jodie Foster is indeed, nothing but a minor carpet munching fart in the wind.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.