Sometimes I have a producer in front of me and they can be a bit aggressive and I’m always very calm. I will give an answer, I won’t lie and I’m not afraid. My head exploded and I said that’s what I wanted to do.”įoster praised those in cinema who gave her chances, but added, “Sometimes I’m surprised by micro-aggressions when you go into the position of leader… I’m very direct. Eponymous star Bill Bixby came to set one day, “and he was also the director. Even if things haven’t entirely changed, there is awareness.” Her own bug for directing came all the way back at the age of six, when she was appearing in a recurring role on The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father. She continued, “Now is the time for women to get into the business. That has really changed in the last 10 years.” It wasn’t on purpose, but they thought women were a risk. Even some of the studio chiefs were women, but they were choosing male directors. What else has changed for women over the course of her career? “When I started, I never saw women (except for) the person playing my mother or the make-up person sometimes or the script girl.” There were no female directors, and Foster “didn’t understand why it was an avenue that wasn’t open.” She later realized “it wasn’t something conscious. Still, she said, “I think in cinema ( The Accused) is a point of reference for when the conversation started about women and violence.” Penske Media Acquires Cannes Fest Fixture The American PavilionĪsked to look back on her 1988 film The Accused through the lens of the current landscape, Foster said, “I think things have changed, but even at that time to do the film we had such a hard time with people who said, ‘Well she was wearing a skirt, it’s normal that she gets raped.’ There were even critics who said, ‘Well, it’s normal,’” of the character that won Foster her first Best Actress Oscar.
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Foster recalled, “It was stressful to be there with all the people, but I had the impression that it was significant.” And indeed, though she was mourning her pup at the time, Foster recognized Taxi Driver as “a moment of transformation in cinema. Just as Foster was getting ready to leave for Cannes that year, her beloved Yorkshire terrier, Napoleon, died, leading the young girl to deal secretly with her own grief while being thrust into the spotlight.
It was “complicated,” she avowed, before offering up a story she said she rarely recounts. After receiving her honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night on Tuesday, Jodie Foster this afternoon reflected on her career in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on her early years, the role of women in the industry and what the future holds.įoster, who spoke in fluent French for the assembled audience today, recalled her first trip to Cannes for 1976’s Palme d’Or winner Taxi Driver and what that experience was like seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old.
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