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Updated Friday, February 16, 2024-14:11
Despite being an
icon of Hollywood, the LGTB+ community
and the emancipation of women, the American actress and director
Jodie Foster
has made a career without expressing her opinion too much in public.
The performer,
winner of two Oscars,
does not usually talk much about things that are not related to her work. This week she passed through Paris and agreed to briefly talk about current affairs, about issues such as the #MeToo movement or the American elections, on the France Inter radio station, but she stressed that they ask her "many political questions."
"I never wanted to be someone who talks about politics
," the 61-year-old actress told AFP in perfect French, who, putting her reservations aside for a moment, criticizes former US president Donald Trump and
calls Generation Z "infuriating
"
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"What interested me most was making films.
All my life it is the only thing I have wanted to do
," said the director of
The Master of Money
(2016), a devastating criticism of finance and the media in the United States. She now hopes to return "behind the cameras" again.
After becoming a global star at the age of 12 for her role as a prostitute in
Taxi Driver
(1976), Jodie Foster
built a wall around her private life
.
"If they had been a public figure from early childhood, if they had had to fight to have a normal life, perhaps they would also protect their privacy above all else," he said at a Golden Globes ceremony in 2013, where he publicly announced his homosexuality.
True Detective 4, his return to TV
Their reservation is also given during filming. "With Jodie, you explain where the character comes from and she understands, she doesn't need to talk about her emotions," Issa López, director of
True Detective: Polar Night
, the fourth season of the HBO series,
told AFP .
"Fan" of the first season, Jodie Foster says she said "immediately yes" to Issa López. "I haven't done any television series since the 1970s. It's something new for me as an actress, even though I work in streaming as a director," she said.
"That's where the projects are made now.
The most interesting things happen on the small screen
," said the actress, nominated for the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best supporting role in "Nyad," a film produced by Netflix.
For her True Detective
partner
Kali Reis
,
Jodie Foster has been "a mentor."
The boxer turned actress considers herself lucky to have seen the "legend (...) perform in her territory. It's everything for her, she's been doing that since she was three years old," said Reis, 37, who barely plays his second film role.
Both play
two police officers who investigate the disappearance of scientists in Alaska
a few days before Christmas, in a time without daylight hours. "They are two women who live in a man's world. Because the police are a man's world," said Jodie Foster.
This fourth season wants to be "the reflection" of the first, starring
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
and released in 2014, said the unforgettable FBI agent from
The Silence of the Lambs
, from 1991).
There "it was about two boys, it was in Louisiana, it was hot, everyone was sweating...", commented Foster, highlighting that against "the clarity of that brutal light" of Louisiana, the situation of "two women" is contrasted. , in the dark, the cold, in the furthest place on the planet."
A
formula for success
, as this season has been the most watched of the series, with 2.7 million viewers around the world in the case of the fifth and penultimate episode last Saturday, according to Warner Bros. Discovery audience ratings. and the Nielsen company.