Jodie Foster on April 15, 2023.Photo:John Sciulli/Getty Images for The Museum of Contemporary Art
John Sciulli/Getty Images for The Museum of Contemporary Art
Jodie Fosteris sharing why she’s enjoying her 60s.
The director/actress spoke withPast LivesstarGreta LeeforInterviewmagazine. During the conversation, Foster, who cast Lee in her 2016 movieMoney Monster, spoke about struggling in her 50s and how she’s feeling now at 61.
“I think it’s an age thing, because I felt these huge shifts the day I turned 30 and the day I turned 60. And 60 was the best shift of all, because I was struggling in my 50s,” Foster said after Lee, 40, referred to “ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist” to her early career.
Foster, who became famous as a child star, recalled wondering whether she would “do anything meaningful again” in her 50s and described “that awkward phase where everybody who’s in their late 40s or 50s is very busy getting all plumped and shooting s— into their face.”
“I didn’t want that life,” she said, “but I also knew that I couldn’t compete with my old self. So my 50s were tough.
Jodie Foster on Sept. 14, 2023.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The two-time Oscar winner stars alongsideAnnette Beningin the new filmNyad, a biopic of marathon swimmerDiana Nyad, on Netflix. Foster is also in the upcoming season of HBO’sTrue Detective: Night Country.
“Somehow it’s so much more satisfying to be a part of a team that’s doing something awesome than it is to be all on your own trying to jump up that hill and make something out of nothing while everybody’s like, ‘Is it going to open well?’ " Foster said in theInterviewarticle.
“And the pressure I had being a leading lady? Gosh, it all disappears the minute you say, ‘No.’ It’s shocking how great that is.”
Jodie Foster on Oct. 25, 2023.ENRIQUE CASTRO/AFP via Getty
ENRIQUE CASTRO/AFP via Getty
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Foster said she finds working in entertainment “more fun now than it has been, certainly in the last 20 years,” and that she actually finds herself more at home as a director than an actor.
“I think maybe if I have one regret in my career, it’s that I wasn’t able to make more movies as a director, but I’m really proud of the films that I made,” she said. “They weren’t these gigantic hits, but they’re really personal stories that mean a lot to me.”
source: people.com
