I don’t know what you were like when you were on set as a kid, but when I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. RONAN: I’m all right, not as good as my mom is. RONAN: I have to say, I’ve been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.įOSTER: Your whole focus gets shifted. Maybe at the end of this year, after you’ve done so much. I’ve taken breaks as the years have gone on-I burn out every once in a while. I think they just weren’t memorable movies. I made, like, five movies while I was in college. When exactly did you take a break from film?įOSTER: I’m not sure … I don’t think I ever really did. SAOIRSE RONAN: Wow, so you were already well into your film career. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, “Wow.” I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting. JODIE FOSTER: You know, when I was your age, or younger, I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. And, more and more, Foster has found her comfort zone behind the camera, watching rather than being watched.Īs she prepares for the release of her fourth film as a director, the Sidney Lumet-like drama Money Monster-starring two of the most watchable actors in film history, George Clooney and Julia Roberts-Foster looked backward through the telescope of time, talking to a brilliant young actress just beginning her career in very Foster-ian form, the Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan. Shortly after her fourth Oscar nomination, in 1995, for her work in Nell, she released her second film as a director, the incredibly charming Home for the Holidays (1995), with Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. In the late 1980s she began a white-hot run that included a pair of best actress Oscars for her performances in The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), as well as her debut as a director, Little Man Tate (1991). At Yale, she studied literature, and she says that, even now, she approaches her roles through the written word, through story, and imagery-as a director, in other words. But still she doesn’t feel herself to be a native performer.
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Really, how do you top a role in Martin Scorsese’s masterful Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) at the age of 12? How about a scene-stealing, and Oscar-nominated performance in his next film, Taxi Driver (1976), at the age of 13? For Jodie Foster, the trajectory has always been upward and steep-even if the ultimate destination was a little unclear, especially to her.īorn in Los Angeles in 1962 and raised by her mother (along with a video village of technicians) from one film set to another, Foster, now 53, hardly even remembers a time before she was an actress. But I am OLDER NOW, and SOMETIMES I WONDER whoI WOULD have BEEN and WHAT ABOUT me WOULD have CHANGED had I NOT had THESE EXPERIENCES as a YOUNG PERSON.
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