For Jodie Fosterinterpretation is not a profession that he actively pursued.
“I would never have chosen to be an actor, I don’t have the personality of an actor. I’m not someone who wants to dance on a table and, you know, sing songs for people,” the famous actress, 63, said during a conversation at the Marrakech Film Festival on Sunday, November 30, for variety.
“It’s really just a cruel job that I was cast as a young person that I don’t remember starting,” continued Foster, who began appearing in commercials at just 3 years old before making her feature film debut at age 6. “So right there, it makes my work a little different because I’m not interested in acting just for the sake of acting. If I was on a desert island, I think the last thing I’d be doing is probably acting. So I was just trying to survive.”
Foster explained that he finds himself “approaching child actors of this era” as a result of his own experience.
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“I’m like, wait, where are his parents?” she said “And why isn’t anyone telling them they should stop doing so many movies or maybe not be so drunk on the red carpet? I want to take care of them because I know how dangerous it is.”
She continued, “I don’t know why anyone would want to be an actor now, if they knew that in order to be great, they would have to deal with having their life stolen in some way. I don’t know how you understand that except to have what my mother helped me to do, which is to have this very firm demarcation between your private life and your public life.”
Although acting is not her thing chosen by herselfFoster said she was always “attracted to very strong characters” and only sought out “central” roles in films.
“I didn’t want to be the sister or the wife or the daughter or the girlfriend of. I just wanted the movie to be about me,” she joked, noting that she was also “reacting to a second wave of feminist interest in saying, ‘I want to matter.’ I want to make films that matter.”
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Foster, who is also at the festival to present his latest film, Rebecca Zlotowskithe French film of A Private Life — shared that he is interested making more movies in french
“Of course, because I feel like it’s a part of my personality that I can never use, and half of my culture, because I went to a French school,” Foster said. “I love the global family of filmmaking. It feels like the same people wearing the same jeans and complaining about coffee at 3 in the morning. But it also allows me to open up and learn a new culture.”
Despite her decades-long career, Foster shared that she’s not ready to retire anytime soon.
“I’m going to make movies until I die,” he said. “You can’t get rid of me so fast.”