Film Festival Cannes: Jodie Foster describes Trump’s policy as “tragedy”

Hollywood star Jodie Foster is deeply concerned about the political situation in the United States. “It is true that it is difficult at the moment to live in the United States,” said the 62-year-old of the dpa in Cannes.

The two-time Oscar winner answered the question of whether the policy of US President Donald Trump was a factor, why she prefers to turn in Europe. At the Film Festival, she presents her new film “Vie Privée” (directed by Rebecca Zlotowski). Foster who went to a French school speaks in the work in the work.

“Tragedy that has just happened to democracy”

“It’s heartbreaking,” said Foster. “And I always have to remind people that I love my country, even though I have a European training. I love my country and I love being an American. I know that sounds crazy, right?

It sounds a bit exaggerated patriotic, but for me America is a feeling as if you are riding on horses with your grandfather, listening to Rolling Stones and dancing until 4 a.m. It is all of these things that make up you. And it is very difficult to look at the tragedy that is currently happening to democracy. “

Foster is one of the few US celebrities who have spoken out against the President since the beginning of Trump’s second term.

Foster: I am more vulnerable in French

In “Vie Privée” she embodies an American psychiatrist in Paris, who determines a patient’s supposed suicide on her own. Otherwise rather cool and distant, she passionately increases in the search for the real reason for the death of her patient and gets into a crisis.

The film is a kind of detective story with a lot of humor. Director Zlotowski said that she had to force Foster to incorporate mistakes into her French because her pronunciation was too perfect and that would not have suited the role.

Foster said: “I am a completely different person in French than in English. My voice is different. The way I express myself is different. I think I’m a little more vulnerable and insecure, I don’t want to make mistakes and I am awkward, a little nervous.”