When an international star ages, it’s often said that that person is still working obsessively and is never thinking of retiring. Not so with Jodie Foster – she doesn’t actually do that much anymore. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 19, the Hollywood star will be 60 years old. “It turns out there are other things that are just as important as making movies,” she told the New York Times.
In fact, the actress has only made a handful of films over the past decade and has been largely absent from the screen. No big appearances, her interviews are rare, she is not on social media. It’s almost as if the Oscar winner, now nearing retirement age, is catching up on the relaxation she was denied as a child star.
She was already seen in commercials at the age of three, and her breakthrough came with “Taxi Driver” alongside Robert De Niro – when she was just 13. She also wrote film history as the young FBI agent Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs”. , a role Michelle Pfeiffer canceled because of the uncomfortable subject matter – serial murder, cannibalism and sexual obsession.
At the height of her popularity, she decided to temporarily leave film and study literature at Yale. The media hype was huge, Foster had to partially interrupt his studies, but in the end he received the second best grade “Magna cum Laude”.
Two sons, father unknown
She rarely talks about her private life. There are many theories about who the father of her two sons is. She has been married to actress Alexandra Hedison since 2014. Foster will be back in front of the camera soon. “Nyad” is about a marathon swimmer who wants to swim from Cuba to Florida. It would not be surprising if the “part-time pensioner” took a break afterwards.
Source: Nachrichten
