I had my time,” said actress Jodie Foster. “And it’s not my time necessarily anymore. It’s my time to support other people. And I have something to contribute, ’cause I have experience and I have wisdom. But I don’t have to play the same role that I played when I was in my 20s.”
That is the wisdom that Foster found when she entered into her 60s – a kind of professional epiphany that she blames on Mother Nature. “I think it might be a chemical thing that happens to you when you’re older, where you just kind of relax,” she said.
That’s really saying something, since she started her career at the age of three.
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By Lee Cowan
“I had my time,” said actress Jodie Foster. “And it’s not my time necessarily anymore. It’s my time to support other people. And I have something to contribute, ’cause I have experience and I have wisdom. But I don’t have to play the same role that I played when I was in my 20s.”
That is the wisdom that Foster found when she entered into her 60s – a kind of professional epiphany that she blames on Mother Nature. “I think it might be a chemical thing that happens to you when you’re older, where you just kind of relax,” she said.
That’s really saying something, since she started her career at the age of three.
With nearly 100 credits to her name and two Oscars, Foster said she’s always had a frustrating on-again, off-again love affair with acting. “Sometimes I go through years where I just don’t wanna act for a while, or I don’t find anything. I’ll read a perfectly good script about a perfectly good thing that I should be interested in, and I just don’t care.”
For most of the last decade, Foster was focused on her marriage to Alexandra Hedison and raising her two teenage boys. But then, two roles came around that have her in front of the camera again, and she says she’s prouder of them than almost anything she’s done.
Then, after a five-year wait, there’s the highly-anticipated fourth season of HBO’s “True Detective,” out next Sunday. The series, subtitled “Night Country,” is just as spooky and supernatural at the first “True Detective,” but this time, it’s set in the frigid polar winter nights of Alaska.
Foster plays Detective Liz Danvers, who’s confronting a certain darkness of her own. So, was it as cold as it looked when she were shooting? “It was probably colder than it looked,” she said. “There are moments where it’s really hard to speak!”
I didn’t think that I would come back at this level, or I didn’t think that I would come back to acting, as often as I have now,” she said.
Many thought acting was just Foster’s destiny – after all, Hollywood has always been home. She lived with her mom and three siblings in Los Angeles, just a mile from what was then a very gritty Walk of Fame. “Yes, we weren’t allowed to go there,” she said, recalling her mother’s warnings. “She said that if she ever found us on Hollywood Boulevard, that we shouldn’t come home!”
Her mom, Brandy Foster, got her into acting, and as her early manager kept her in it, Jodie says, in a gentle but firm way. In 1977 Foster told CBS’ “Who’s Who,” “She’s asked me about a thousand times, ‘Do you wanna be an actress?’ And I could have always said no. But I don’t. It’s fun.”
