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Jodie Foster "got stuck" in acting even though she preferred the "technical side of filmmaking". 'The Silence of The Lambs' star shot to fame as a child after getting started in showbiz at the age of three and she's admitted she never really loved acting because she actually preferred behind behind the camera. In a chat with actress Jodie Comer for Interview magazine, she explained: "I just got stuck in it when I was three. I probably would’ve been a lawyer or a college professor. It’s just not my way. "So I loved the technical sides of filmmaking, but I never fell in love with the acting part...
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Jodie Foster hasn't appeared in a play for over 40 years as a result of a "traumatic" incident during a college production. The 'True Detective: Night Country' actress was horrified to learn John Hinckley Jr. had attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in a bid to impress her and despite the incident - for which the shooter was eventually acquitted on mental health grounds and committed to a hospital - causing her world to "fall apart", Jodie was determined the Yale University show must go on. Speaking to Jodie Comer for Interview magazine, she said: "I’m finally able to admit th...
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Jodie Foster experienced her "worst nightmare" while filming 'True Detective: Night Country'. The 61-year-old actress played the tough cop Chief Liz Danvers in the latest installment of the limited series and she admitted a scene where she had to fall through the ice was terrifying because the water tank was pitch black and she her clothes had deliberately been weighted down. Asked which scene she had expected filming to be "hell", she told Robert Downey Jr. for Variety's Actors on Actors series: "Falling through the ice. Because I kept saying, 'How are we going to do it?' And they’d be like, ...
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Naomi Watts had a "very awkward" audition when she had to "make-out" with a "very well-known" actor. The 55-year-old star didn't name the project or her potential co-star, but she told how the pair had a "mortifying" experience when they didn't hear "cut" being called and kept kissing for too long, leaving her "rattled". Speaking with Jodie Foster, Brie Larson, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, Ana Sawai and Sofía Vergara for The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actresses round table, she recalled: "It was very awkward. I was auditioning and I didn’t get the job, so clearly I did not do a good make-o...
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Jodie Foster was "always interested in having a real life" away from stardom. The 61-year-old actress started out in Hollywood as a child with films such as 'Taxi Driver' and the original 'Freaky Friday' before making a successful transition into an Oscar-winning career as an adult but reflected that it was perhaps her early stardom that made her yearn to be a "real person" in most of her movie roles. She told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I don't want to be thought about in a rarified way. I think that's what I like about my work; if you really look at it there's a rawness to it and there's a rea...
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Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at 'Barbie's Oscars snub during his Academy Awards opening monologue. The 56-year-old actor kicked off the annual ceremony at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre on Sunday (10.03.24) by recapping the Hollywood highlights over the last year, and he couldn't resist telling off the audience for failing to shortlist Greta Gerwig for Best Director and Margot Robbie for Best Actress. He said: "'Barbie' was a monster hit. What a thing, what an achievement. To take a plastic doll nobody even liked anymore...now Barbie's a feminist icon thanks to Greta Gerwig, who many believe deserved to...
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Jodie Foster hasn't allowed fame and success to change her. The 61-year-old star has enjoyed huge success during her career, which includes winning two Oscars - but Jodie has never diluted her real-life self in the pursuit of fame. Discussing the secrets of her success on the Oscars red carpet, Jodie told ABC News: "[The key] I think mostly just be yourself. "There's a lot of temptation to turn into somebody else and like, stick things in your face ... you know, hate yourself. I've just always been myself. Yeah, that's kind of all I do." Jodie previously won the Best Actress in a Leading Role ...
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Annette Bening imagines cutting off the heads of actors she doesn’t find attractive if they have to do love scenes. The five-time Oscar nominee, 65, said the fantasy is a technique she picked up from a former acting coach, who said if she ever ended up performing intimate moments with co-stars she didn’t find appealing to imagine replacing their heads with someone she did find attractive. She told The Times about acting with people to whom she feels “decidedly unattracted”: “Well, you imagine taking the head of that person off, and you replace it with the head of whoever it is that you’d have ...
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Jodie Foster thinks it is "cool" there's been 47 years between her first Oscar nomination and her most recent. The 61-year-old actress was recently shortlisted for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role accolade for her work on 'Nyad' and she's pleased it has put her in second place for the longest timespan between first and last acting nods from the Academy, bettered only by Katherine Hepburn, who had a 48-year gap. Jodie - whose first nomination was for 'Taxi Driver' in 1976 - told The Rake: “Oh, really. That’s cool, I like that statistic. Look, I worked in the sixties, the seventies, the eig...
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Emily Blunt found out about her Oscar nomination while she was picking up dog poop. 'The Devil Wears Prada' star landed a nod in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in 'Oppenheimer' and she was told she was in the running for the trophy while she was out in New York taking her pet pooch for a walk - and she broke down in tears. During a talk with Josh Horowitz at 92NY in the Big Apple, Emily explained: "It’s all quite scary, the anticipation of it, and I think you just try not to listen to buzz because buzz can be built on sand sometimes. And so when it did happen, and when it ha...
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