Jodie Foster: Actress, movie producer and director
Jodie Foster said...
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. "You say...
2 comments to date. The most recent comments:Mondo Stars editors from Boulder Colorado USA (February 9, 2011)
Jodie Foster Talks about Her Upcoming Movie and Depression: 'We Can't Give Up on One Another'
-- February 8, 2011 -- In the new issue of the Advocate, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) presents an exclusive cover story interview with actress Jodie Foster about her upcoming new movie.
Foster directed and stars in The Beaver, which will be released in spring 2011. The movie deals with major depression and a family striving for recovery. In the moving comedy-drama, a man living with mental illness becomes disconnected from his family and needs help.
He begins to communicate through a beaver puppet.
Foster acknowledges that "depression is a serious thing …and there is nothing romantic about it," but "we are born with comedy and tragedy and that is in some ways the human condition."
"Depression is a part of all our lives. Everyone has experience with it either in their own families or with friends. I had a lot of personal connections," Foster said.
"When you are acting and you squeeze everything out of the sponge, you learn much more about it. I took this very personal topic that I have a lot of feelings about and I say everything that there is possible to say about it," she continued.
In the interview, Foster discussed a "ruminating spirit" often connected to depression.
"There is the type of person who sees a problem, tragedy or complicated situation and instead of running from it, they ask questions …Why did this happen? Let me think about this in 500 ways."
"Some depressed people show that they have the propensity to ruminate," she said. "There is a line of course when it is very dangerous with depression, and that is part of what the movie addresses as well."
In the movie, healing begins, but there are no easy answers.
"We can't give up on one another," Foster said. If there is any lesson to be learned that's the one."
CLARIECE from SHERMAN TX/USA (May 21, 2007)
jODI IS A CLEAN CUT, PRETTY GAL
HER NAME ON A MOVIE IS A 'MUST SEE' FOR ME.
I LIKE HER WORK VERY MUCH
What do people think of Jodie?
People say: Jodie Foster is brilliant, incredibly smart. She is usually honest and quite sexy.
She is a beautiful, classy and powerful sweetheart.
Rate Jodie Foster
Your comments about Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is an actress, producer, and director best known for her role as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs film adaptation.
Born Alicia Christian Foster, Foster grew up in exclusive California prep schools before attending Yale University where she earned a degree in English Literature and graduated magna cum laude.
Foster's acting career began in 1968 in a television role for Mayberry R.F.D. She also acted in several television commercials as the Coppertone Girl. Her first film appearance was in 1970 in Menace on the Mountain. By the age of 14, Foster received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Taxi Driver. Foster's child stardom led into her adult life. She appeared in The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs, two films which earned her Academy Awards as Best Actress. She has also worked in the French film industry because of her fluency in French.
Foster directed Little Man Tate in 1991 and Home for the Holidays in 1995. She began working as a producer in 1994 with the film Nell, which she also starred in. More recent appearance of Foster include Panic Room and Flightplan where she plays an enduring single mother.
Inside Man, a film co-starring Denzel Washington was released in March, 2006. She has said that she enjoys appearances in films that "have a real heart to them."
Foster maintains a private personal life. She has two sons, Charles (1998) and Christopher (2001), but has not released the father's identity to the media. She lived with producer Cydney Bernard for several years.
