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Jodie Foster

She was born into a well heeled Californian family, where she learned French before English. From the start, her mother arranged for the girl to be in commercials. This led to television roles and feature films, in heavy roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Taxi Driver. Surprised on how she handled the subject material, she earned an Oscar nomination at 14.

She then decided to stop acting and major in African-American literature at Yale. Then, tragedy struck. An obsessive man attempted to kill President Ronald Reagan to show his love for her. Refusing to talk about the incident, she told Charlie Rose her trauma is no where near that of James Brady, the then White House Press Secretary who was paralyzed for life by the shooting.

Coming back to Hollywood, she had success in her second wave: The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, where she won the Oscar for Best Actress. Little Man Tate, Maverick, and Nell, where she earned her fourth Oscar nomination, followed. As the new millennium settled, she found steady work as a character actress and later a director.

She is Jodie Foster.

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by Anonymousreply 192December 18, 2023 2:32 PM

Rug muncher

by Anonymousreply 1August 26, 2023 12:26 AM

I always liked her in Inside Man, the movie about a bank robbery.

She is the only woman in a cast that included Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Willem Dafoe, Spike Lee, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and DL Fav Christopher Plummer.

She has more balls than all them.

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by Anonymousreply 2August 26, 2023 12:30 AM

Jodie voiced a character in the animated series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan which was animated by Eric Porter Studios in Australia.

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by Anonymousreply 3August 26, 2023 12:31 AM

Why there was never a production mounted where Jodi and Kristi McNichol fought over Leif Garrett or Shaun Cassidy I shall eternally lament. But then again, the promise of AI is that such egregious oversights can be corrected.

by Anonymousreply 4August 26, 2023 1:02 AM

She's led her life with dignity and class and came out when it was right for her to do so. She's been loyal friend to crazy Mel and her kids stay out of the spotlight and the tabloids. She's been through a lot including the crazy stalker shit. A life well led.

by Anonymousreply 5August 26, 2023 1:28 AM

[quote] She is Jodie Foster.

Who the fuck else would she be, Marie of fucking Romania?

by Anonymousreply 6August 26, 2023 1:30 AM

I admire her for many things but her acting is not one of them.

by Anonymousreply 7August 26, 2023 1:31 AM

I'm looking forward to seeing her in True Detective.

by Anonymousreply 8August 26, 2023 1:34 AM

She's my best friend!

by Anonymousreply 9August 26, 2023 1:57 AM

R5 I agree! So refined how she puts the John Hinkley incident off her and saying she feels more for James Brady.

by Anonymousreply 10August 26, 2023 1:57 AM

She and Richard Gere burned up the screen with their red-hot love scenes in "Sommersby"!

Hubba, hubba!

by Anonymousreply 11August 26, 2023 1:59 AM

Nice obituary, OP!

by Anonymousreply 12August 26, 2023 2:03 AM

Cold bitch! Brrrrrr........

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by Anonymousreply 13August 26, 2023 2:06 AM

So, she hates weakness? Because she was so fucking brave staying in the closet for so long!

by Anonymousreply 14August 26, 2023 2:11 AM

She is a woman that possesses both elegant and toughness. Sigourney Weaver also come to mind.

by Anonymousreply 15August 26, 2023 2:14 AM

I found her performance in “Nell” incredibly moving and I thought framing the story through Neeson and Richardson’d characters was a good and dramatic way of revealing her character’s story.

by Anonymousreply 16August 26, 2023 2:15 AM

[quote] Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down - hit and die. Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney. Let us hope one of her parents was not.

by Anonymousreply 17August 26, 2023 2:18 AM

Chick-a-bay-ay, R16.

by Anonymousreply 18August 26, 2023 2:18 AM

I also liked Little Man Tate. There is a scene where her son, a prodigy, says we only go out once a year: MacDonald's on his birthday.

That's all they can afford. Living in Cincinnati. If that doesn't break your heart, then I don't know what will.

by Anonymousreply 19August 26, 2023 2:19 AM

My favorite performance of hers is as the voice of the tattoo in the Never Again episode of the X-Files.

She carries so much tension her voice always seems to come out harsh but in that case I bought it.

by Anonymousreply 20August 26, 2023 2:22 AM

Shouldn't that be elegance and toughness?

by Anonymousreply 21August 26, 2023 2:27 AM

Love her.

by Anonymousreply 22August 26, 2023 2:29 AM

R5, being friends with a racist homophobe like Mel is not a good thing

by Anonymousreply 23August 26, 2023 2:31 AM

She's one of the few people in Hollywood who is wicked smart.

by Anonymousreply 24August 26, 2023 2:35 AM

Like either or both of them or not, somehow I always think of her and Tom Cruise, both of them the same age, as really the longterm most successful actors of their generation who became associated with iconic film roles and whose careers have endured over many decades.

by Anonymousreply 25August 26, 2023 2:45 AM

r19 Fun fact: The studio refused to release "Little Man Tate" under Jodie's original title. She eventually bowed to pressure, but in her heart it will always be "Little Man Taint".

by Anonymousreply 26August 26, 2023 2:48 AM

[quote] Like either or both of them or not, somehow I always think of her and Tom Cruise, both of them the same age, as really the longterm most successful actors of their generation who became associated with iconic film roles and whose careers have endured over many decades.

***ahem***

by Anonymousreply 27August 26, 2023 2:49 AM

r25 The main differences being that Jodie was never brainwashed by a cult she eventually ran, and Tom never won an Oscar, let alone 2.

by Anonymousreply 28August 26, 2023 2:51 AM

and Jodie was never really in the closet and eventually came out of what remained of her closet.

Unlike Tammt Cruise.

by Anonymousreply 29August 26, 2023 2:52 AM

Jodie should have won for Taxi Driver, then Glenn maybe could have won for Fatal Attraction and Jodie would still have the lead Oscar for Silence.

by Anonymousreply 30August 26, 2023 2:56 AM

She started so early that it's like she's always been a presence. I remember her on My Three Sons. I also remember seeing the Carny poster and thinking that she was starting to get bone structure.

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by Anonymousreply 31August 26, 2023 3:00 AM

She sucks and I hate her

by Anonymousreply 32August 26, 2023 3:05 AM

[quote]I always liked her in Inside Man, the movie about a bank robbery.

OMG, she was incredible in that. I think I saw it well after the Oscar’s had happened and all I could think was “how did she not get nominated for this? How did she not WIN an Oscar for this??”

by Anonymousreply 33August 26, 2023 3:06 AM

She didn't learn French before English. She learned French because her mother decided to send her to French-language schools in California.

[quote]She's one of the few people in Hollywood who is wicked smart.

The story I always heard is that she never lets you forget it, either.

by Anonymousreply 34August 26, 2023 3:09 AM

I remember Jodie on the tv series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" when I was a kid...and so was she!

by Anonymousreply 35August 26, 2023 3:16 AM

Even fully considering the Hinckley thing, I got tired of her complaining endlessly about how famous she was even beyond that incident (and for decades after it was over) when she's incredibly rich thanks to her fame and has multiple homes in more than one country, including one on Paris's Ile St.-Louis.

by Anonymousreply 36August 26, 2023 3:17 AM

R34, well in an industry where it seems (to an outsider) like dumb people pretend to be smart and smart people play dumb, she seems wise to remind people that she is smart. Smarter than most of them.

by Anonymousreply 37August 26, 2023 3:19 AM

Home for the Holidays is one of my favorite movies.

by Anonymousreply 38August 26, 2023 3:23 AM

[quote] Jodie should have won for Taxi Driver, then Glenn maybe could have won for Fatal Attraction and Jodie would still have the lead Oscar for Silence.

And I should have won over that.........MASCULINE OSCAR THIEF!

TWICE!

by Anonymousreply 39August 26, 2023 3:26 AM

R35 huh?

by Anonymousreply 40August 26, 2023 3:27 AM

[quote]And I should have won over that.........MASCULINE OSCAR THIEF!

[quote]TWICE!

You seem bitter r39. Is it because you’ve been nominated and lost 4 times and lost 4 times when I won both times I was nominated?

Besides, part of the reason I won is because I’m pretty and feminine in real life and I showed people what it looks like when you can transform yourself into a character. I have long lovely hair and you’ve had the same “Is she a midwestern housewife or a lesbian?”haircut for decades. You didn’t even have to change to play a real lesbian in The Kids are All Right! Lol!! What a stretch!

by Anonymousreply 41August 26, 2023 3:40 AM

What was so well healed about her upbringing?

by Anonymousreply 42August 26, 2023 3:55 AM

That quote in R13 reminds me of Margo's quip to Eve: "Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke."

One cold cucumber, and that inevitably comes across in her performances.

by Anonymousreply 43August 26, 2023 4:11 AM

She stays out of the tabloids, so I like her

by Anonymousreply 44August 26, 2023 4:19 AM

I meant Glenn in Dangerous Liaisons.

by Anonymousreply 45August 26, 2023 4:24 AM

Gorgeous and wicked smart.

by Anonymousreply 46August 26, 2023 4:28 AM

I would of thought she was from New England with how private she is with her life

by Anonymousreply 47August 26, 2023 4:31 AM

I think Contact is one of her best.

by Anonymousreply 48August 26, 2023 4:45 AM
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by Anonymousreply 49August 26, 2023 4:45 AM

[quote] I’m pretty and feminine in real life

Just like Trump is 6'3" and 215 pounds, honey.

by Anonymousreply 50August 26, 2023 5:10 AM

Not a fan.

by Anonymousreply 51August 26, 2023 5:13 AM

OP is the MARYEST MARY who ever MARYED.

by Anonymousreply 52August 26, 2023 6:54 AM

She commented about the kicked wounded bird thing in some interview a few years ago. Said she was trying to make a dumb joke but it came out completely wrong, the journalist took her seriously and now that stupid bird comment will haunt her for the rest of her life.

The Mel Gibson thing is bizarre but there was some speculation he stuck up for her years ago and helped her get work when no one wanted to hire her.

Remember her creep brother Buddy who wrote a tell all book about their family called “Foster Child?”

by Anonymousreply 53August 26, 2023 12:30 PM

I'm not convinced the kicked-bird comment was just a dumb joke. Even if it was, it's a bizarrely cruel thing to say, in any context. Would you say thst, R53? My guess is no.

The things people "joke" about, and the way they do it, often speak volumes about their thinking and character.

by Anonymousreply 54August 26, 2023 1:36 PM

Jody is a real talent as both an actor and a director.

I like the way she has navigated child stardom and emerged a fully functioning adult.

There has been lesbian drama for sure but not the Melissa E. level of fuckery.

The John Hinckley stuff was an unfortunate red herring that could have derailed her but it didn't.

High point : Contact Low point: Nell

by Anonymousreply 55August 26, 2023 1:48 PM

I don’t find her a very engaging actress and certainly not one deserving two oscars, though she came through with both of those performances.

She has done anything of note for ages.

by Anonymousreply 56August 26, 2023 1:55 PM

Typical rich dyke.

by Anonymousreply 57August 26, 2023 2:14 PM

She's exhausting.

by Anonymousreply 58August 26, 2023 2:16 PM

[quote]***ahem***—Julia Roberts and Robert Downey, Jr

****ahem ahem***

by Anonymousreply 59August 26, 2023 2:27 PM

She was a wee thing in an episode of Adam-12 where she neglected to tell the adults that her friend was stuck on a roof and had not been kidnapped, as they thought.

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by Anonymousreply 60August 26, 2023 2:38 PM

She is always at AA meetings with her wife. She’s pretty quiet. Her wife talks to everyone.

by Anonymousreply 61August 26, 2023 2:40 PM

[quote] She is a woman that possesses both elegant and toughness. Sigourney Weaver also come to mind.

Really, Tonto?

by Anonymousreply 62August 26, 2023 2:45 PM

[quote]She is always at AA meetings with her wife. She’s pretty quiet. Her wife talks to everyone.

Not so anonymous, apparently.

by Anonymousreply 63August 26, 2023 2:54 PM

Jodie unhinged in Panic Room and Flightplan

by Anonymousreply 64August 26, 2023 2:56 PM

Love Jody. A buddy of mine was friends with her at Yale. He said she was totally normal, well-read and kind. He has since passed but I believe she attended a service to celebrate his life in NYC. I have always loved her and had a crush on her as a child. I was drawn to the lesbians. Jody, Kristy, Meredith Baxter Birney. Then I discovered men and it's been dicks for me.

by Anonymousreply 65August 26, 2023 2:56 PM

She has an encyclopedic knowledge of films of the 1970’s. It would be so cool to see her in a docu-series on films of that era.

by Anonymousreply 66August 26, 2023 3:13 PM

She was fucking terrible in Elysium. Whose idea was it for her to fake (badly) a British accent?

by Anonymousreply 67August 26, 2023 3:21 PM

It's JODIE, not Jody.

You fat whores can't "love her! love her work!" all that much if you can't fucking SPELL HER NAME right.

by Anonymousreply 68August 26, 2023 3:24 PM

Cunt face.

by Anonymousreply 69August 26, 2023 3:31 PM

70 comments and no one has discussed Freaky Friday with Barbara Harris and John Astin???!

by Anonymousreply 70August 26, 2023 4:22 PM

[quote]Love Jody…

Oh, DEAR…

by Anonymousreply 71August 26, 2023 4:41 PM

Do you think she has a collection of her movies on Blu-ray and sits around watching them from time to time?

by Anonymousreply 72August 26, 2023 4:56 PM

Orangutan titties!

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by Anonymousreply 73August 26, 2023 5:08 PM

Un cadeau de France.

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by Anonymousreply 74August 26, 2023 5:17 PM

One of my favorite punk band names was JFA Jodie fosters army.

by Anonymousreply 75August 26, 2023 5:30 PM

She came from a well to do family? I thought she basically supported her family as a child.

by Anonymousreply 76August 26, 2023 5:31 PM

OP, why do you post this like you don’t know that most of the world already knows it?

by Anonymousreply 77August 26, 2023 5:37 PM

OP sounds Canadian.

by Anonymousreply 78August 26, 2023 5:42 PM

R2

A movie I can watch more than a few times. But, and not to be picky, but the woman with the bag full of parking tickets ,did a very good job as well.

by Anonymousreply 79August 26, 2023 6:01 PM

[quote]Like either or both of them or not, somehow I always think of her and Tom Cruise, both of them the same age, as really the longterm most successful actors of their generation who became associated with iconic film roles and whose careers have endured over many decades.

I love this old photo of Tom Cruise and Jodie Foster. Tom's all like "girl, you are looking FABULOUS tonight! Are the heels bothering you?"

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by Anonymousreply 80August 26, 2023 6:03 PM

I also love The Inside Man, it's a fantastic movie and the entire cast is excellent. It's not your typical bank robbery movie, there are a few clever twists.

by Anonymousreply 81August 26, 2023 6:12 PM

R79 I don't remember her, I just remember Foster being a badass woman with all these strong men.

by Anonymousreply 82August 26, 2023 6:12 PM

[quote] OP, why do you post this like you don’t know that most of the world already knows it?

Because OP is a nellie little priss who thinks she's Pauline fucking Kael, introducing various actors to the DL as if we haven't discussed them all at length before.

You can always tell her posts by the final sentence of "He/she IS [name of performer]." MARY!

by Anonymousreply 83August 26, 2023 6:13 PM

R76 She did not come from a well to do family. She supported her entire family since before she was 10.

by Anonymousreply 84August 26, 2023 6:26 PM

R82

She was the one that told the police who was speaking on the tape they had gotten from the bug the police had placed inside the bank. And it was not the bank robbers.

It was some famous dead guy and the language was not Russian.

She nailed that scene..

by Anonymousreply 85August 26, 2023 6:33 PM

[quote] Said she was trying to make a dumb joke but it came out completely wrong

That was obvious at the time.

by Anonymousreply 86August 26, 2023 6:37 PM

I love her and will pay to see her in anything. she's so classy, sexy, intelligent and smart.

by Anonymousreply 87August 26, 2023 6:45 PM

I'm looking forward to True Detective.

by Anonymousreply 88August 26, 2023 6:47 PM

Pussyhound. Major Bush supporter.

by Anonymousreply 89August 26, 2023 7:07 PM

Love me some Jodie. We’re almost exactly the same age, so I’ve followed her career closely since the Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Hello, Bugsy Malone anyone?!?! Taxi Driver was one of the first “adult”movies I’d seen and to call her performance in that movie “iconic” is an understatement. In my opinion still the best performance by a minor in Hollywood history. And, It’s unfortunate, but the Hinckley thing just adds to its legacy. It’s still compelling as hell almost 50 years later. Jodie Foster is one of those actors whose characters names stay with you. Clarice Starling. Sarah Tobias. She’s mesmerizing in everything she does because it’s always different. But she’s still a Movie Star. But not a hammy showboater. She’s a unique American presence. And I love that with her, it really is all about the work. Yeah she’s smart. And she makes smart choices. Some people find that that somehow makes her work “cold”. I find the opposite. She’s a smart woman who plays smart women. Even if they’re not “educated”. And I find that fascinating to watch.

The Mel Gibson thing though? Yeah, that I don’t get!

by Anonymousreply 90August 26, 2023 7:19 PM

Apologies for fucking up her first name. Jodie. Jodie. I won't forget again. But thanks for calling me fat all the same, R68. I LOVED her in Freaky Friday and also a Disney movie called Candleshoe. I don't think she's great at accents. Even in Silence of the Lambs I found it distracting.

by Anonymousreply 91August 26, 2023 7:23 PM

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

by Anonymousreply 92August 26, 2023 7:24 PM

I wonder if the stories of Jodie and Kelly McGillis lezzing it up together while making The Accused are true.

by Anonymousreply 93August 26, 2023 7:29 PM

R93 Wasn't she "dating" Julian Sands at the time? LOL

by Anonymousreply 94August 26, 2023 7:39 PM

Liked her a lot in Foxes.

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by Anonymousreply 95August 26, 2023 7:53 PM

Liked Maverick but Mel was no James Garner.

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by Anonymousreply 96August 26, 2023 7:55 PM

She should give her Oscars back for whatever the hell she though she was doing in Elysium

by Anonymousreply 97August 26, 2023 7:59 PM

She plays tough, smart, modern urban American women very well. That's not much of a stretch for her. But she's unconvincing in period films and was Godfuckingawful in Nell.

by Anonymousreply 98August 26, 2023 8:07 PM

She can't do comedy, can she?

by Anonymousreply 99August 26, 2023 8:09 PM

Nell wasn't a comedy?

by Anonymousreply 100August 26, 2023 8:11 PM

Yes, she was hilarious in Nell.

by Anonymousreply 101August 26, 2023 8:11 PM

I think she is forgettable. This thread actually reminded me she exists.

by Anonymousreply 102August 26, 2023 8:21 PM

I'm put off with her on a more or less permanent basis. Because The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars in '92, with Jodie carrying 'Best Actress,' it gave her a lot of weight when it came time to do the sequel, 'Hannibal.' Jodie Foster threw a fit over that book, insisting that since she'd 'originated' the character of Clarice Starling, she knew more about what the character would or wouldn't do, even more so than the author. She put her foot down, and made a rewrite of the plot a condition of her participation in the sequel. Once the studio had sank serious money into having that done, though, she fucked off anyway, and refused to continue with it, forcing them to have to re-cast, with Julianne Moore taking the role. Because of the potential loss of good money after bad, they stuck with the plot changes that Foster had forced, which ruined the sequel for me. I've never forgiven her for that.

by Anonymousreply 103August 26, 2023 8:34 PM

What plot elements were in the sequel that weren't in the book, r103? I remember it tracking the book pretty closely.

by Anonymousreply 104August 26, 2023 8:37 PM

I find her wooden and unemotional. But she is beautiful. But her acting has been overrated by some.

by Anonymousreply 105August 26, 2023 8:37 PM

Well-heeled?

by Anonymousreply 106August 26, 2023 8:40 PM

She's got a pretty limited range but she's great at what she does.

by Anonymousreply 107August 26, 2023 8:42 PM

R103

“I’ve never forgiven her for that”

I can think of few things worse that ruining a movie sequel for someone. I felt the same way about Return of the Seven.

by Anonymousreply 108August 26, 2023 8:45 PM

[quote]R104: What plot elements were in the sequel that weren't in the book? I remember it tracking the book pretty closely.

Here's how Den of Geek describes the book ending:

[quote]The book ends on its most controversial and polarizing note: Lecter rescues himself and an injured Starling from Verger’s plan, then captures Starling’s nemesis at the Justice Department, Paul Krendler, and prepares a dinner in which he and Starling eat a portion of Krendler’s brain before Lecter kills him. Lecter then digs up the bones of Starling’s father and uses hypnosis to allow her to “see” her father and say goodbye to him, after which Lecter and Starling become lovers and vanish to Buenos Aires... In the book’s logic, Starling finally accepts the love of the one man in her adult life who has treated her with respect.

The question which the article is exploring is 'Hannibal: Did Author Thomas Harris Try to Destroy Dr. Lecter?', more or less agreeing with Jodie Foster's take on the issue, that 'Clarice Starling would never do that.'

While I admit it's a minority opinion, I would have preferred to see 'Hannibal' filmed as it was written, and let the chips fall where they might have.

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by Anonymousreply 109August 26, 2023 8:46 PM

She has an IQ of 132

by Anonymousreply 110August 26, 2023 8:54 PM

Carny is a great film for those who haven’t seen it. If there was any doubt about her lez leanings after the scene at 1 hour 8 minutes, this definitely erased them. It was an open secret in Hollywood for decades. She stayed in the closet for work. Then at the globes, after her career peak obviously, she came out. Still lamentable though, even if it was for acting directing jobs, feeding the movie business. She always shut down any interviewer asking about her private life. Doing this, you couldn’t be more obvious about your sexual orientation than if you wore a sign around your neck stating it.

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by Anonymousreply 111August 26, 2023 9:00 PM

We all knew she was lez before she knew she was lez. She was classic baby dyke minus the anger. She's never come across as angry lez like Ro O'Donnell and Ellen where you just feel the rage bubbling under the surface.

by Anonymousreply 112August 26, 2023 9:08 PM

r109/PD - If I recall correctly, Harris didn't want to write the sequel so he just went for it with the grotesque outrageousness. I didn't miss the full ending of the book as I too thought it wasn't true to Clarice. Lambs holds up, Hannibal was just a money grab.

by Anonymousreply 113August 26, 2023 9:21 PM

[quote]R113: If I recall correctly, Harris didn't want to write the sequel so he just went for it with the grotesque outrageousness.

That was public speculation, like the position taken by the article I linked at R109.

Anyone taken by surprise by the ending of 'Hannibal,' hadn't really been paying attention to what Harris had been saying throughout the series of books, including 'Red Dragon.' All of them were about peoples' journeys towards becoming a 'monster.' Will Graham, the protagonist of 'Red Dragon', was said to have been so good at profiling and capturing monsters because he was one, albeit one that hadn't yet taken the final steps and crossed over. Harris wrote Starling to be capable of making that transition because of her childhood suffering and her natural brilliance. It's why he made her a cannibal in the end. He was not trying to end or ruin anything.

by Anonymousreply 114August 26, 2023 9:31 PM

[quote]Anyone taken by surprise by the ending of 'Hannibal,' hadn't really been paying attention to what Harris had been saying throughout the series of books

Then the movie should have been clearer on that, r114, as how many people had read *all* of the books? And there's no way you buy them becoming world-traveling lovers with zero sexual chemistry between the two in either movie. Also, if I recall correctly, didn't he keep Clarice drugged up or hypnotized?

by Anonymousreply 115August 26, 2023 9:56 PM

[quote]R115: Then the movie should have been clearer on that, [R114], as how many people had read *all* of the books?

Which movie? Hannibal? They completely re-wrote the ending to comply with Foster's demands, and the rest of the screenplay reflected the new direction they were taking. It wasn't an issue germane to the movie.

'Red Dragon' was perfectly clear on the issue of protagonists "becoming a monster."

[quote] And there's no way you buy them becoming world-traveling lovers with zero sexual chemistry between the two in either movie.

Again, 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠, not the 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑠.

Whatever chemistry was being built, it was done in the books. As a film, 'The Silence of the Lambs' still possessed that possibility.

[quote]Also, if I recall correctly, didn't he keep Clarice drugged up or hypnotized?

At first. But then he gradually reduced the sedation until at last she was clean, and she still stayed with him. I have to admit, I struggled with the drugging part. But psychotherapy often involves the use of both medication and talk therapy to make someone see things differently; what Lecter was depicted as doing was not entirely out of the ordinary, except in the sense of his relationship with his patient. Oh, and killing and eating people. :)

Perhaps it wouldn't have worked as a film, at least not successfully. But I would still have preferred to see it on the author's terms, rather than on the terms of an actor who teased her participation, but then ditched out on the project. Anyone can say, 'I don't buy that,' and often do; it's probably the laziest statement of criticism out there. And filmed the way it was written, one would still be at liberty to say that. Ultimately, having seen it, maybe I would have said that. But it wasn't filmed the way it was written. Now we will never know.

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by Anonymousreply 116August 26, 2023 10:23 PM

I never knew the final product that is the film Hannibal incorporated Jodie’s script changes in it. She might’ve demanded it at the time Demme was considered doing it, but then he dropped out, and then, without him, she finally walked. Plus I don’t how ultimately serious she was doing it, especially without Demme. I think she has said she was prepping to do that Flora Plum movie with Russell Crowe that ultimately never got made, but they went as far to accommodate her changes so I guess we will never know.

by Anonymousreply 117August 26, 2023 10:38 PM

“Wicked smart”? Oh, the irony, R24!

by Anonymousreply 118August 26, 2023 10:42 PM

[quote]She is always at AA meetings with her wife. She’s pretty quiet. Her wife talks to everyone.

How to carry the tradition of anonymity!

by Anonymousreply 119August 26, 2023 11:48 PM

You’re in a fucking gossip site r191. I’m the only one who brought the gossip. I didn’t say where she goes. I didn’t say what time. So fuck off.

by Anonymousreply 120August 26, 2023 11:53 PM

Jodie Foster got hit in the head with a baseball.

It was fabulous.

by Anonymousreply 121August 27, 2023 12:01 AM

The movie ending of Hannibal was much better than the book ending of Hannibal and made a lot more sense in regards to Clarice's character, but both the book and the movie were nowhere near as good as Silence Of the Lambs.

by Anonymousreply 122August 27, 2023 12:08 AM

[quote] Because of the potential loss of good money after bad, they stuck with the plot changes that Foster had forced, which ruined the sequel for me. I've never forgiven her for that.

MARY!

by Anonymousreply 123August 27, 2023 12:09 AM

bonk

by Anonymousreply 124August 27, 2023 12:10 AM

r113 it was pretty much known by everyone that Harris only wrote Hannibal as a money grab. After the enormous success of SOTL, Harris could've written any shit at all and it would've been a best seller.

by Anonymousreply 125August 27, 2023 12:12 AM

She’s brittle looking.

by Anonymousreply 126August 27, 2023 12:14 AM

Hey, r120...quit digging.

by Anonymousreply 127August 27, 2023 12:36 AM

Always thought she was a bit plain but met her in 1994 and she was stunning. Radiant! Same with Tatum O’Neal. Gorgeous in person (mid 90s).

by Anonymousreply 128August 27, 2023 12:53 AM

R127, dIG THIS.

by Anonymousreply 129August 27, 2023 1:31 AM

I liked the book Hannibal a lot, except the ending. I like the movie ending better.

Hannibal Rising was the money grab, FYI.

by Anonymousreply 130August 27, 2023 2:02 AM

Wow. So much in depth analysis of Jodie. Look, I don't find her perfect. I'm sure she has done some movies she regrets. Or regrets her performance. But at the end of the day, I enjoy watching her on screen for a couple hours carrying a good story. She's got a certain je ne sais quio.

by Anonymousreply 131August 27, 2023 2:20 AM

I was horrified to see Jodie paired with Danny like troll dolls stranded on the Island of Misfit Toys.

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by Anonymousreply 132August 27, 2023 2:23 AM

She's in MENSA.

by Anonymousreply 133August 27, 2023 10:54 PM

My understanding, r133, is that she's more into WOMENSA.

by Anonymousreply 134August 27, 2023 10:56 PM

Will she revisit Tallulah?

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by Anonymousreply 135August 27, 2023 11:05 PM

R133 you mean she’s got her red wings?

by Anonymousreply 136August 27, 2023 11:25 PM

R48 - yes! I loved Contact growing up and remember it as such a great sci-fi film that infused with so much humanity and optimism that I didn't find in most of its contemporaries.

by Anonymousreply 137August 27, 2023 11:37 PM

^ ...that *was* infused with...

by Anonymousreply 138August 27, 2023 11:37 PM

[quote]She's got a pretty limited range but she's great at what she does.

Agreed; if there's ever a bio pic of Caroline Kennedy, Jody should get the role.

by Anonymousreply 139August 28, 2023 12:05 AM

[quote] Jody should get the role.

It's STILL not Jody.

J O D I E

by Anonymousreply 140August 28, 2023 9:49 PM

Jodi is great

by Anonymousreply 141August 28, 2023 10:11 PM

R141 = Alexandra Hedison, in post cunnilingus bliss…

by Anonymousreply 142August 29, 2023 2:24 AM

She's usually very interesting to watch on screen, but not really a great actress - if that makes sense?

by Anonymousreply 143August 29, 2023 2:31 AM

[quote] Jodie Foster is one of those actors whose characters names stay with you. Clarice Starling. Sarah Tobias.

Nell Kellty.

by Anonymousreply 144August 29, 2023 2:36 AM

I hated her in Contact. Making that tight, thin-lipped face when she was listening for signals from outer space.

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by Anonymousreply 145August 29, 2023 6:20 PM

For someone who is always thought to be a great actress Jodie Foster sure has done some laughably awful performances - "Nell", "Elysium", "Silence of the Lambs." Maybe she was considered a better actress as a child.

by Anonymousreply 146August 29, 2023 6:23 PM

Isn’t Clarice Starling an acclaimed role of hers?

by Anonymousreply 147August 29, 2023 6:59 PM

R147 It is, but her Southern accent is awful.

by Anonymousreply 148August 29, 2023 10:22 PM

All her attempts at having an accent have sucked. The Accused, Little Man Tate, Silence of the Lambs.

by Anonymousreply 149August 29, 2023 11:01 PM

Most people aren't familiar with a backwoods hick West Virginia accent so the accent she used was convincing enough.

by Anonymousreply 150August 30, 2023 1:08 AM

Young girl actresses weren't too plentiful in the mid 70s but there was Foster, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal, Linda Blair, Diane Lane, Brooke Shields and even Mariel Hemingway. McNichol was the best and most natural of them all and unlike Foster was able to convey vulnerability. She wasn't able to make the leap to adult actress before she left the business but her performances, especially Little Darlings, were often very unsettling.

by Anonymousreply 151August 30, 2023 1:24 AM

R149 And I won Oscars for two of those roles. Suck that bitch.

by Anonymousreply 152August 30, 2023 3:28 AM

No thanks.

by Anonymousreply 153August 30, 2023 3:43 PM

[quote]Isn’t Clarice Starling an acclaimed role of hers?

She only won the Academy Award for it: that's all.

But there's one troll who is completely obsessed with insisting it is one of the most shameful performances of all time, though no one else will agree with him.

by Anonymousreply 154August 30, 2023 3:51 PM

The Silence Of the Lambs is one of the greatest films of all time and a part of pop culture. Everybody has seen that movie.

by Anonymousreply 155August 30, 2023 3:53 PM

I agree with him r154. I think there’s some other people who do as well.

If you like Jodie’s acting more power to you.

by Anonymousreply 156August 30, 2023 5:13 PM

Haven’t seen SOTL in years. Time to revisit, with her accent in mind.

by Anonymousreply 157August 30, 2023 5:49 PM

[quote] She only won the Academy Award for it: that's all.

Academy Awards don't mean shit.

by Anonymousreply 158August 30, 2023 8:27 PM

OP, are you certain she really is Jodie Foster and not Morgan Freeman? I mean, how can you be sure?

by Anonymousreply 159August 31, 2023 12:03 PM

R158

All Awards don’t mean shit

by Anonymousreply 160August 31, 2023 1:22 PM

[quote] Do you think she has a collection of her movies on Blu-ray and sits around watching them from time to time?

She should make that a daily ritual.

by Anonymousreply 161August 31, 2023 3:34 PM

Who is the loony queen writing these obituary style novelas that end with "s/he is ____?" Such a weird troll. Clearly has a lot of time.

by Anonymousreply 162August 31, 2023 4:22 PM

Now here is someone who came out the womb lesbianing!

by Anonymousreply 163December 12, 2023 3:56 AM

You dam spanky OP. She is phenomenal.

by Anonymousreply 164December 12, 2023 3:57 AM

R6 You are fun-nyyyy. Omg. 😆 that was funny.

by Anonymousreply 165December 12, 2023 3:59 AM

She was horrible in Anna and the King. Terrible English accent.

by Anonymousreply 166December 12, 2023 4:45 AM

I loved her in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

by Anonymousreply 167December 12, 2023 5:21 AM

She was very good in the recent film Nyad.

by Anonymousreply 168December 12, 2023 7:27 AM

I used to love Jodie, but gradually, little things about her chipped away at my esteem: staying so long in the closet, best friends with Mel Gibson and James Woods (probably conceiving one of her sons with Woods!), the kicked bird comment. She's lost her luster for me at this point. Very good actress within a narrow range, though.

by Anonymousreply 169December 12, 2023 8:09 AM

How did she learn French before she learnt English? Were her non-French family speak only French at home?

by Anonymousreply 170December 12, 2023 8:33 AM

Saw her on the street recently in New York and she looked great.

by Anonymousreply 171December 12, 2023 1:53 PM

I believe she went to the Lycée Francais, like Molly Ringwald did (whom I didn't know spoke French fluently until recently).

by Anonymousreply 172December 12, 2023 1:53 PM

she needs to be georgia cappleman in the markel murder movie

by Anonymousreply 173December 12, 2023 1:56 PM

I think she's a very fine actress and felt sympathy for her during the Hinckley event.

by Anonymousreply 174December 12, 2023 2:04 PM

[quote]So refined how she puts the John Hinkley incident off her and saying she feels more for James Brady.

People who are successful in life and have other accomplishments don’t need to make perpetual victimhood their entire identity.

by Anonymousreply 175December 12, 2023 2:06 PM

Jodie always looks like she just stepped in dog shit and then spends the next few minutes trying to figure out where and how that happened.

by Anonymousreply 176December 12, 2023 2:33 PM

She IS Jodie Foster!

*nellie gay boy jazz hands flourish*

by Anonymousreply 177December 12, 2023 2:35 PM

I wrote about this here a while back...

Years and years ago by the pool at the Sunset Marquis in WeHo. I was reading Dershowitz’s “Reversal of Fortune” about Claus von Bulow. Jodie saw it and asked me about the book. This was long before the movie came out so maybe the film was a possibility? We chatted for a bit, then she went back and forth with a couple of women her age she was with. No idea if they were lez or not. This was maybe May or June of 1986? She wasn’t long out of Yale. Alexander Gudonov was sunning himself in the lounger on the other side of me wearing nothing but tiny, well-filled yellow Speedos. We were all drinking something.

That big bulge and the fact that Jody had one of the trashiest mouths I’d ever heard - all “fuck/shit/motherfucker” (either it was a more innocent time or I was back then) - is what I remember of that sunny summer afternoon in LA.

by Anonymousreply 178December 12, 2023 3:34 PM

Gudonov had BDF....wow

by Anonymousreply 179December 12, 2023 3:40 PM

R175 you must be a mean spirited nasty person. You think think an 18 yr old girl asked for that? And dined out on it? She became a hugely successful and respected professional actor in spite of it. What a cunt you must be in life.

by Anonymousreply 180December 16, 2023 6:10 AM

“Why me like not ever many time go by years you, please?!”

by Anonymousreply 181December 16, 2023 8:44 AM

Gudenov was one of the most gorgeous guys ever. I just saw some pics damn he was so fine. Bisset was lucky. Sad that he drank himself to death. He came across as a bit of an airhead. But he’s an athletic version of Peter Davison

by Anonymousreply 182December 16, 2023 9:06 AM

R20 they couldn't afford the blow drying bills for a production like that.

by Anonymousreply 183December 17, 2023 2:49 AM

Her aunt pulled a gun on her mother’s abusive lover.

by Anonymousreply 184December 17, 2023 2:53 AM

[quote] the kicked bird comment

The what?

by Anonymousreply 185December 17, 2023 2:55 AM

She’s named after her mother’s lover. Jo Dominguez - Jo-D. Get it? The siblings called her that instead of Alicia and it stuck.

Yes - you better believe I read her loser brother’s book “FOSTER CHILD” in the 90s as a gayling. I was riveted.

by Anonymousreply 186December 17, 2023 2:55 AM

Who is Jodi's father? Was he a smart man? Were her parents wealthy?

by Anonymousreply 187December 17, 2023 3:09 AM

^really? She supported her family since she was a child. Do you think they were wealthy?

by Anonymousreply 188December 17, 2023 3:17 AM

How fucking high/drunk was she in this photo?

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by Anonymousreply 189December 17, 2023 8:21 AM

R111, decades?

by Anonymousreply 190December 18, 2023 12:56 PM

R111, decades?

by Anonymousreply 191December 18, 2023 12:57 PM

She came out the womb lesbianing

by Anonymousreply 192December 18, 2023 2:32 PM
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