Jodie Foster has been making some bold statements lately.
The 61-year-old actress has been steadily acting since she was three years old. Because of this, by the time she filmed Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, she had become something of a veteran.
She was only 12 when she made the film, but now she says her experience scared them.
“The first time I worked with Martin Scorsese was when I was about 10 years old, on 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,'” she said in a new interview with W Magazine. “By the time she was 12, she had made more movies than De Niro or Scorsese.
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Jodie Foster has been in the news for making controversial comments in a recent interview. (Stephanie Keenan/Getty Images for Museum of Contemporary Art)
“They were definitely scared of me. 'What do we do with this 12-year-old?' I was wearing hot pants and Corky shoes, or what we call those platform shoes.”
Foster played a child prostitute in the 1976 drama. De Niro was 31 years old at the time of filming and had been an actor for about 10 years. Scorsese has directed seven feature films and numerous short films.
She has had a successful career since she was young, but for many she says De Niro and Scorsese, who have been successful for decades, are “afraid” of her in that sense. It seemed strange.
Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro sit together in a diner in a still from Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver. (Columbia Pictures/Photo International/Getty Images)
Further comments she has made recently have also raised eyebrows. In her interview with the Guardian last week, she shared some critical thoughts about Gen Z.
“They're really annoying, especially at work,” she complained. “They're like, 'No, I'm not feeling well today, so I'm going to work at 10:30 a.m.' Or they'll email me and say this is all grammatically incorrect. Didn't you?'' Check the spelling? And they say, “Why would you do that? Isn't that what it is?'' Restrict? ”
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Actress Jodie Foster recently claimed that Gen Z is “a real nuisance” in the workplace. (Elise Jankowski/Correspondent)
Appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” This week, she tried to clarify that statement, saying, “I got a little bit of grief from my sons about that. Well, you're getting older and you're like, 'Well, in my day, so are we.' “There is a tendency to do that,” he said. She had to walk to school in crampons.'' Or something like that.
“But the new generation, you know, they're lucky because they learned to say no, and we didn't know that. We have a kind of freedom. There wasn't, and there's a double edge to that: what you learn when you don't have freedom and you're overly disciplined.”
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Foster has two sons, Charles (25) and Kit (22). She made yet another statement about her sons in an interview with the Guardian that caused controversy.
Jodie Foster and sons Kit and Charles, 2016. (Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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“Neither of us like sports,” she explained. “They like watching movies, sitting at home, and they're into female friends. They're very feminist.
“And when my older child was in high school, he was raised by two women, three women, so there was a moment where he was like trying to figure out what it meant to be a boy. And then… He was looking at it.'' “Oh, I just need to be a——. Got it! Like s— and f— with women. I came to the conclusion that I need to behave accordingly. —.''
“And I thought, no! That's not what it means to be a man! That's what our culture has been selling you all along,” she remembers saying.
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Ms Foster said this phase had lasted six months and was then asked if she would leave it alone.
“Yes and no,” she answered. “I was like, 'There's no way you're going to talk to me like that.'”
