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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJodie Foster has surprised the Star Wars fandom by sharing a revelation about Princess Leia.The actor and director currently leads the cast of HBO anthology series True Detective: Night Country, which is receiving positive reviews despite despite a few niggles from fans of the show.Foster, 61, has been reflecting on her career in several interviews over the past month and, having…

If you could become a TV or film character – either one you’ve played or not – for a week, who would you be? DoartphoAt the moment, I’d like to be Mary Poppins, because she’s incredibly efficient and I need to tidy my apartment. Being her for a week would help me out massively. I’d like to see what Chloe Gemell from My Mad Fat Diary is doing. I wonder where she is now, what she’s up to? She’s very innocent, which I enjoyed.How would your most famous roles have differed had you chosen to play them with your natural…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIf it were angled more traditionally, The End We Start From could have been a Hollywood disaster movie. It would be about a bearded, tender-hearted hero, whose partner gives birth just as unprecedented flood waters consume their London home. He’d take them to his parents’s house, on higher ground, but would find only waning food stocks, hysterical crowds, and violent looters. His…

"I don't know how good I would have been," the actress admitted in an interview on The Tonight Show It’s no secret that Jodie Foster was once up for the part of Princess Leia in Star Wars — a role that became iconic for Carrie Fisher. But in a new interview on The Tonight Show Foster explained that the only reason she passed was because of a scheduling issue. “I had a conflict,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie…

Here is a post-apocalyptic drama of survival, a fiercely acted and unnerving real-time demonstration of law and order breaking down. It is all the more disturbing, credible and immediate in that, unlike other examples of genre, the narrative isn’t heading for an abyss of unknowable chaos. Rather, it envisions society’s grim normalisation of disaster and loss, an evolutionary leap downwards but one in which a kind of rebirth is not ruled out.In contrast to the American post-apocalypse of John Hillcoat’s The Road, or the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJodie Foster has reflected on her time on the set of Taxi Driver, claiming that her young age proved awkward for co-workers Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.The two-time Oscar-winning actor appeared on Tuesday’s edition (10 January) of the US late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live.Speaking to host Kimmel, Foster, 61, shared some of her experiences from being a child actor – namely, her…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Jodie Foster has divided opinion with recent comments about the work ethic of Generation Z.A former child star herself, Foster began working as a child model when she was just three years old, and was nominated for her first Oscar for Taxi Driver aged 14.In an interview with The Guardian, Foster, 61, explained that she’d reached out to…

Jodie Foster knows quite a bit about being a young person carving out a career in Hollywood. After all, the venerable actor-director’s first acting role came when she was age three. Later, she was cast for Taxi Driver at age 12, for which she was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category. So, she has quite a bit of empathy for young people who are coming up in the industry and she offered advice and talked mentorship in a new profile by The Guardian published on Sunday. The True Detective:…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJodie Foster has reflected on the differences between being a young woman in the entertainment industry today, compared to her own experiences.Foster, 61, has been a familiar Hollywood face since she was a child, gaining early credits in kids’ musical Bugsy Malone (1976) at 13, and later that year, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver aged 14.In a new interview with The Guardian, the Nyad…

It is roughly 58 years since Jodie Foster’s first acting role and there are things she won’t put up with on set. She won’t be told how to get into character. She won’t tolerate what she calls “­voodoo” directing, that is am-dram, shake-your-body-out ­nonsense. She won’t respond to certain types of “alpha” interference from people up the industry chain. (The only time Foster submits to bossy producers, she says, is when they are “super passive-aggressive ­British ­people” – a type she just can’t resist.) In work mode, and…