In the latest edition of the Golden Globes, the winner of the award for best secondary, Jodie foster (California, 58 years old), heard Jamie Lee Curtis read his name in his pajamas and from his living room – pandemic stuff – and with his wife, Alexandra Hedison, and their dog, Ziggy.
Thus, by chance, we enjoy a moment that just a decade ago would have been unimaginable. Since the dawn of the industry, homosexuals and lesbians had been forced to hide their affections on pain of losing their careers. Just eight years earlier, Foster had chosen another of the finery of the foreign press to confirm what was an open secret.
At his table, excited and sitting next to the actress’s children, was Mel Gibson, an undisguised homophobe and one of his best friends, as is another recalcitrant homophobe, James Woods. That night in 2013, Foster had become the first major star to speak publicly about his homosexuality.
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As stated in the documentary that Movistar has released this week, Jodie Foster has Hollywood in her blood. She has been part of the industry since at the age of three she accompanied her brother to record a Coppertone commercial and ended up being the one who starred in it.
At the age of 10, she had already accumulated fifty credits as an actress between series and films, and had even been bitten by a lion. As she confessed to Andy Warhol years later, that bite was decisive to continue her fledgling career: “I thought that if I could overcome that, I could be an actress for life.”
And it was. At 13 he was working for the second time with Martin Scorsese. She had been the ambiguous girl in Alicia no longer lives here (1974), but despite that experience, she was not her first choice for the role of Iris, the child prostitute with whom she Robert de Niro became obsessed in Taxi driver (1976). The one chosen by Brian de Palma, the first planned director, had been Melanie Griffith, but her mother Tippi Hedren did not allow it. Scorsese’s was Cute blair, but when she got off the project, Foster arrived. By then Jodie had been supporting the family financially for eight years.
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“That movie completely changed my life. It was the first time that I realized that acting was not a hobby, but that there was actually something of a craft, “she told The New York Times in 1991 about the film that enshrined her and in which she met one of her greats. friends, Robert de Niro.
The eighties began with an emotional and also work imbalance. His career was on the brink after a handful of failures. Those who had predicted that one day she would become a great star began to doubt her premonition and the actress herself was considering abandoning her career when Acusados arrived in 1988, a story based on a true event: the gang rape of a waitress in a crowded bar while those present cheered on the attackers.
At first, Paramount did not want her for the role because “she was not sexy” (in the words of producer Stanley Jaffe). They wanted to Kelly mcgillisBut the Top Gun star, who had been raped years earlier, was more interested in the role of an attorney. To play Sarah she suggested Foster. At that time it was rumored that they were a couple and because they had McGillis in the film they accepted. The result was the first Oscar for Foster.
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In addition to reviving Foster’s career, Acusados was a social phenomenon that for the first time put the spotlight on the re-victimization of sexually assaulted women.
The nineties was his best decade: he started with his second Oscar thanks to Demme’s thriller. The first brought something important with it: there he met his partner, the production coordinator Cydney Bernard, with whom he had a relationship for 15 years and had two children. In the second he began to forge his friendship with Mel Gibson, something that has given more to talk about than his relationships. Especially after she supported him after being accused of abuse.
She does not care too much about the opinions of others. As he did not care when the Me Too movement questioned his work with Roman Polanski in A Wild God (2011). He never showed regret for it. Nor did he launch to deny Woody Allen, with whom he worked on Shadows and Fog (1991). “We suffer from an excess of declarations. Nobody needs to hear another actor talking about it, “he settled in 2018.
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In recent years, her presence before the cameras has diminished in relation to her work as a director, but when she has regained the foreground, as in The Mauritanian, she has shown that The Washington Post was not wrong with her prediction: her talent is prodigious . As an actress and, in a Hollywood increasingly polarized, also as a peacemaker.
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