“There are different ways of being a woman”

For a long time, Jodie Foster was the most visible lesbian in Hollywood (not that she really wanted to talk about it). Now, she feels liberated – and is helping the younger generation follow suit.

EMMA BROCKES

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 she 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 outside interactions with the press, she is conscientious, matter-of-fact, with almost no performance anxiety or self-consciousness. ‘I approach a story or character in the same way I do a book report,’ she says: ‘I like to make it pragmatic.’ The 61-year-old is…

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