“I think the French like me because I speak their language
,” began
Jodie Foster
with humor.
While in Paris to promote the fourth season of the series
True Detective
, the director and actress took part this Sunday, February 18, in the portrait of the week by Audrey Crespo-Mara.
The opportunity for her to recall the importance in her opinion of differentiating her private life from the professional world in which she has evolved since a young age.
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When Audrey Crespo-Mara asked the actress about the way in which she publicly accepted her homosexuality more than 10 years ago - without the firm desire to support this event as her coming out - Jodie Foster replied
: "Me I lived my life.
A life that is different from my work.
It’s a sacred thing and it’s why I’m here today.
[...] I'm still 61 years old, I worked for 58 years and I'm still here.
It’s because I kept a good distance between my personal life and my work
,” she said.
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The actress with two Oscars has never appreciated what we call the “star system” and for a very simple reason.
“It’s part of my job, it’s something I accept from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. but it’s not real life, it’s just my job
,” he explains. -she with great humility.
She adds that she accepts this whole environment of rhinestones and glitter because she
“loves films”
.
“I want to inspire people through my films, that they take the same joy that I take in front of these films because they changed my life
,” she admitted, full of gratitude.
And to continue, brushing aside:
“The rest is just what needs to be done for the job
. ”
“I always say it’s a system with survival tools, we can’t exist without them.”