She could have been in Los Angeles, among her peers, for the traditional family photo of Oscar nominees.
But on Tuesday, Jodie Foster, in the running on March 10 for the statuette for best supporting role for her performance as a sports coach in
Unsinkable
, had chosen to be in Paris with her accomplices from
True Detective Night Country
: screenwriter Issa Lopez and her partner, former boxing champion Kali Reiss.
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After several years of absence, the detective anthology which mixes territory and murderous instincts returned to HBO (the Warner Pass on Prime Video in France).
In a new format: with a duo of female investigators, a claimed social conscience, a lost corner of America swept away by the cold.
Without forgetting the much stronger supernatural and mystical touch.
Zen and caring
So many qualities that appealed to Jodie Foster, who nevertheless chooses her roles sparingly.
The actress, perfectly at ease in the language of Molière, received guests in her suite at the Bristol - also stormed a floor below by the teams from
Denis Villeneuve's
Dune .
Very zen and caring despite the rapid interview slots that followed one another, the legend of
Taxi Driver
outlined the results of this strange investigation taking place in Alaska, plunged into the polar night and subject more than ever to the forces of nature and of the mind.
Also read: Jodie Foster: “With True Detective, I feel the same exaltation as with The Silence of the Lambs”
This enigma, surrounding the disappearance of half a dozen scientists from a research station, will be resolved this Monday with the broadcast of the sixth and final episode.
This epilogue, the
Silence of the Lambs
actress “
didn’t see it coming”.
We won't tell you more to avoid spoilers for the moment.
But at the end of next week, the most curious will be able to find
Issa Lopez's explanations on
TV Magazine .
“This ending preserves the delicate balance of the series between rationality and fantasy
,” assures Jodie Foster, who appreciates the ambiguity.
The actress, moreover, found a lot of strength and merit in
Anatomy of a Fall.
Justine Triet's Palme d'Or, in the running for five Oscars, cultivates a similar uncertainty about the guilt or not of its heroine: a novelist accused of having killed her husband.