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Jodie Foster on ‘Vie Privée’ in Cannes, What Trump Means for Female Directors and Why Turning 60 Led to Career Contentment: ‘There’s a Freedom’

Jodie Foster talks about her new film 'Vie Privée,' her career renaissance and the challenges facing female directors.

It’s a few hours before the Cannes premiere of “Vie Privée,” a French thriller that Foster, despite her natural aversion to performing, found impossible to resist. It seems to have reawakened a love for a job she’s been doing since she first captivated audiences with her turns in Disney classics like “Freaky Friday” and grittier stories like “Taxi Driver,” before winning Oscars for “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Accused.” America had a sort of golden moment of consciousness in the last 10 years where the men that made the decisions — and who were blind to their own xenophobia and racism and sexism — suddenly woke up and were like, “Hey, why are there no women on our list of directors?” They were being called out publicly, of course, but that forced them to look at themselves and decide to change.

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