Jodie Foster reveals ‘challenging’ process of prepping for French-speaking role
uh felt nervous. You come across to me as like the most self- assured confident person in the world. Like history like I’m confident but another woman. I mean not in another language when other people are able to improvise and they can’t sometimes it’s hard to remember things. Is there I think it gave the characters on me interesting. I say say Lenny. She wasn’t that she was worried that she was never at the top of the lane and that someone else was going to be able to better. Um do you uh did you take on this role because you wanted the free trip to Paris and working there? Oh wow. I uh not not quite there but close which is I’ve really been wanting to do Christ movie for a long time. I’ve done a few but I’ve never done one where I speak as much. So, I had a lot to do. It was a big challenge and I think that’s definitely a journey to it. Do you feel like your your French must have improved like it must be like Duolingo times 10, right? Uh, well, you know, every time I get rusty when I’m in the States for a long time, I don’t speak the language at all. So, I have to go there. And before shooting, I went for 80 weeks before shooting and just didn’t speak English at all and just immerse myself so that I would my tongue would get used to because your jaw gets tired, right? Um, last question. Do you ever look back on your life, which is an insane life, and think like, holy, it just it doesn’t even seem real, some of the things you’ve gone through. Um, I think the key is to not look back too much. Uh, I mean, I I I’m always reminded of stories that are kind of amazing like that are now amazing, you know, and I say to my sons, you’ll say like, “Oh, Andy, like, oh, I can along, you know, or or I knew this guy or that guy or I did a movie with this guy.” It didn’t seem weird at the time, but now as I’m getting older, I know they’re older. Um, I guess the opportunities the opportunities that I had is now starting to sink in. You were the copperone kid. That alone. Yeah. That’s the one that usually gets people is they like, “Oh, do you ever go on SN?” And I was like, “Yeah, I know.” They’re like, “Well, who is on yours?” I was like, “Well, all of them. I mean, Tomi, Dad Akroyd, uh, you know, Ragard, all of them. um Chvy Chase and then the new the movie gang too and they were like, “Oh, who was your who was your musical guest?” I was like, “Well, this Ryan Wilson of the Beach Boys.” They’re like, you know, it’s crazy. So,
Jodie Foster soaked up the Parisian lifestyle in order to prep for her latest movie, “A Private Life,” which is entirely in French.
“I went [to Paris] three weeks before shooting and just didn’t speak English at all and immersed myself so my tongue would get used to it,” she told Page Six exclusively at the film’s New York Film Festival premiere on Sunday.
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