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Jodie Foster: Even female studio execs 'see female directors as a risk'
Topic Started: Apr 21 2011, 04:18 PM (213 Views)
clarice
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It seems like she won't be directing a sci-fi movie after all:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/04/jodie-foster-studio-execs-see-female-directors-as-a-risk.html

Jodie Foster: Even female studio execs 'see female directors as a risk'
April 20, 2011 | 12:36 pm

In an era when women account for only 7% of the directors of Hollywood movies, Jodie Foster is the rare female whom financiers will back to helm any film, never mind a marketing challenge like "The Beaver," her upcoming $20-million tragicomedy about depression starring Mel Gibson.

When asked about the industry statistics during a recent interview promoting "The Beaver," Foster said she thought the low numbers of female directors were a result of studio executives' fears of uncertainty.

"I don’t think it’s a plot and these guys sat around and said let’s keep these women out," Foster said. "I think it’s like race psychology. When a producer hires a director, you’re hiring away your control completely. You’re bringing on somebody that will change everything. When you give that amount of power up, you want them to look like you and talk like you and think like you and it’s scary when they don’t, because what’s gonna happen? I’m gonna hand over $60 million to somebody I don’t know. I hope they look like me."

When it was mentioned that many studio executives do, in fact, look like her -- a 48-year-old white female veteran of the industry, Foster nodded. "And name the lists that come out of the female studio executives: guy, guy, guy, guy," she said. "Their job is to be as risk-averse as possible. They see female directors as a risk."

Foster got her first directing opportunity on 1991's "Little Man Tate" from male executives at Orion Pictures. In 1989, she won the lead actress Academy Award for "The Accused."

"I was acting in 'Little Man Tate' for almost no money and I had just won an Oscar," said Foster. "They were under almost no financial risk whatsoever. The real pioneers are someone that didn’t have the 'in' that I had. I had guys who knew me. I was like their daughter."

Foster, whose three films as a director have all been family dramas, said she isn't sure what she'll direct next and backed off comments she made at the South by Southwest Film Festival last month about helming a sci-fi thriller. "I’m not sure that’s gonna work out," Foster said. "But I’d like to apply what I know in other genres." Foster cited films she has appeared in as an actor, like the thriller "Panic Room," horror movie "Silence of the Lambs" and action film "The Brave One" as examples of genres in which she'd like to direct.

Asked if she would ever direct a $200-million effects-laden film, Foster said, "I would and I could, if at the heart of it there's something that moves me."
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thanks for this. :)
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Gogo
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I bet I know why she's backing off on saying that. Remember how she said she doesn't want to announce anything because it always falls down? She's backing off because she thinks she's going to jinx it. :lol-floor :crackpipe


Its still in the writing stage so its easier for her to back track. :comfort
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Artful_Dodger

I don't care what she does. As long as it's a Jodie Foster picture, I'm going to want to watch it because I know it's going to be good and have her heart in it. :wub:
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TitaniumX

I assume it's money issues. She already has a hard time finding funds for low budgets films, how could she have found enough for a sci-fi??
Edited by TitaniumX, Apr 22 2011, 08:49 PM.
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Artful_Dodger

:(
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Artful_Dodger

I'd rob a bank for her if I could.
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ohman
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Artful_Dodger
Apr 22 2011, 09:03 PM
I'd rob a bank for her if I could.
:lol I don't think that you must rob a bank for her - look: she's gonna sell one of her houses for about 10 Mio $$, so the start is made :cheers

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TitaniumX
Apr 22 2011, 08:49 PM
I assume it's money issues. She already has a hard time finding funds for low budgets films, how could she have found enough for a sci-fi??
She wouldn't be looking for funding yet. Its in script mode.
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