Los Angeles, Feb 17 (IANS) – Jodie Foster, the acclaimed actress-filmmaker, has expressed her excitement about the 47-year gap between her first Oscar nomination for ‘Taxi Driver’ and her most recent for ‘Nyad’.
The 61-year-old actress has been shortlisted for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role accolade for her work on ‘Nyad’, a biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad’s multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. This nomination comes 47 years after her first nomination for ‘Taxi Driver’ in 1976.
Jodie expressed her delight at this statistic, stating, “Oh, really. That’s cool, I like that statistic. Look, I worked in the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, the noughts, the tens and the twenties… That’s amazing, all those different eras.”
The ‘True Detective’ actress, who became the youngest double Oscar winner in history when she was 29, appreciated the freedom of being able to take her career in her own direction, including choosing more unorthodox roles and directing her first movie, ‘Little Man Tate’.
Jodie said, “When I hit 30, which was also a really happy time, I think I’d achieved the boxes I’d set out (to tick) for myself. I was like, OK, now what do I do?”
Having started her acting career at just six years old, Jodie has always been passionate about film. She stated, “I’ve never dedicated to anything as much as I’ve dedicated to the movies. When I was a kid we sat in front of my mom’s black-and-white TV in her bedroom, we got Chinese food from the Chinese food place, and we all watched the Oscars — betting on movies, seeing every film… It’s my entire life, on screen.”
This nomination and Jodie’s remarkable career are testament to her enduring talent and passion for film.
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