Over the course of her two decades in Hollywood, Jodie Foster has portrayed a wide range of characters, but to her two sons, she is simply “mom.”
In a recent appearance on “The View,” Foster acknowledged that she had kept her acting career a secret from her young children. Foster said, “I guess I didn’t want them to know me that way.” “I wanted them to know that I was their mother as well as the person who occasionally left to go to work. However, I simply didn’t want them to misunderstand my line of work.”
Charles “Charlie,” 25, and Christopher “Kit,” 22, are the two sons that Foster and her ex-partner Cydney Bernard have together.
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Foster claims that she brought her then-3-year-old son Charlie to work with her during her pregnancy with Kit because acting was such a foreign concept to her. One day, I took him to the set, where I got him a small plastic tool belt and other stuff. “Yeah, and this is this set and this set and this set,” I replied. And he believed I worked in construction for a very long time.”
Although the 61-year-old Foster did not say when she eventually revealed the truth, Charlie and Kit have gone to a number of her events in Hollywood. Foster claims that despite their backing, they aren’t watching her projects together.
“They don’t want to watch my movies with me at all. Regarding her current television show, “I think they’re going to catch ‘True Detective,’ because they’re really into that,” the actress stated.
“There are certain movies that I would never watch because I would be afraid of being made fun of. For instance, they’ve never seen “Nell,” despite the fact that they frequently make fun of me for it.”
In the 1994 film, Foster played a reclusive woman living in a cabin with little communication, costarring with Liam Neeson.
The well-known actress, who has two sons from that generation, gained notoriety recently for her jokes about how hard it is to work with Gen Z.
She told The Guardian, “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace.” They say something like, ‘Well, I’m not feeling it today. I’ll come in at 10:30 a.m.’ Alternatively, I’ll tell them in emails: did you not proofread your spelling? Everything is grammatically wrong. And they ask themselves, “Isn’t that kind of limiting? Why would I do that?”
