Jodie Foster, who says his first French -speaking starring role in A privacy Has a connection with her late mother, Evelyn Ella Almond.
During an interview with PeopleShe shares, “I always find bits and pieces of my mom in everything I do.”
At a young age, The silence of the lamb Star remembers that her mother had “fantasies about Europe”, so she signed up for the actress of a French school.
“She had this big idea that I would leave and I wanted to work in France and I wanted to make French films,” the 62-year-old reveals, adding that she always liked different languages.
Jodie also shares when she saw French films with her mother, “She wanted to say to me, ‘Tell me about the plot.’ And then I had to tell her what happened.
Back to the current time, Jodie says her character psychiatrist Lilian Steiner in A privacy Has similarities to his mother.
“My mother, when she traveled to France, became a new one. She walked the streets and she wanted to go to Metros and she would go to the flea market. And her life had the whole new one – she was a whole new character.”
She goes on, “Like Lilian, leaving everything behind to take part in a fantasy that she has about what it would be to be a French person.”
“Which is kind of what the movie is, it’s Paris as it looked in the old days, drinking little cups of coffee and her apartment. It was a lot like my mother,” says Jodie.
A privacy Hits cinemas on November 26.
