Jodie Foster brings Money Monster to Australia, celebrates 50 years in Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD powerhouse Jodie Foster is headed Down Under. She talks about her 50-year career and why George Clooney had no time for pranks on the set of her latest movie.
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FRESH off getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, movie star turned director Jodie Foster will fly into Australia on May 30.
Foster will attend the Australian premiere of her latest movie as director, Money Monster, in Sydney.
The thriller stars George Clooney as a TV finance guru taken hostage live on air by a young man (Jack O’Connell) desperate for answers about a financial crash that ruined his life.
Julia Roberts stars as Clooney’s producer.
“Ah, the two most loved movie stars in Hollywood,” Foster told News Corp Australia of directing Roberts and Clooney. “Really fun, both of them. Fun for them to be together.”
Foster admits to working Clooney hard on Money Monster, which plays out in real time. So much so, he didn’t have time to pull any of his usual pranks.
“It was a tough movie for him. A lot of dialogue and a lot of action and a lot of multi-tasking ... I think the pranks are to come,” Foster grinned.
Money Monster opens in Australian cinemas on June 2.
Foster’s star on the Walk of Fame celebrates her near-50 years in the movie business — which stretches from her starring role in Taxi Driver aged just 12, to recently directing episodes of TV hit Orange is the New Black.
“That’s a long time,” she said. “I feel like the greatest thing about that is that I got to work in the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, the 2000s and the 2010s, and each one of those eras in some ways has been more interesting than the next.”
The star was presented by her young Panic Room co-star Kristen Stewart, who described Foster as “a baller on every level”.
“She did everything young. She kicked Yale’s ass. She won Oscars. She became a filmmaker ... and still is just normal and cool.”
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