Perhaps Jodie Foster wanted to take the opportunity to publicly come out, but chickened out at the last minute?
BTW, I liked when Anne Hathaway noted that Sally Field’s career had grown from being the Flying Nun to serious adult roles like Mrs Gump and Norma Rae.
Coming out is a personal thing. I didn’t find her speech oblique at all. She talked about the female love of her life at length. YMMV I guess. I liked it.
And how hard is it to spell her name right after it’s been typed many times already in this thread?
DMark, hasn’t Jodie gotten lots of grief for not making a big coming out announcement? I don’t think she dropped the ball or chickened out, I think she was sort of making fun of coming out announcements. It was supposed to be witty. She mentioned that she came out ages ago, so she was clear about that.
On the other hand, I thought it was clear she has a love/hate relationship with her career and her speech was full of emotional undercurrents.
Although I am sure it wasn’t meant to, my wife and I imagined Jessica Chastain was making a little dig at Jodie Foster in her speech when she talked about how much she had struggled and how many casting calls she had been to et cetera. Meanwhile Foster was moaning about spending her whole life in show business and her lack of privacy and how she had to struggle at points, etc. I am sure Chastain was thinking, “You had to struggle? You? Jodie Foster? Screw this bitch.”
Like I said I am sure it was all in our head.
I apologize for the misspelling of Jodie’s name. Was typing quickly before work this morning and didn’t catch it. Still, I should know better.
I don’t apologize for thinking the speech was utter crap.
Of course coming out is a personal thing - I’m Gay and can tesitify to that.
However, nobody was holding a gun to her head - it was HER choice to bring up the subject last night and I think she did a piss poor job of it. And then the random mumbling about never being on another stage after tonight, and then going back stage and backtracking on that as well?
Sounds to me like she didn’t have a clue what she was going to say until she stood there and just winged it - and didn’t do well winging it.
And I hardly think a one-half sentence, vague reference to an ex could be considered “talking about the female love of her life at length…”
For the record, Jodie Foster came out in 2007
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I don’t know, but I want to go there.
blast, I missed the whole show.
anybody want to tell me what happened? were Ferrell & Wiig making fun of him or of the movie in some way or did the camera just happen to catch Tommy Lee Jones looking cranky while they were on?
Here’s the YouTube link. The cameras panned to Tommy Lee Jones during the segment. He was beyond cranky.
If I may be a nitpicky Internet jerk, it is “I want to go to there.”
That looked set-up to me.
That would be a weird and pointless set up. I think more likely, he just didn’t know he was on camera and was caught with a sour look on his puss. He probably wasn’t even paying the bit any real attention.
From here.
It’s a roving camera person for goodness sake, and I guarantee he knew he was on camera. That said, maybe he was just annoyed at winning nothing.
Okey dokey. I was just guessing.
I took it as directly addressing the perception by some that she’s a golden girl who’s come out of nowhere and is suddenly seemingly in everything. Two years ago few had ever heard of her and now she’s a two-time Oscar nominee (much like Jennifer Lawrence).
She graduated from Julliard in 2003, did lots of plays and TV and one feature movie that came out in 2010 called Jolene. Then, boom, in 2011 she had seven (7!) movies released.
The Debt, playing a young Helen Mirren.
Coriolanus - directed by Ralph Fiennes.
Wilde Salome - directed by Al Pacino.
Texas Killing Fields
Take Shelter
The Tree Of Life, and
The Help, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (she lost to Octavia Spencer, also from The Help).
She didn’t plan it that way, it’s just that the release schedules, which actors have no control over, turned out that way. She had 4 movies in 2012 and now there’s a bit of a backlash, which is stupid. What’s that saying about struggling for years and then becoming an “overnight success”? It applies to her.
I don’t think she was referring to Jodie at all. She deserved that award and probably deserves the Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty, though maybe not over Emmanuelle Riva but I haven’t seen her performance yet.
[shallow]IMO she’s the most beautiful woman in the room. Too bad her dress was the ugliest of the night.[/shallow]
I take that back. I forgot that Naomi Watts was nominated for The Impossible. I hope she wins the Oscar. She was great, what a harrowing performance! She could win because she’s been around forever (not that she’s “due” but she always gives quality performances and should have won for Mulholland Drive but she wasn’t even nominated), and she’s well-liked by everybody. A majority of Academy voters may think that Jessica and Jennifer haven’t been around long enough.
That’s just his face’s default position.
I’m torn on this speech. On the one hand, I don’t understand why everyone was so confused by it. It was crystal clear to me. I didn’t understand why everyone thought she had ‘retired from acting’. If you listened to her, you can see she wasn’t retiring. She thanked Robert Downey Jr. for ‘talking her down when she says she’s done with acting.’ “Thanks for talking me down when I say I’m done with acting, I’m done with acting, I’m really done, I’m done, I’m done”. There is no way to gather that she is retired. I don’t understand how so many people misunderstood that.
The same with her ‘coming out’ (which she did years ago at a different awards show). She DID make it plain that she is gay. She really did. She didn’t say the words “I! AM! GAY!” but we are all grown ups and we don’t need to be applesauce fed everything. She spoke in a way that is EXTREMELY clear that she is totally gay. I can’t figure how people are saying she ‘chickened out’.
She was cracking jokes, and speaking to her industry peers as if they were her main audience more so than us folks at home, but that’s fine.
On the other hand…
I don’t believe in stars whining about privacy. Celebrity comes with a lot of perks. So many perks that they must surely take advantage of many of those perks without ever knowing how we ‘little people’ have to deal with our lack of perks in similar situations all the time. So even artists who think they are very humble, are actually divas in ways that they never even notice. If they accept all of the unbelievable benefits and wealth and power of superstardom, then they don’t get to bitch about the drawbacks. I mean, they can, but not with my sympathy.
On the third, alien hand…
There is a certain level of stardom where I start to genuflect to the genius. I just read a story about how Diana Ross was denied special seating at a restaurant, and instead of being relieved to see a self entitled prima donna getting treated just like the rest of us, I found myself thinking, “How dare they treat Ms. Ross like that!” Ha. I don’t know…somehow Diana Ross has sneaked her way into some kind of special pedestal in my mind. I think that if any actor rises to that ‘special pedestal’ for me, a lifelong professional like Jodie Foster would. I mean, like she said, she really gave it all up on that screen since she was just a babe. So, I kind of forgive her for whining about privacy. Kind of.
Well, I don’t have a transcript to hand, but I was was surprised by how lovely she was being about her ex. Nice for their kids.
Nzinga, I mostly agree; I have more sympathy for Foster than I do for most slebs whining about privacy - as you note, she’s been in the public eye since she was a kid and has barely had a choice at any point.