Hollywood actress Jodie Foster, who first rose to fame as a child star, emphasizes that she has never sought the spotlight.
“I had to do it my way. You like me as someone who has my dignity. You can’t strip it away from me and then have me remain the me that I am,” Foster stated in an interview.
The 63-year-old actress faced criticism for not being more transparent about her sexuality over the years. However, she stands by her approach to stardom.
“Thank God there were the wonderful pioneers that were out there changing the world. That’s true of the Civil Rights Movement, and yet you have Denzel Washington, who just made movies. Are we mad at him? Does everyone have to?” she remarked.
Despite this, Foster commended Kristen Stewart, her former co-star, for boldly addressing social issues. “She is brave. She had parents that were brave. And she was given the keys to bravery. I didn’t know that I would ever have them. I thought my role was to make other people happy and to eat s***. I was the right person to put in rubber boots at 20 degrees below zero because I was never going to complain,” Foster shared.
Foster publicly discussed her sexuality for the first time in 2013 during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes.
In her heartfelt speech, she said, “I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young