Nah.
Posted on 01/07/2024 1:10:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Jodie Foster took a humorous jab at Gen Z during a recent interview with The Guardian, saying they’re especially annoying to work with. Gen Z, the generation directly proceeding millennials, comprises those born after 1996 and through 2010.
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace,” Foster told the publication. “They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10:30 a.m.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”
This isn’t to say that Foster feels she’s above Gen Z. Quite the contrary, as the Oscar winner has made it a mission to reach out to young actors coming up in the industry. Foster herself started her acting career as a child. She recently made an effort to contact “The Last of Us” Emmy nominee Bella Ramsey and asked the young performer to introduce her at an event in Hollywood.
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Foster has been making the press rounds for months now as an Oscar contender for her supporting role in Netflix’s swimming drama “Nyad.” She’s also leading the fourth season of HBO’s “True Detective,” which launches Jan. 14. During an interview with Elle magazine at the end of last year, Foster went viral for expressing her criticisms with superhero movies.
“It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases,” Foster said. “Hopefully people will be sick of it soon. The good ones — like ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Matrix’ — I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
Foster’s performance in “Nyad” has earned her a Golden Globe and a Critic’s Choice Award nomination for supporting actress.
"Just what does it take to impress her?"
I had a crush on Tatum O’Neal when I was young.. lol
Gen Z has the highest percentage of people with narcissistic personality disorder than any other age group I have ever worked with.
Unbelievably selfish.
So far all have been female.
Had some complain about me and the management has always come back to me with “We agree with you!”
She stared in “Contact” and looked unhappy the entire movie.
I’m pretty sure she was not acting.
Yes, she showed some class there.
But all I really know about her is her film craft, and she is very good at that. I don’t care about her sex life; she does not seem to be “in your face” about it, and she seems to keep her personal life...well, personal (as it should be).
I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”
This is a new thing to me. Good grammar and spelling is “limiting?”
Limiting what? Upward mobility?
-PJ
SO, YOU MOVE THE DECIMAL POINT ON THEIR PAYCHECK ONE DECIMAL POINT TO THE LEFT. WHEN THEY COMPLAIN YOU SAY, “WORRYING ABOUT MATH AND PAYCHECKS IS KIND OF LIMITING, DON’T YOU THINK?”
More generational stereotyping ... fodder for weak minds.
-PJ
Good actress.
Read later.
I’m about her age and grew up watching her. She never had sex appeal to me...and now I know why. Same thing with Kristy McNichol. Amazing how that can happen even over a screen. all kinds of signaling going on with the body.
I’ve liked a lot of her work but thought her accent on Silence of the Lambs missed the mark.
The measure of a generalization is not whether it is always true, but whether it is generally true.
Nah.
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