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.
Box Office: ‘Wonka’ Triumphs Again as Jason Blum and James Wan’s ‘Night Swim’ Debuts to $12 Million “They need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs,” Foster added when asked about her advice to young actors these days. “I can help them find that, which is so much more fun than being, with all the pressure behind it, the protagonist of the story.”
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.
They were taught in school to avoid making decisions which covers a lot of ground.
Not surprised to see Jodie the lesbian reach out to Bella the non-binary they/them.
Groomer alert. Is she on the List?
A nice smile brightens a face at any age.
Did he get permission from his wife to say that?
Being pissed off for most of your life will do that.
My thoughts exactly. If John Hinckley had only known what a hag she has become, he would regret how he wasted his life.
So he wasn’t trying to help out his father and his brother?
I admire her for her art. But it ends there.
Same here. And she was certainly not a classic beauty and always projected a certain coldness.
“Gen Z, the generation directly proceeding millennials,”
proceeding?
I always know who the conservatives and lefties are when working with youngins. Lefties are lazy as hell whereas the conservatives work their tails off.
Foster has been making the press rounds for months now as an Oscar contender for her supporting role in Netflix’s swimming drama “Nyad.”
Which makes me wonder whether swimmer Diana Nyad is a lesbian. It's complicated. Sources conflict about whether "Bart Springtime" is Diana's husband or wife. I did find out to my surprise that Nyad was never in the Olympics. She was a distance swimmer and Olympic pools aren't big enough for that, no matter how many laps you do.
“And she was certainly not a classic beauty and always projected a certain coldness.”
Physically, she wasn’t any kind of beauty. She did have a “cuteness” about her when she was younger; but that could have been due to a “tomboy” uniqueness. I think most guys can remember a tomboyish girl who was athletic and freckled and wholesome; and her beauty came from being who she was and her comfort in being so.
I have seen some bad professional writing by the youngsters today.
America is so unrecognizable today I have a hard time feeling any allegiance to what it has metastasized into. I work for a megacorp that is all about DEI and catering to whatever administration is in office for the government contracts. I care about my family, but we don't really need each other as we all have our separate 401-k's, Soc. Sec., health plans, etc. The government and their private agents are our Daddies.
We have been atomized. We are all individuals! Whoopee! The Libertarians won... sorta.
This is a new thing to me. Good grammar and spelling is "limiting?"
Limiting what? Upward mobility?
-PJ
Well Jodie, they learned it from the educational system run by liberal idiots you’ve supported.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.