Jodie Foster Has Turned Down Starring in My Films

Turns out that for Wes Anderson, Jodie Foster is the one actor who got away…Anderson revealed that it has been a goal of his to work with the Oscar-winning star for years. Anderson even shared that Foster has turned down parts in at least three of his films.

The auteur told Collider that it was Foster’s directorial debut that actually inspired him to collaborate with the actress. “Over the years, I had so many movies that I tried to get Jodie Foster to be in,” Anderson said. “It used to be every movie, we went to Jodie Foster for a part. And I think I did it three movies in a row, maybe four. And I met her, and I liked her. And I thought it was going to get her. And I think she’s just great, Jodie Foster. And I loved her.”

He continued, “In the first movie she directed, ‘Little Man Tate,’ she plays the mother. Do you remember that movie? And she has this real sparkle. She has a lightness in it. It’s just a different kind of character. But anyway, I still would like to get Jodie Foster. But I guess after asking few times, I thought maybe I’m not… I think sometimes somebody has an idea of the kind of work they want to do at that time in his or her life, and we weren’t right.”

Anderson stayed mum about which films in particular he was in contact about with Foster. “Well, I don’t like to say, because if I say, then you say, ‘Oh, you mean so-and-so, who’s in the movie, wasn’t your first choice.’ And so I don’t want that to be a thing,” he said. “But anyway, she’s pretty amazing, Jodie Foster.”

Foster recently praised her late “Silence of the Lambs” director Jonathan Demme for being one of the “feminist” filmmakers she has collaborated with in her career. And Anderson isn’t the only director clamoring to work with Foster: The actress said no to making a cameo in “Freakier Friday” helmed by Nisha Ganatra. Foster starred in the original “Freaky Friday” film, which was later remade with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003.

Foster told Variety that she is looking to return to directing soon herself, provided she can find financing. “I do prefer directing [to acting],” she said, “but it’s hard to get things off the ground. I have to work on the material for so long in order to make it mine. I love the movies that I made, and they speak to my life. And for me, they feel like auteur films. If I can’t do it that way, I don’t really want to do it.”

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