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Jodie Foster found her vulnerable side in Rebecca Zlotowski\u2019s A Private Life.<\/p>\n
In the movie \u2013 Jodie, 62, stars as Dr. Lilian Steiner, an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose patient dies under mysterious circumstances \u2013 and for the first time ever, the actress speaks in French in a leading role, which left her feeling less confident.<\/p>\n
She told The Hollywood Reporter: \u201cI have a different personality because I\u2019m not as confident. I have a much softer performance style as a French person. And it brings something to the character – that she\u2019s filled with anxiety, that she\u2019s not being listened to, is not being heard. And my voice is different; my voice in French is much higher than it is in English.\u201d<\/p>\n
And, Jodie loved working outside of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n
She explained: \u201cIt took me a long time to find the right project. I just really wanted to make a French movie. And this script is really good for me, [it\u2019s in] the French tradition where the goals are internal and kind of small, and yet there\u2019s so much cinema in it. And it has momentum, the momentum that we like as Americans: narrative momentum where things happen and there are twists.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always surprised and then amazed that I can have done this for so many years – almost 60 years – and I just keep discovering. I definitely want to work in France again. It feels like such an escape from myself, you know? It\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jodie also enjoyed how the film crossed a number of genres from sexy romantic comedy to amateur-sleuth adventure.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cIt\u2019s something we don\u2019t allow ourselves to do in the United States, where a film has to be a thriller, or it has to be a comedy, or it has to be a small, personal film. But here [in France], the directors are king, so they can do whatever they want as long as they do it under the budget they\u2019ve been given.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.movies.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jodie Foster found her vulnerable side in Rebecca Zlotowski\u2019s A Private Life. In the movie \u2013 Jodie, 62, stars as Dr. Lilian Steiner, an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose patient dies under mysterious circumstances \u2013 and for the first time ever, the actress speaks in French in a leading role, which left her feeling less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[363421,363423,34395,316971,363422,363419,363420],"class_list":["post-2000296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-french-movie","tag-french-person","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-jodie-foster","tag-lilian-steiner","tag-mysterious-circumstances","tag-vulnerable-side"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jodie-Fosters-vulnerable-role.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}