She’s “out of pocket” for this remark.
Jodie Foster has jokingly blasted “annoying” Gen Z for their work ethic in a new interview with The Guardian.
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace,” Foster quipped.
“They’re like: ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or 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?’”
The star of HBO’s upcoming “True Detective: Night Country” is all too familiar with Gen Z — she has two sons in their 20s, whom she shares with her ex, Cydney Bernard.
Foster, now married to photographer Alexandra Hedison, recalled how confused her “feminist,” sports-averse sons, Kit, 21, and Charles, 25, became when figuring out “what it was to be a boy.”
“And there was a moment with my older one when he was in high school, when, because he was raised by two women – three women – it was like he was trying to figure out what it was to be a boy,” she remembered. “And he watched television and came to the conclusion, ‘Oh, I just need to be an asshole. I understand! I need to be shitty to women, and act like I’m a f–ker..'”
She exclaimed: “And I was like, no! That’s not what it is to be a man! That’s what our culture has been selling you for all this time.”
But Foster believes she can help young people in the industry who, in her opinion, “need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs.”
She added: “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 divulged that she attempted to reach out to 20-year-old Bella Ramsey, who recently starred in “The Last of Us.”
“I do a lot of reaching out to young actresses,” Foster said. “I’m compelled. Because it was hard growing up.”
Foster even arranged for the young star to introduce her at the Elle magazine Women in Hollywood celebration.
The organizers, Foster noted, were “very proud of themselves because they’ve got every ethnicity,” however “The Silence of the Lambs” star sill bemoaned that “all the attendees are still wearing heels and eyelashes.”
However, Foster noted that Ramsey — who is non-binary — is a “vector of authenticity.”
“Bella, who gave the best speech, was wearing the most perfect suit, beautifully tailored, and a middle parting and no makeup,” she said.
When Foster was an up-and-coming starlet, she said she never could have worn what Ramsey did “because we weren’t free.”
“Because we didn’t have freedom. And hopefully that’s what the vector of authenticity that’s happening offers – the possibility of real freedom,” she said.
“We had other things that were good. And I would say: I did the best I could for my generation. I was very busy understanding where I fitted in and where I wanted to be in terms of feminism. But my lens wasn’t wide enough. I lived in an incredibly segregated world.”
