Superhero films are only “a phase,” according to Jodie Foster, who stated as much in a recent interview with Elle magazine. She feels that the trend has lasted a little too long. The actor, who is presently receiving Oscar buzz for her Netflix supporting role in “Nyad” and who will be starring in HBO’s “True Detective” Season 4 in the upcoming year, admitted that while she enjoys some superhero films, neither of them have truly changed her life.
“It’s a phase”. Foster commented, “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. 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.”
The two-time Oscar winner’s livelihood has recently been altered by the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” an A24 family drama that took home seven Academy Awards from eleven nominations and made over $100 million globally. Early this year, the movie won the Best Picture Oscar. “The Daniels. They made my favorite movie perhaps of all time, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Foster revealed to Elle magazine. “That’s the film that I will return to over and over again whenever I feel depressed or sad.”
She remarked, “I first saw it with one of my sons, and we held hands and pinched each other and cried for 45 minutes afterward. And then I saw it with my other son a week later, and it just opened a portal of connection and understanding and hope. He started telling me everything from his high school that he’d never told me, and we were walking in the rain crying and opening up. And I was like, ‘This is what film can do.’”
Although Foster hasn’t been in a superhero film, Annette Bening, who co-starred with her on “Nyad,” played a significant part in Marvel’s “Captain Marvel” in 2019. Netflix is now offering its water-based drama, “Nyad,” for streaming. HBO will premiere “True Detective” Season 4 on January 14, 2024.