"Foster said that she would never have chosen to be an actor, I don't have the personality of an actor. I'm not somebody that wants to dance on a table and, you know, sing songs for people. She added: It's actually just a cruel job that was chosen for me as a young person that I don't remember starting. Foster's first booking was at age three, on a commercial for the sunscreen lotion Coppertone."
"I feel like, wait, where are their parents? And why is nobody telling them that they should stop doing so many movies or maybe not be so drunk on the red carpet? I want to take care of them because I know how dangerous it is. I don't know why anyone would want to be an actor now, if they knew that in order to be excellent they would have to contend with being robbed of their life in a way."
Jodie Foster views child acting as hazardous and regrets being pushed into the profession at a very young age. Her first booking occurred at age three on a Coppertone commercial after accompanying her elder brother to an audition. She went on to work in adverts, sitcoms and films, including Tom Sawyer and Taxi Driver at age 12. Foster reaches out to contemporary young actors, questions parental oversight and the culture of red-carpet excess, and warns that excellence in acting can come at the cost of having one’s life diminished without strict separation between private and public life.
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