Jodie Foster says early success meant she escaped sexual abuse in Hollywood

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"I've really had to examine that, like, how did I get saved? she told NPR's Fresh Air. There were microaggressions, of course. Anybody who's in the workplace has had misogynist microaggressions. That's just a part of being a woman, right? But what kept me from having those bad experiences, those terrible experiences? The critical difference, Foster said, was that she had a certain amount of professional authority unusually early which placed her outside the category of vulnerable actors."

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