Jodie Foster, who says his first French -speaking main role in A private life She has a connection with her late mother, Evelyn Ella Almond.
During an interview with PeopleShe shares: “I’m always finding my mother’s fragments in everything I do.”
At an early age The silence of the lambs Star remembers that his mother had “fantasies about Europe”, so she enrolled the actress in a French school.
“She had this great idea that she would leave and work in France and I would make French films,” reveals the 62 -year -old woman, and adds that she always liked different languages.
Jodie also shares when he saw French films with her mother: “She told me:” Tell me about the plot. “And then he would have to tell him what happened.
Returning to the current era, Jodie says that her character’s psychiatrist Lilian Steiner in A private life He has similarities with his mother.
“My mother, when she went to France, became someone new. He walked through the streets, and she went to meters, and went to the flea market. And her life had all this new, she was a completely new character.”
She continues: “Like Lilian, who leaves everything behind to join some fantasy he has of what would be a French person.”
“What is the movie, is Paris as seen in the old days, and drinks small cups of coffee and his apartment. That looked a lot like my mother,” says Jodie.
A private life It will arrive at theaters on November 26.
