Jodie Foster is on the cover of the latest issue of PorterEdit, out now.
Here’s what the 55-year-old Contact actress had to say…
On how women are questioning past behaviors in the wake of #MeToo: “I don’t think there is a woman I know, who doesn’t look back on when they were 15, 16, 17 or 18, who doesn’t put their hand on their head and say: ‘Why did I do that? Why was I like that? Why wasn’t I confident? Why didn’t I say no?’”
On how having an industry-savvy mother may have protected her from Hollywood’s abusers: “The weird cauldron that made me – working from the time I was three years old, supporting my family by the time that I was seven, super-strong mom, over-confident personality, celebrity young enough that I learned to be stand-offish… I think there’s a whole bunch of reasons why I didn’t have the same path as someone who came to Hollywood at 22 with two cents in her pocket and just wanted more than anything else to be an actor; it’s just a different life.”
On celebrating Pride Month: “Every day is gay-pride day for me.”
On how she didn’t want her children to know she was famous: “I didn’t want them to know about my celebrity at all. I remember when my son was about four, he thought I was a construction worker.”
For more from Jodie, visit net-a-porter.com.
