“It’s good that people are waking up” in France, says actress Jodie Foster

“It’s good that people are waking up”, greets American actress Jodie Foster on Tuesday February 13 on France Inter, while the French cinema sector has been caught up in cases of sexist and sexual violence for several months. Jodie Foster believes that “this moment in France, you are having quite a MeToo moment”. She also regrets a certain “delay of the French” on this topic. “Awake!”says Jodie Foster.

More than six years after the start of the MeToo movement, the American actress considers that the situation on the sets “has improved for everyone”, and not only “in the cinema” but also “in other industries, because people talk”. Faced with the liberation of speech, Jodie Foster is satisfied to see the growth of a new “generation, different”.

She remembers in fact that when she “When I was young, women felt like they didn’t have the right to say no to anything”. From a personal point of view, she says “very conscious” of the protection she received from her “mother, producers and directors who [la] saw them as their daughter”. “At 12-13 years old, I had a certain power in the industry and maybe that protected me”she believes.