Superhero movies are a ‘phase’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Jodie Foster

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Add Jodie Foster to the list of celebrities who aren’t the biggest fans of superhero movies.

In an interview with someone deer In the December/January issue of Women in Hollywood, the Oscar-winning actress explained that she feels Marvel and DC films are a “phase.”

“It’s a phase that’s been going on for a very long time for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen many different phases,” she told the publication. “Hopefully people will get sick of it soon. The good ones – like Iron Man, Black Panther, The Matrix – I admire these films, and I am immersed in their entertainment.

She continued: “But that is not why I became an actress. These films do not change my life. Hopefully there will be room for everything else.”

the True Detective The star isn’t the first person in Hollywood to speak out against superhero movies. Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and John Woo have all made comments over the years about how movies are not true cinema.

Scorsese received a lot of backlash for his comments comparing superhero films to theme parks. “It is not the cinema of human beings trying to transfer their emotional and psychological experiences to another human being,” he said. empire In 2019.

On the other hand, Christopher Nolan recently expressed his feeling that franchises were essential to a “healthy” Hollywood because they paid for other types of films to be produced and distributed.

Elsewhere in the profile, Foster – who is currently receiving Oscar buzz for her supporting role in… Naiad vs. Annette Bening – She told the magazine that she would love to work with The Daniels one day because of it Everything everywhere at once It’s probably her favorite movie of all time.

She explained that the winner of the Best Picture award was a movie she watched over and over again whenever she felt depressed or sad, and how that helped her communicate with her two sons.

“I saw it for the first time with one of my sons, and we were holding hands and pinching each other and crying for 45 minutes afterward,” she said. “Then I saw it with my other son a week later, and it opened a gateway for me to connection and understanding and hope. He started telling me everything from his high school that he’d never told me, and we were walking in the rain crying and gaping. And I thought, ‘This is what a movie can do.'”