Jodie Foster says she sometimes finds Gen Z “very annoying” but hopes she can help aspiring stars find their own way to “learn to relax”.

In an interview with The Guardian, the actress admitted that it is difficult for her to understand the attitude to work, News.ro notes.

“They’re really annoying, especially at work,” Foster joked. “They say, ‘No, I’m not feeling well today, I’ll come in at 10:30 in the morning.’ spell-checked? And they say, “Why would I do that, isn’t that a limitation?”

You could say that Foster has earned the right to say things the way she sees them. By the time she was nominated for an Oscar for playing a child sex victim in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver, at the age of 14, she had made more films than the director.

After making films for more than five decades, she said it was important to her to help young actresses navigate the often difficult waters she had already navigated.

When asked what she thinks young people in the industry need to hear, Foster said, “They need to learn to relax, how not to think about it so much, how to come up with something of their own. I get to help them find that, and that’s a lot more fun than being the main character in a story, despite all the pressure that comes with it.”

In an interview, she said she made a special effort to connect with Bella Ramsey, the 20-year-old non-binary actress who starred in The Last of Us and played young nobleman Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones. “.

At Foster’s request, the two met at Elle magazine’s Women in Hollywood gala in November. “I contacted Bella because we’ve never met and I said, ‘I want you to introduce me here,’ because it’s a great event about actors and people from film, but it’s also a very fashionable event. . That is, it is determined who represents us.”

Foster said the event’s organizers were “very proud that they included people of all ethnicities, and I think they did, but everyone still wears heels and eyelashes.”

She said Ramsey was a good example of an actor who appeared in a new “authenticity vector”: “Bella, who gave the best speech, wore the most perfect suit, perfectly tailored and no make-up.”

Foster shared how she also challenged common gender stereotypes in her own family.

Speaking about raising her children, who she had with ex-partner Sidney Bernard and now raises with her wife Alexandra Hedison, she said: “There was a moment with the oldest of them when he was in high school when, because he was being raised by two women – three women – it was like he was trying to figure out what it meant to be a boy.”

“And we were watching TV and he came to the conclusion, oh, I must be just a jerk. I understand. I need to be rude to women and act like a freak.’

“And I said: “No. This is not what it means to be a man! That’s what our culture has been selling us all this time.”