Jodie Foster Thought Robert De Niro Was ‘Really Uninteresting’ When They First Met on ‘Taxi Driver’: ‘I Remember Being Like, What Is Happening?’ but Then He Opened My Eyes to What Acting Could Be’ https://t.co/7wWhzJHXZD
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Foster praised streaming for giving storytellers a broader canvas to tell important stories such as the journey of Native Americans:
“I’m embracing this idea of there being these two opposite ends of the industry — one which is mainstream Hollywood, mainstream distributor films and more independent films on the other end … and then streaming, which has really taken up the mantle of narrative. You’re able to take up eight-hour stories or five-season stories where you can explore every angle in a way that you could never in a feature.”
Foster brought up Scorsese’s 2023 film “Killers of the Flower Moon” as an example of this, saying that “what we had was a very interesting movie about two guys who go back and forth and they talk to each other. I think everybody was excited that the Native story was going to be told. And what they found was like, ‘Wow, all the Native women are dead.’ What they said was, ‘Well, it’s a feature, we didn’t have time!’ But there was time. There was an eight-hour limited series that was not made, that could have been made, where if you really needed to explore all of that male toxic masculinity, you could have done that, but you could have had Episode 2 actually center the Native story.”
