“I’m not feeling well today, I’ll come at 10.30am” Jodie Foster is fed up with young people at work

“I’m not feeling well today, I’ll come at 10.30am” Jodie Foster is fed up with young people at work

They start the working day later when they don’t feel well, send emails full of spelling errors and don’t proofread… Generation Z would be more attentive to their well-being at work, and this annoys Jodie Allevare. The American actress spoke about it in a recent interview with The Guardian, and she didn’t mince her words.

We discovered her at the cinema when she was just born 14 years In Taxi driver, the Martin Scorsese film released in 1976. Her career began in childhood, so Jodie Foster knows what it’s like to do this job at a young age. However, the American star confided while observing a gulf between today’s young actors and his generation.

A lazier generation?

In an interview given to Caretaker on January 6, the actress in full promotion of the series True detective criticized the alleged lack of rigor in work of this generation born between 1997 and 2010. “They are really annoying, especially at work”, he said bluntly. By way of argument, the actress cited examples of exchanges she would have with young actors, as she herself describes followers of self-medication AND grammatical errors :

“For example, they will say: ‘no, I don’t feel well today, I’ll come at 10:30. Another example: via email, I tell him their messages are full of errors and they were never read again. To which they reply: “Why would I do that, isn’t that a bit restrictive?”’»

“There are other ways to be a woman”: Jodie Foster’s admiration for queer youth

Despite her reservations towards her young colleagues, Jodie Foster expressed her admiration for a generation participating in the renewal gender norms and break the chains of femininity. Quoting 20-year-old star Bella Ramsey, seen in game of Thrones AND The last of uswho he met in December at an event in Hollywood.


“(The organizers) are very proud of themselves because they brought all the ethnicities together and I say:” Yes, but all the participants are still wearing heels and eyelashes“. There are other ways to be a woman, and it’s really important for people to see that. And Bella, who gave the best speech of hers, wore the most beautiful dress, beautifully made, with the parting down the center of her and without makeup“.

“I’m not feeling well today, I’ll come at 10.30am” Jodie Foster is fed up with young people at work
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in The Last of Us // Source: HBO

Jodie Foster’s criticism goes beyond simple criticism. In this interview, she also said that she liked helping young actors by serving as she did mentor :

“They need to learn to relax, not to think too much, to find something that suits them. I can help them find it, which is much more fun than being, with all the pressure that entails, the hero of the story.”


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