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Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster are close to signing deals to star in Nim’s Island, a fantasy movie based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard. The story is about a young girl who is lost at sea with her scientist father and communicates electronically with a person she imagines to be a character from a book but is in fact a reclusive author. Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin (Little Manhattan) will direct for 20th Century Fox. Shooting starts this summer. Separately, Breslin has ... been cast as Kit Kittredge in Picturehouse and HBO Films’ American Girl movie, inspired by the popular line of dolls and accessories. Writer Ann Peacock (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) penned the script, and a director will be set shortly.
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Were this not Jodie Foster, it could be tempting to regard her entrance as a gimmick designed to give her a bit of Everywoman appeal. This is, after all, an actress so gifted that she earned her first paycheck at the age of 3, her first Oscar nomination at the age of 13, and two Academy Awards before she turned 30. Whether fame and wealth have altered Foster's essence is something only she can know. But the fact that she defies the classic diva template has fueled the public's fascination for decades. She exudes a grounding and intelligence that are impossible to fake. "I still feel like I'm almost over the hurdle," she says halfway through lunch, when I ask whether she finally feels entitled to her success.
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Jodie Foster got her start as a pig-tailed tyke of two in her first commercial for Coppertone suntan lotion. Her father, Lucius Foster, left the family when Jodie's mother was just a few months pregnant with her. With four children to raise, Brandy got her children into show business. Jodie's brother Buddy was a successful child actor, appearing as a regular in the television series Mayberry R.F.D., and Jodie's first acting role was a guest appearance on the show at the age of five. Other television appearances followed but at ten, Foster made the leap from the small to the big screen for the Disney flick Napoleon and Samantha (1972). At 13, she delivered a knockout performance as a child hooker in Taxi Driver that won her her first Oscar nomination.
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Jodie Foster has ripped into Robert Rodriguez's Sin City because she found the film offensive. While many critics raved about the director's adaptation of Frank Miller's comic book, Foster admits it's one of the most recent films she switched off after renting it on DVD. Foster rants, "That was so painfully cartoonish I was offended." And she admits that she doesn't enjoy watching films based around abduction and child molestation - as the mother of two young boys. She tells newspaper USA Today, "I don't know how you enjoy or laugh about a child abduction and molestation. What part of that sentence is funny?
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Foster made nearly fifty film and television appearances before she attended college. She began her career at age three as the Coppertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D.[1] In 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as "Jody Foster". She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain. Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), One Little Indian (1973), Freaky Friday (1976), and Candleshoe (1977). She ... co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series version of Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor's career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me."[7] She hosted Saturday Night Live at age fourteen, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven.
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According to the Times, Jodie and Cydney met in '93 on the set of "Sommersby." Since then, Jodie has given birth to two boys, Charles, 9, and Kit, 6. She has never revealed the identity of their father(s).
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