Jodie Foster Finds the 'Sweet Spot' Between 'Depth' and Entertainment

The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott

We’re in the middle of a Jodie Foster renaissance. The two-time Oscar winner is not only starring in one of the hottest limited series on TV right now, HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, but also picked up yet another Oscar nomination for her performance in Netflix’s Nyad. For True Detective, Foster responded to the balance between drama and horror, which she says is partly due to the landscape of where it’s set: Alaska. “That primitive connection with nature and 80 percent of the population is Inuit. You can’t not have the spiritual world. That’s so much a part of their life.” All of those factors make Alaska “fantastic [for storytelling],” Foster told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. And part of the reason why Foster was so excited for True Detective is because mainstream film distributors have “abandoned storytelling” for “franchise films or Marvel movies.” But now, because of this shift, that complex storytelling is available on streaming. “We have these wonderful limited series and long, episodic things, and now people are finally discovering that they can see their films that way too.”

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