GERMANY: Jodie Foster welcomes criticism on the cabin crew villains in her flight flick

Record ID: 1475876

  • Title: GERMANY: Jodie Foster welcomes criticism on the cabin crew villains in her flight flick
  • Date: 15th October 2005
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (FILE - DECEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) JODIE FOSTER LEAVING APARTMENT BUILDING IN BERLIN'S WILMERSDORF DISTRICT DURING SHOOTING OF "FLIGHTPLAN" FOSTER SPEAKING TO PEOPLE ON SET FOSTER WALKING INTO BUILDING AGAIN CAMERA CRANE GOING UP OUTSIDE BUILDING, PAN TO FOSTER STANDING IN STREET
  • Embargoed: 5th March 2006 00:30
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVAEOQ4K6FUX8TKIJGHNRF85040J
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  • Story Text: Hollywood star Jodie Foster has said ahead of the Germany premiere of her latest movie "Flightplan" in Berlin on Wednesday (October 12) that the portrayal of flight attendants in the film "really could not be changed."
    Labor unions representing most of America's 90,000 flight attendants urged their members to boycott the new Jodie Foster film that portrays a flight attendant and a U.S. air marshal as "terrorists." They said casting cabin crew members as villains in the movie "Flightplan" was irresponsible in light of heightened security concerns since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, in which suicide hijackers used airliners as guided missiles.
    The Walt Disney Co. film, which was the No. 1 release at the North American box office in September, stars Foster as an airline passenger who awakens from an in-flight nap to find her young daughter missing. It turns out that one of the flight attendants aboard is involved in a terrorist plot hatched by the plane's air marshal. "I like it that people criticise the movie, that they have something to say and that they contribute," Foster told Reuters Television in an interview in Berlin on Wednesday. "I think that's good for a film, it's good for us to hear that and to understand that but in this case, you know, it's not a technical movie. It's really a genre film, it's a thriller, so there is a reason in the film that none of the flight attendants have ever seen the child." "And that probably sounds insensitive but that's the conceit of the movie and we really couldn't change that," Foster said.
    A union statement issued in September also complained that other flight attendants in the film are shown as being "rude, unhelpful and uncaring." "This depiction of flight attendants is an outrage," said Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) International President Patricia Friend. "Flight attendants continue to be the first line of defense on an aircraft and put their lives on the line day after day for the safety of passengers."
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