GERMANY: Jodie Foster works the red carpet at the Berlin premiere of "The Brave One."

Record ID: 219864

  • Title: GERMANY: Jodie Foster works the red carpet at the Berlin premiere of "The Brave One."
  • Date: 20th September 2007
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 13, 2007) (REUTERS) VARIOUS SHOTS OF JODIE FOSTER WALKING DOWN RED CARPET PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING SNAPSHOTS JODIE FOSTER POSING (WEARING SHORT DARK EVENING DRESS) / NEIL JORDAN ON THE RIGHT IN JACKET) NEIL JORDAN SPEAKING TO THE MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEIL JORDAN, DIRECTOR "She is the reason I did this specific story. I couldn't imagine anyone else in having this role and being courageous and brave enough in to go the strange and troubling places the character goes. Thank you very much, thank you." (SOUNDBITE) (English) JODIE FOSTER, ACTRESS "I really don't have much of a temper. Um, I, bad drivers drive me crazy. Bad drivers. I call myself a good driver." (SOUNDBITE) (English) JODIE FOSTER, ACTRESS "Yes, I think New York is a real character in the film and it is wonderful to see how New York has evolved. I mean we are talking about a New York post 9/11 that is beautiful, there is a lot of money in the city and there is police men everywhere. It is very safe. And yet there is this fear that lives underneath the surface everywhere there. Some of it is unknown, some of it has a bases in some reality but mostly it is a fear that his been there long before 9/11." FANS HOLDING OUT PAPER FOR AUTOGRAPHS JODIE FOSTER GIVING AUTOGRAPH VARIOUS SHOTS OF JODIE FOSTER POSING ON RED CARPET PANNING SHOT OF JODIE FOSTER'S OUTFIT SHOT OF THE CINE STAR IMAX THEATER IN POTSDAMER PLATZ, BERLIN
  • Embargoed: 5th October 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVABNS8H1YC9VUDD4QTPSJBK5LDV
  • Story Text: Academy Award winner Jodie Foster Jodie Foster talks about life in New York City after 9/11 while promoting her latest film, "The Brave One."
    Fans crowded around Potsdamer Platz on Thursday (September 13) to catch a glimpse of the star who plays a stone-cold vengeance killer.
    Foster portrays Erica Bain, a New York City radio personality who goes on a killing spree after her fiancee is murdered in a Central Park attack. The movie explores whether people, when pushed beyond their limits, will turn the other cheek or hit back.
    "Something terrible happens to her and her boyfriend which changes her life and turns her into a different person then she could of imagined. It sort of brings her through the depth of her darkness in some ways and becomes a stranger to herself," said Foster.
    Director Neil Jordan, whose hits include 1992's "The Crying Game," called Foster one of most versatile actresses and the perfect fit for the role. "She is the reason I did this specific story. I couldn't imagine anyone else in having this role and being courageous and brave enough to go the strange and troubling places the character goes," said Jordan.
    Foster, 44, won her first Academy Award playing a rape victim in 1988's "The Accused." Three years later her turn as an FBI agent on the trail of serial killer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs"
    earned her a second Oscar. She has also been in other thrillers like "Panic Room" and "Flightplan."
    "The Brave One" opens across Germany on September 27.
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