Jodie Foster Calls Superhero Movies a ‘Phase That’s Lasted a Little Too Long’ and ‘Hopefully People Will Be Sick of It Soon’: They ‘Don’t Change My Life’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jodie Foster said in a new interview with Elle magazine that superhero movies are just “a phase,” one that has gone on a bit too long for her liking.
The actor, who is currently earning Oscar buzz for her supporting role in Netflix’s “Nyad” and who is also headlining HBO’s “True Detective” Season 4 next year, said she’s a fan of some superhero films but none of them are life-changing to her. “It’s a phase.
It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases,” Foster said on the matter. “Hopefully people will be sick of it soon.
The good ones—like ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Matrix’—I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor.
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