K.J. Yossman Jodie Foster opened up – in French – about her risk-taking, achievements and perceived failures during an intimate Q&A during the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
And to the audience’s delight, the American-born, bilingual actress conducted the entire hour-long interview in the festival’s native language.The publicity-shy star, who got her first acting job at the tender age of three, revealed she had twice defied her mother during her glittering career: the first time to go to Yale, where she majored in African-American literature, and the second to move into directing, shortly after winning a Best Actress Oscar for 1988 film “The Accused.”“I studied at Yale for 5 years,” she recalled. “Everyone was telling me ‘your career.
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