Screen Saviour

From child star to Oscar-winning heroine and lauded director, JODIE FOSTER has navigated the perils of fame for more than five decades while remaining loyal to her family, supportive to her friends and true to her heartfelt principles. She talks work/life balance and Black Mirror with ERICA WAGNER.

- Erica Wagner

And then here she is, walking purposefully towards our table at the back of the cafe. It’s a Sunday morning in west London, the place is crowded with people eating avocado on toast, and outside the rain is pouring, so Jodie Foster’s ash-blond bob is dripping, her jumper’s wet and her trainers, too. She’s grinning, pushing her hair back from her forehead, her bright-blue gaze intent and open and so strangely familiar. Later, I marvel at the intimacy she conjures within a moment of meeting me, and reflect that, of course, she’s incredibly good at this, too, the performance of our interview, a brilliant woman who approaches everything she does with the keen intellect that has distinguished her whole remarkable career.