I think it's shameful that Jodie plays a straight white female who shoots up the town and makes money premeditating it. All the while she is repulsed by men, firearms and the protection of personal property. 

I'll bet that her bodyguard is male and is packing heat ... maybe he's an android.

So she's criticizing and denigrating the people who are paying her money. 

Her views on gun possession, while unrealistic, seem to be sincerely held.  I'd be more impressed with these views if she hadn't just made a movie that involved a gun, thereby in a way glorifying guns (at least, presumably that's how she and like-minded people would view a gun being featured in a movie), but more to the point, enriching herself by that object.

We are once again treated to a bromide from a Hollywood sophisticate on how Americans are just so very uncouth and rude and, well, just so...uh...RURAL, ok I've said it.  People like Foster see regular folk as just so many hayseeds who drive pick-ups (the number one selling American vehicle sold in these here United States), eat pork and cheer at football games (it's just so violent doncha know?)  I have lived with weapons in my home for over 30 years and to date I've only had to kill, let me see....well, none!!  And the worse part of this debate is that people like Jodie Foster will continue to make movies for unclean and slovenly folk (like me) and make untold millions in the process.  If she were so clean and pure she would only make small artsy fartsy films that only the brie eating fakes and sopishicated Europeans would watch.  Well, it's been a real slice of Heaven but I've got to go and watch "The Incredibles"...one of my favorite movies.

Hounddog?  What's next? Think about 20 years down the road.  People that produce movies like Houndog are Godless, by choice!  They will keep going down this same road, producing what they believe to be top shelf, 'sophisticated' movies, each time going a little bit further until nothing is off limits.  These are sick people.  

“I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being.”

That's right, Jodie. We gotta keep the guns out of the hands of thinking, feeling human beings. It's the unfeeling non-thinking people who can have the guns (and would too, in leaps and bounds, if left wing anti-2nd ammendment gun grabbers like you get their way).

And what asinine comments she makes about her own movies. It's always interesting when a liberal actor/actress plays a traditional, hard-working, self-reliant individual with conservative values. They find a way to distance themselves from their own material in order to stay politically correct (in this case by attacking her own paying audience) but yet they sure don't mind making $$$$$$$$$$$$ up the wazoo for the same movie.

I may be the only one who thinks Jodie Foster is a horrible actress. She over-acts most scenes making it impossible for me to 'get into' her character.

And sophisticated movies? Anyone remember her alien film "Communion?'

Pure trash.

Ahh, it's a beautiful morning here at NB.

<>I have really enjoyed Jodie Foster and her movies. Why the heck she
makes these kind of "John Lennonesqe" statements is beyone me. She is
educated and smart, but simply naiive? Or is she trying to affect
change in our society? Yes, in a perfect world, no one should have
guns. But, in reality, we must retain the right to defend ourselves
against people or governments who are going to have guns and use them
offensively (second amendment). If she believes her statements, she
simply should have passed on her role in this new movie, which promotes
illegal "payback" using of all things, guns. Her personal belief
about gun control has been completely muted by her disengenuous
profiteering from this movie. <> If she looked at the statistics on
countries where people can carry guns, she would find that there is
less crime in the US than in other countries with laws that restrict
gun ownership.

But, its ok for Darling Jodie to make money
off of this topic. Hey, this movie sounds like a cool and exciting
remake to me. Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood made several movies with
this theme in the 70's. I never heard those actors whining about "no
guns". Their message wasn't about gun control, it was about the lack of
protection in our lawless society.

Maybe she thinks
that we should go up to a terrorist with a dirty bomb and give em a
hug? Or, when attacked by a home invasion in one's own home, put out
some milk and cookies and try to convince the bad guys not to rape your
children and then saw your head off?

Jodie has joined the Clooney and Robbins crowd. She dampens the movie business. They all have.

Hollywood really is in suicide mode ...

If Foster found that the viewing audience wouldn't get the real point she and the director were trying to make, then why make the movie?  At least, why have her character brandishing a gun at all?  Why not just have her character spend the entire movie following around the bad guys as she treid to talk them out of everything.

As usual, hers and Hollywood's definition of sophisticated is completely warped.  Sophistication, when it comes to guns, is someone who has taken gun safety and firing courses, has properly and legally purchased the gun, safely and responsibly stores the gun, and uses said gun responsibly when need be. Contrary to what Ms. Foster believes, this DOES take a thinking, feeling, breathing human being ...  From the military, to Homeland Security, to civil servants, right down to private citizens of these United States ...

Ms. Foster, it IS the criminals in this country who ARE NOT thinking, feeling, breathing human being(s) ... What you are suggesting is that only they would be armed in our society.  At that point, complete and total anarchy would rule this country.

Finally, I know how we take on the celebrities on this site.  And rightfully so.  As they seem to believe simply because they have easy access to cameras that they are the voice(s) of reason and logic in this society.  This is a prime example, in her own interview words, of Hollywood's hypocrisy and ineptitude.  They put out a product that is either faulty, or they really don't stand behind it.

For the record, over the years I have thought of Ms. Foster as one of the few TRUE actresses in a Hollywood that seems to hoist up actresses on the basis of popularity, celebrity, and face-T-&-A factor ... and less on talent. I am very disappointed in Ms. Foster's, not only words, but her hypocrisy and complete nonsensical diatribe concerning not only one of the more basic freedoms in this country, but an unavoidable REALITY of life on planet Earth ...

I will probably see the movie on cable or DVD when it is available, but my feel for the story/movie/character has been tainted ...

If you ask me, Ms. Foster has managed to possibly sabotage what may have been another strong and assertive performance for a female.

It's too bad that today's Hollywood doesn't seem to know when the script pages end.  You don't see GM, Ford, GE, Microsoft employees spouting negatives to the press about their products.

....."don't do as I do, do as I say" liberal. This is a recording.

Ms. Foster states the following; 

"Americans are by nature filled with rage-slash-fear. And guns are a huge part of our culture. I know I'm crazy because I'm only supposed to say that in Europe."

I don't know how I missed this in my first read through, but now, Ms Foster, in a sophisticated manner, tells us that  "Americans are by nature filled with rage-fear".  That's a stunning fact I did not know before.  And then she goes on to state that she knows she is crazy because she is only supposed to say that in Europe.  Well, she did take the first step and admitted she is crazy, and then I wonder who is writing/scripting for her because she also admits she is only supposed to say that in Europe.    

Too bad Charles Bronson has passed away.  I think it's about time for some cable network to break out the Charles Bronson movie marathon with "Deathwish" and the following sequels.  I wonder if Hollywood decides to do a remake of that movie, if Foster would be interested in starring or promoting it?

(I am clearly one of those ignorant and unsophisticated people that she detests so much.)

When my father retired from the military and moved to Florida in '72, crime in Ocala was pretty rare. As time passed, the fequency of violent crimes increased. I began to worry about his safety on the street. He kept a S&W .357 at the house but had nothing to carry. I bought him a little AMT .380 backup and he obtained the carry permit.

A few of years later, he was down to 120 pounds battling cancer for the 3rd time and was forced through circumstance, to obtain cash from an ATM. It was around 10PM, and he chose the safest looking one he could find. After geting the cash, a large man stepped from one of the shadows and asked for "some of that money". He reached into his pocket and without drawing his weapon, suggested that the fellow get a job if he wanted money. The guy virtually disappeared at that point.

How does Jodie think that would have turned out had my father not been armed? It is crystalline clear to me that she could not possibly care less. Not only for my fathers fate, but for anyone else out there that finds the need to protect themselves or their loved ones from those that would do them harm. Does she think that she is one of those caring, thinking folks? Clearly she is not. Her caring ceases at her own interests. Appparently it's quite easy for her to condemn some unknown to death when she never sees their face or hears their story.

I wish we could all live in that magical world of hers that has no violence in it. Where the need to protect oneself from unreasonable people never arises. Unfortunately, this world exists only in her tiny little lonely atrophied brain cell.

Living in the wilderness of Alaska, I employ firearms to protect myself, wife and dogs from a few unreasonable animals as well as human tresspassers from time to time. (Moose are not known for their reasoning abilities...much like the drug addicted.) Maybe she can suggest an alternative for me. A bow and arrows perhaps? Maybe some rocks?

And uh...if I were as anti-gun as she appears to be, I would never ever appear in a flick that glorified guns in any way shape or form. What is her bottom line? Money... She was offered money to dump her principles and she did so. Yakkin' about how bad guns are afterwards does nothing to hide her complete lack of ethics. Happy Trails...

I knew there was a reason I've avoided her movies for years. Her smugness comes across on the screen.   

Ms. Foster was forced to do this movie by the government who would have thrown her into a gulag and taken her child from her for a re education camp..........

Nope Jodie, you saw the script........had no problems in other movies in your career where people got shot........and have made millions from it all.

Give the money back Jodie or shut up.

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The movie is meant as a critique of Americans and their tendency for vengeful violence.   The War on Terror is an example where the U.S. is just roaming the globe, like an out of control Dirty Hairy, shooting up anyone we deem 'the bad guy's.  Only the sophisticated and enlightened among us can see the folly of our actions.

LMAO, could the magazine here ever be more wrong with its caption on the cover?

"Tough, sexy, smart, classy, she's the antidote to everything you hate about hollywood."

I swear these people are absolutely clueless.

With the interview you just printed she is exactly EVERYTHING we hate about Hollywood. Antidote? LMAO, be like giving someone cyanide as the antidote to a cobra bite.

Just yet another Hollywood actor/actress I have lost all respect for.

I'm just glad that The Duke left us when he did. Otherwise, he would have died of a broken heart.

Apparently there's no problem with rearing one's children without a father. I wonder which does more damage to one's children: possessing a gun for protection or depriving children of a two-parent family. Foster is obviously bright but even her intelligence can supplant the man-hating philosophy given her by her mother. . . and one must assume that same righteousness is being passed on to her children. So sad.