Jodie Foster Is Enjoying Her 60s After Admitting To Struggling In Her 50s

In a chat with Greta Lee for Interview Magazine, Jodie Foster, who turned 61 recently, shared how her 50s were filled with different struggles. Thankfully, the actress is happier to be in her 60s, as she calls it the best shift of all. “I think it’s an age thing because I felt these huge shifts the day I turned 30 and the day I turned 60,” she said.

Foster broke into Hollywood as a child and getting older in the industry left her wondering if she “would do anything meaningful again” as the past decade was “that awkward phase where everybody who’s in their late 40s or 50s is very busy getting all plumped and shooting s— into their face.”

Foster has it figured out

Against her desires, Foster tried to compete with her old self, which left her dissatisfied; however, she is now back to work with a different attitude. “Something happened when I turned 60. I was like, ‘I figured it out. This is good.’” Foster told Lee, whom she cast in her 2016 film, Money Monster.

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Foster now finds joy in supporting other people and accepting that she has had her time in the spotlight. “Really enjoying supporting other people and saying to myself, ‘This is not my time. I had my time,” she added. “This is their time, and I get to participate in it by giving them whatever wisdom I have.’”

What is Foster up to?

Foster will appear in the upcoming season of the HBO series True Detective: Night Country; she also stars alongside Annette Benning in marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s biopic, Nyad, on Netflix. “It’s so much more satisfying to be a part of a team that’s doing something awesome than it is to be all on your own trying to jump up that hill and make something out of nothing,” Foster explained.

The two-time Oscar award-winning star also confessed to feeling relieved from playing lead roles lately “and the pressure I had being a leading lady? Gosh, it all disappears the minute you say, ‘No.’ It’s shocking how great that is.”