Jodie Foster Speaks Out on Current State of Gun Control: ‘We Are At a Dire Place in History’
The actress was outspoken about the need for sensible gun control upon the release of "The Brave One." A decade later, she tells IndieWire her stance hasn’t changed. Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock Oscar-winning actress and four-time director Jodie Foster doesn’t consider herself a political person. “I have a thousand opinions, and I certainly give money and do a lot of things behind the scenes,” she said in a recent interview with IndieWire, “but it’s not my personality to believe that celebrities have the expertise to try to influence other people’s ideas or their feelings, politically.” However, she has a keen understanding of how the undertones of some of her features often fuel inherently political discussions. More than a decade after her role in “The Brave One” lead her to speak out about gun control , the topic remains at the forefront of America’s culture wars, and Foster is still advocating for the kind of legislation she touted back in 2007. Now promoting her starring role in “ Hotel Artemis ,” Foster took the occasion to return to the hot button issue. Read More: Jodie Foster and Jason Bateman Reveal Directing Secrets: How They Trick Fellow Actors Into Being Better “The institution that’s probably made the most change in terms of gun violence is The Brady [Campaign],” she said, referring to the organization named for James Brady, the White House press secretary shot and paralyzed during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan assassination in 1981. (Notably, the convicted shooter John Hinckley, Jr. […]
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