Directing a current Black Mirror film gives Jodie Foster the chance to inspect back at her own upbringing. The Hollywood titan talks to Tim AdamsLast week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror,his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the current series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter and keep her secure from the world. The Netflix people suggested they tried the script out on the two-time Oscar-winning actor.
Brooker has had considerable global success with Black Mirror but still, the thought of working with Foster, and “an actual icon”,made him arrive over, he says, or “all British and starstruck”. He turned to his co-showrunner for the series,Annabel Jones. “We were like: ‘You’re kidding, right? You are going to try Jodie bloody Foster? Yeah right, and of course you are.’”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk