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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2009
WEATHER FORECAST
Mishaps give Foster lead role
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Some cinematic karma involving mishaps to a couple of actors from Down Under brought Jodie Foster and director David Finchertogether in the panic room.
Nicole Kidman's recurring knee injury early last year left Fincher without his lead actress on the thriller Panic Room three weeks into shooting.
A few months earlier, Foster's latest directing effort, the Depression-era circus tale Flora Plum, was shelved after star Russell Crowe injured his shoulder while training for the film.
With the deadline approaching for a potential actors strike, Fincher needed a name actress fast to keep his production from being shut down. Twotime Academy Award winner Foster unexpectedly happened to be out of work.
Within weeks, Panic Room resumed shooting with Foster in the lead.
"I kind of like jumping into films. I like being on the spur of the moment," Foster said. "I also knew that unless they found somebody kind of my stature in the next two weeks, the film was going to be canned because there might be an actors strike. I really liked the script, and it was important for me to do that for David Fincher."
Co-starring Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto, Panic Room follows a mother and daughter who take refuge from burglars in a fortress-like sanctum inside their Manhattan brownstone.
The character mutated somewhat after Foster signed on. Initially, the newly divorced mother had been envisioned as a bit more helpless, Fincher said.
"I think Jodie Foster can do anything except maybe play helpless." Fincher said. "I think she's worked without exception in the 35 years of her career to bring characters to life who are smart and thoughtful and capable and curious. Kind of all these good qualities, yet ravaged by certain realities. She's not willing to play the unrealistic hero who has no faults."
Panic Room is the first film in more than two years for Foster, 39, who has scaled back on acting because of directing projects and commitments to her two sons, the youngest born last September. Foster has starred in two films since 1994.
Foster decided against doing Hannibal, the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, which had brought her second best-actress Oscar. Her first best-actress Oscar was for The Accused. At the time, she was busy preparing to direct Flora Plum, but she also was uncomfortable with how author Thomas Harris had developed her character, Clarice Starling, in Hannibal.
"It's not the same character," Foster said. "Thomas Harris just went to a different place with this one."
Besides Panic Room, Foster has a supporting role as a nun in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, a teen drama opening in limited release in June. She also is a producer on the film, one of the last coming from her production company, Egg Pictures.
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