Wes Anderson‘s distinct flair for cinema has garnered top Hollywood talent from the likes of Bill Murray, Angelica Huston, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, and more. However, there’s one actor he hasn’t been able to bring into his retro-pastel world: the great Jodie Foster.
When asked by Collider if there was someone he hasn’t worked with that he wants to, Anderson replied, “I had so many movies that I tried to get Jodie Foster to be in.”
The prolific director admitted that he used to ask the two-time Oscar winner to be in “every movie,” adding, “I think I did it three movies in a row, maybe four.” Anderson said he also met Foster and thinks “she’s just great,” saying her directorial debut, Little Man Tate. In the film, Foster plays Dede Tate, the mother of seven-year-old son, Fred, a child prodigy. “She has this real sparkle. She has a lightness in it,” said Anderson of her performance. “It’s just a different kind of character.”
While the filmmaker said he “still would like to get Jodie Foster,” he figured that “after asking few times, I thought maybe I’m not.”
“I think sometimes somebody has an idea of the kind of work they want to do at that time in his or her life, and we weren’t right,” he continued. “She’s pretty amazing, Jodie Foster.”
Last month, Foster attended the Cannes Film Festival for the French film Vie Privée, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. A review by Variety praised the film as being”deliciously overripe” and having an “almost campy quality” that’s “expertly balanced by the intense focus of Foster’s performance.”
Elsewhere at Cannes was Anderson, who was also in France for his movie The Phoenician Scheme. Rolling Stone called the offering both a “continuation of Anderson’s highly imitable, endlessly meme-able strain of filmmaking” and “an expansion of his thematic preoccupations,” that finds “Wes in a somewhat pensive mood.”
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