The young couple playfully argue over whether to wait and appease his family by having a more traditional wedding and what shade of off-white their wedding invitations should be, cream or vanilla. In Neil Jordan’s (“The Crying Game,” “Interview with the Vampire”) latest film Academy-Award winning actress Jodie Foster straps on the gun and takes up the iconic role of urban waste disposer.įoster plays radio personality Erica Bain who is an investigative journalist for a nationally syndicated radio show that records the sounds of the “safest, big city.”Įrica is engaged to David (Naveen Andrews) who she lives with in a typical New York apartment just outside of Central Park as the two plan for their upcoming wedding.
At first, they don't think a woman would commit those acts.Ever since Charles Bronson brandished his magnum and became a one-man vengeance machine in the 1974 film “Death Wish” the revenge-killer has become one of the most recognized characters in Hollywood movies. It is that rage that confounds detectives who are trying to piece together the crimes. By playing Bain, she could feel the power of a woman accessing her own rage - instead of turning it inward.
It kind of taps into this very true, very authentic, very human, but also very shameful side of us."įoster says that she enjoys the creative process, which allows her to assume roles and emotions she doesn't explore in her everyday life. "It makes you cheer in places that you wished you hadn't. "As an audience member, you're asked to progress on this journey. In an interview with NPR's Melissa Block, Foster discusses her role and what it means to play a sympathetic dark character, blurring the ethical lines by meting out her own form of justice.įoster says that the film genre creates an almost primal experience. Bain's response: She gets a 9 millimeter handgun and takes the law into her own hands, mowing down predators all around the city. In her new movie, The Brave One, Jodie Foster plays a character with an unlikely dual role: a public radio host and a vigilante.įoster's character, Erica Bain, is a New York radio host who creates intimate sound essays about the city that she loves - a city that she says is "disappearing before her eyes." Bain's fiance is killed when they are brutally attacked while walking their dog.
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