Jodie Foster Is Sick of Male Film Makers Constantly Using Rape as Character Motivation
LatestAppearing at Variety and Kering’s Women in Motion talk at the Cannes Film Festival, director and actress Jodie Foster spoke out about the trope—often applied by male film makers—of using rape as the lone source of female character development.
“It was ridiculous, it was every single movie I saw,” Foster said. “If you really got to what was the overriding motivation…it was always rape because for some reason men saw that as this incredibly dramatic thing. ‘Well that’s easy! I can just pluck that one out of the sky and apply it to her.’ ”