LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Jodie Foster said she told the director of her French film A Private Life, in theaters Friday, she was unsure of her comic abilities. In the dark comedy, Foster plays a psychiatrist investigating the alleged suicide of one of her patients.
Lilian Steiner (Foster) suspects her patient, Paula (Virginie Efira) was a murder victim of her husband (Mathieu Amalric). Lilian violates boundaries of patient confidentiality, medical ethics and even trespassing to satisfy her suspicions.
In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Foster shared the caveat she gave director Rebecca Zlotowski.
"I don't know how funny I am," Foster said she told the director. "I know I have humor as a person. I'm actually a pretty light person but I don't know that my talent lies in comedy as an actor."
Foster has starred in comedies Carnage, Maverick and as a child, Freaky Friday and directed the comedy Home for the Holidays. And it's as a director that Foster is most skeptical about her comic prowess.
