“Silence of the Lambs” actress Jodie Foster, 61, faced backlash on social media after she called Generation Z “really annoying” in a new interview.
Jodie Foster isn’t a big fan of Generation Z.
The Oscar winner admitted that working with young actors is sometimes frustrating.
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace,” the 61-year-old jokingly told the Guardian in an interview published Saturday.
“They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10:30 a.m.’ Or in emails, I’ll tell them, ‘This is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling?’ And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”
Foster, who is familiar with Gen Z because she has two sons in their 20s, believes she can help young people in the industry.
“They need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs,” she said.
“I can help them find that, which is so much more fun than being, with all the pressure behind it, the protagonist of the story.”
The star of HBO’s upcoming “True Detective: Night Country” further said she does “a lot of reaching out to young actresses” because she “had a hard time growing up” and doesn’t want them to have the same experience.
