Overview
- Foster told Fresh Air that early industry clout, cemented by her Taxi Driver Oscar nomination at age 12, kept predators at bay.
- She said she experienced workplace misogynist microaggressions but avoided the 'terrible experiences' of sexual abuse.
- Foster credited her late mother and manager, Evelyn 'Brandy' Foster, with steering her early career and choosing projects.
- She described herself as a 'head-first' person whose low-display emotions made emotional manipulation difficult.
- Natalie Portman has said Foster reached out after Portman spoke about being sexualized as a child actor, calling Foster a role model.