GERMANY: Jodie Foster works the red carpet at the Berlin premiere of "The Brave One."
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GERMANY: Jodie Foster works the red carpet at the Berlin premiere of "The Brave One."
Academy Award winner Jodie Foster Jodie Foster talks about life in New York City after 9/11 while promoting her latest film, "The Brave One." Fans crowded around Potsdamer Platz on Thursday (September 13) to catch a glimpse of the star who plays a stone-cold vengeance killer. Foster portrays Erica Bain, a New York City radio personality who goes on a killing spree after her fiancee is murdered in a Central Park attack. The movie explores whether people, when pushed beyond their limits, will turn the other cheek or hit back. "Something terrible happens to her and her boyfriend which changes her life and turns her into a different person then she could of imagined. It sort of brings her through the depth of her darkness in some ways and becomes a stranger to herself," said Foster. Director Neil Jordan, whose hits include 1992's "The Crying Game," called Foster one of most versatile actresses and the perfect fit for the role. "She is the reason I did this specific story. I couldn't imagine anyone else in having this role and being courageous and brave enough to go the strange and troubling places the character goes," said Jordan. Foster, 44, won her first Academy Award playing a rape victim in 1988's "The Accused." Three years later her turn as an FBI agent on the trail of serial killer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" earned her a second Oscar. She has also been in other thrillers like "Panic Room" and "Flightplan." "The Brave One" opens across Germany on September 27.
ITN Source | September 20, 2007
