Jodie Foster worked with Kristen Stewart when she was just 11-years-old in the 2001 flick "Panic Room" -- and now, 11 years later, she's standing up for her costar in the wake of her very public affair.
"In
my era, through discipline and force of will, you could still manage to
reach for a star-powered career and have the authenticity of a private
life," Foster writes in an eloquent post for The Daily Beast.
"I’ve
said it before and I will say it again: if I were a young actor today I
would quit before I started," she continues ... referencing the crazy
amount of attention and headlines given to Stewart's scandal with
married director Rupert Sanders.
"If I had to
grow up in this media culture, I don’t think I could survive it
emotionally," Foster adds. "I would only hope that someone who loved me,
really loved me, would put their arm around me and lead me away to
safety."
Foster goes on to write about working with Kristen on her 11th birthday,
revealing that she and Stewart's mom had a conversation about trying to
talk the young actress out of being an actor.
"Just to set the
record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not
include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense
of self," the notoriously private Foster continues.
She adds that the scandal will blow over, "eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away."
In her final words to Stewart, Foster writes "Hopefully in the process you don’t lose your ability to throw your arms in the air
again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and --
finally -- the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don’t let them take
that away from you."
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