Illuminated by those giant white cube-shape helium balloons that are the rage now on nighttime shoots, and that give a set the look of Oz after dark, the character appeared tough and a little mournful.Ī scene filmed over a couple of sweltering nights under the Macombs Dam Bridge, on the edge of Spanish Harlem, called for her to comfort a drugged-out teenage prostitute in the back seat of a shabby pimpmobile and then, when things turned ugly, to blow the pimp away. Foster is Erica Bain, a radio show host, who becomes a vigilante bent on revenge after her fiancé is murdered. In “The Brave One,” which was filming in New York this summer, mostly at night, and is due out next fall, Ms. She didn’t just outwit the bad guys, she unmanned them. Her pale blue eyes flared like gas jets, her nostrils widened, her chin (almost as famous as the cheekbones) hardened. Foster was a single mom who when aggravated - when she and her daughter are under siege in their home, or her daughter is snatched from her on a jumbo jet - proved to have vast reserves of inner strength.
In two movies before that, “Panic Room” (2002) and “Flightplan” (2005), Ms.
With her hair tied back, her famous cheekbones gleam like hatchet blades. She wears stiletto heels and tailored power suits that reveal just a hint of sexy camisole. Her character, Madeline White, is a “fixer,” the kind of person who can with equal ease take care of your parking tickets or arrange to have your neighbor assassinated.
In her last movie, Spike Lee’s “Inside Man,” just out on DVD, Jodie Foster played a woman so self-possessed she was terrifying.
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