Jodie Foster is preparing her upcoming film, along with more casting announcements this week.
Jodie Foster is transitioning from Night Country to wine country. According to Variety, the Academy Award-winning actress has announced her first project since starring in the fourth season of True Detective earlier this year.
She will lead the film Vie Privée, a French-language project directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children, Grand Central). Zlotowski co-wrote the film with French novelist Anne Berest and Gaëlle Macé.
This project seems like an excellent fit for Foster, who has a strong affinity for French culture. The California-born actress is fluent in French and appeared in her first French-language film, Moi, Fleur Bleue, at just 15.
Additionally, Variety highlights that Foster spoke alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris in August and received an honorary Palme at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
In other casting news this week, spinoffs of The Office and The Big Bang Theory completed their casts, and actors like Stephen Graham, Kevin Costner, Aaron Pierre, and Sydney Sweeney secured new roles. Here are more updates from the week:
•Gregg Daniels and Michael Koman’s The Office spinoff has cast Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Tim Key, and Eric Rahill. Ikumelo, Edelman, and Rahill will also write for the untitled series. [via Deadline]
•Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in talks to star in 20th Century’s adaptation of the classic 1992 thriller, alongside Maika Monroe. [via Deadline]
•Alicia Silverstone will star in Irish Blood, a murder mystery series for Acorn TV, where she plays a Los Angeles divorce lawyer searching for her father. [via Deadline]
•Kevin Costner has a new film titled Headhunters in the works. After finishing his four-part epic, he will co-write and star in this “surf thriller” about wave-riders confronting an ancient tribe protecting their land. [via Deadline]
•Chloë Grace Moretz will lead My Mom’s Murder, a series based on Lauren Malloy’s podcast. [via Deadline]
•Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan are in final negotiations for Guy Ritchie’s Paramount+ series The Associate, which centers on an elite family of fixers in London. Ritchie will direct. [via Deadline]
•Sacha Baron Cohen will explore feminism in Ladies First, a comedy adapted from the 2018 French film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile, where he plays a womanizer who finds himself in a woman-dominated parallel world, alongside Rosamund Pike.
Flatbush Misdemeanors alum Alyssa Limperis will join What We Do In The Shadows for its final season, premiering October 21. [via Deadline]
•Showtime’s The Agency, about a CIA agent forced out of his undercover life, has added Reza Brojerdi, Adam Nagaitis, Ambreen Razia, Bilal Hasna, David Harewood, Kurt Egyiawan, Ray BLK, Sabrina Wu, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor to its supporting cast, joining previously announced stars Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, and Richard Gere. [via Deadline]
•Boots Riley has put together an impressive cast for his next film, I Love Boosters, featuring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore. [via Deadline]
•Sydney Sweeney will star in Paul Feig’s The Housemaid, following a struggling woman who finds herself entangled in a wealthy couple’s dangerous secrets. Amanda Seyfried is in talks to play Nina, while Andrew remains uncast. (Possibly her Anyone But You co-star Glen Powell will take that role.)
•Rachel McAdams is in discussions to join Sam Raimi’s film Send Help, described as a “two-hander horror-thriller set on an island.”