Jodie Foster wows Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and viewers with her impeccable French: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

American actress Jodie Foster was the exceptional guest of C to you on France 5, alongside Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine on the occasion of the release of season 4 of True Detective. Monday February 12, 2024, the show announced on its social networks: “Jodie Foster, in C à vous live and in French“. Indeed, the 61-year-old American actress spoke in impeccable French throughout her appearance, as you can see in our video above. In an extract from an interview dated 1976 broadcast by C to youthe audience could already hear it speak the language of Molière without difficulty when she was only 14. “I had an accent that was strong at the time”then noted the star of Silence of the Lambs, after viewing the extract. An opinion which left the set rather skeptical. “We’re amazed anyway”Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine told her to reassure her.

But the members of C to you weren’t the only ones to be impressed by Jodie Foster. On social networks, many viewers were keen to praise the actress’s diction. “What a joy to listen to Jodie Foster talk about her profession, without controversy and with perfect French”writes an Internet user on X. “I am always amazed by Jodie Foster’s level of French”assured another user. “Jodie Foster, impeccable French”also remarked a viewer.

Jodie Foster: “Speaking French changed my life”

“Francophone, to say the least. […] We can thank your mother Évelyne for the French high school”declared for his part the columnist Pierre Lescure. “She had never traveled outside the United States – once to Tijuana, Mexico, for a day. Finally, at age 50, she went to France”Jodie Foster said of her mother. “Hop, you, you will speak Frenchyou are going to make French films, you are going to leave the United States”, his mother would have told him. The secret of Jodie Foster’s mastery of French thus lies partly in her years of study at the French high school in Los Angeles, where she obtained her French baccalaureate. His early immersion in the dual culture forged a special bond with our country. “Speaking French changed my life, to be able to blend into a different culture. My personality as a Frenchwoman is something else. I’m someone else here”she confided in 2011 on the set of Grand Journal.