Jodi Foster Comes Out (More or Less) At the Golden Globes (VIDEO)

By On 01/14/2013 · 58 Comments · In Events

Share on TumblrShare via email

Actress, Jodi Foster, easily gave the speech of the night at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. She accepted the Cecil B. Demille Life Time Achievement award for having spent 47 of her 50 years in show business.

She began as a child actress in Disney films and eventually moved into adult roles as well as producing and directing.

Deeply private, she came out as a lesbian more or less by declaring, “I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the Stone Age.” Then gave an impassioned plea for privacy. “I’m not Honey Boo Boo.” she says. My reality show would be so boring.”

Her rambly and heartfelt speech was original and very, very moving.

Check it out below.

Tagged with:
 
← Older Comments
  • ohreli

    Hi Quickjessie—I didnt know what the story was with the mother (although I was a caregiver once for an Alzheimer’s patient), and I certainly dont mean to diminish Jody’s struggle or pain.   And I didnt mind Jody repeating “I love you” three times….but I didnt know why she was referring to her mom as a very distant figure.   It makes more sense now knowing the mom has alzheimer’s .   But when she said to her mom “Mom, I know you’re inside those blue eyes somewhere,”and “There are so many things you wont understand” —since it also sounded as scripted as the rest of the speech, I didnt really feel she was speaking to her mom.  More than speaking to her mom, she was really speaking to the audience, and telling us how hard it is to not know what or even if your loved one comprehends you .  Again, I feel for anyone who loses a loved one to alzheimer, and all of this might have moved me, if she hadn’t scripted it so exactly with the bizaare stew of both seemingly well-rehearsed rapid fire quips and precisely-worded “personal” messages.  It felt a bit like a Neil Simon tragi-comedy….

  • ptslittlecomment

    And Foster has thanked Sydney and their kids before in her acceptance speeches. The fact that she acknowledged her was not an issue. I also loved the fact that she played around with the “I have a confession to make” as she was hounded for years to publically out herself.
    My issue was that her speech was sorely in need of an editor. She lost focus several times by her rambling. It was almost as the chip on her shoulder was making her was to jump off the verbal cliff so to speak.
    Had she been able to make her points without driving them into the ground or killed them with humor more (in all things except her comments to her mom) I think the overall impact of her speech would have been more effective.
    This is just my opinion of course, but it seemed tp be the overall concensus of the group I watched with last night which was actors and techies, both gay and straight.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I felt the same way when Jodi made the comment about being lonely.  Seems I remember some publicity recently regarding her sexuality.  I didn’t know she was gay, so I just thought she was addressing the guessing game.  May she have continued success!

  • Axxxel

    I wonder what you would do if you would receive a life -time award and you have to give a speech afterwards..Would you be able to speak off the cuff, in a spontanous way and without preparation ? If you can, I salute you, but  I know I cannot do that.. I would say too many eh… eh… eh…and mumble and stumble over my words… So I better write down a nice, eloquent written speech that may sound less spontaneous but is neccesary for someone like me who cannot think on my feet in the moment when adrenaline is running high…

    Without the preparation of a speech, I would maybe do the same as Hillary Swank (who forgot to thank her (now ex) husband when she received an oscar) and forget to thank some of my love ones and closest friends and colleages. I think someone poked fun at that Hillary Swank incident in the latest Golden Globes 2013 by thanking Hillary’s ex -husband in her speech.

  • Axxxel

    since it also sounded as scripted as the rest of the speech, I didnt really feel she was speaking to her mom…

    Just because it sounds scripted and prepared, does it mean that it is less sincere ?

    Maybe this does not really relate to the subject… but ever wondered whether a man wants to propose to his girlfriend to marry him…should he do it spontanously and just blurt it out  ?Or  should he write down the romantic proposal speech and rehearse it ? It all depends on the man.. how he can handle his nerves and how quick he can think on his feet. It does not mean that a prepared proposal is less sincere…

  • Axxxel

    Then again, everyone was formally dressed but the whole occasion is actually a dinner so it is not as formal as e.g. the Oscars.. so it does not have to be too much of a well structured speech… keep that for even more formal or business occasions.

  • Axxxel

    Heartfelt yet, but it was so damned prefabricated.

    That is what I also felt when I heard the acceptance speech of Chris Colfer (Glee) in 2011. But I did not care less… it was a succinct and strong speech and so teenage and entertaining. And it is all about entertainment.

  • ohreli

    Axxxel, I just imagined a man proposing to his girlfriend with a scripted 7-minute speech full of rehearsed one-liners.  No matter how sincere he is, it is not going to sound as sincere as whatever comes out spontaneously, even if it is not as clever or word-perfect.   Likewise, I am not questioning Jody’s sincerity.  Since everyone is commenting on her speech, I was likewise commenting on her speech.  I really, really, really dont recommend to any potential marriage proposers to write a long speech….. lol…okay a poem, maybe, but not a speech.

← Older Comments