Jodie Foster

misogynist microaggressions.

That's just a part of being a woman, right?

But what kept me from having those bad experiences, those terrible experiences?

And what I came to believe, and you can tell me if you think this is wrong, is that I had a certain amount of power by the time I was like 12.

So by the time I had my first Oscar nomination, I was part of a different category of people that had power.

And I was too dangerous to touch.

I could have, you know, ruined people's careers or I could have called uncle.

So I wasn't on the block.

It also might be just my personality, you know, that I am a head first person and I approach the world in a head first way.

It's very difficult to emotionally manipulate me because I don't operate with my emotions on the surface.

Predators use whatever they can in order to manipulate and get people to do what they want them to do.

And that's much easier when the person is younger, when the person is weaker, when the person has no power.

That's precisely what predatory behavior is about, is using power in order to diminish people, in order to dominate them.

And if you're a 50-year-old man, it's not hard to do that to a 13-year-old.

Because you're going to be dominant.

You're going to know how to talk to people.

So I got very lucky to be protected as a young person by my mom and by the good men around me that cared about me, that were father figures, that didn't want anything bad to ever happen to me.

Yeah, I guess so.

I guess so.

Yeah, I guess I was empowered by the people I played in some ways.