Jodie Foster Says Gen Z Can Be 'Really Annoying' in 'the Workplace': 'Did You Not Check Your Spelling?'

“They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10:30 a.m.,' " the actress said in a recent interview with 'The Guardian'

Jodie Foster has a bone to pick with Gen Z.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, published Saturday, the two-time Academy Award winner lamented how she believes many people of that generation — a.k.a those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s — don't exactly have an ideal work ethic.

"They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10:30 a.m.,' " said Foster, 61. "Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them, 'This is all grammatically incorrect — did you not check your spelling?' And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?' "

The True Detective star has two Gen Z sons: Charles, 25, and Kit, 22, whom their mom told The Guardian are "super feminist" and "really into their female friends."

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But it was a process, as when Charles was in high school, "He watched television and came to the conclusion, 'Oh, I just need to be an a--hole. I understand! I need to be s----- to women, and act like I’m a f---er.' "

"And I was like, 'No! That’s not what it is to be a man! That’s what our culture has been selling you for all this time,' " Foster said, adding with a laugh, "I was like, 'You won’t be talking to me like that.' "

Foster's interview came ahead of her appearance at Sunday's 2024 Golden Globes, where she was a presenter and also nominated in the best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture category, for Nyad. (The award went to Da'Vine Joy Randolph, for The Holdovers.)

Alongside her Nyad costar Annette Bening, the Silence of the Lambs actress presented best motion picture, musical or comedy, to Poor Things.

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Last month, Foster spoke with Past Lives star Greta Lee for Interview magazine. During the conversation, the director/actress, who cast Lee in her 2016 movie Money Monster, spoke about struggling in her 50s and how she's feeling now at 61.

"I think it’s an age thing, because I felt these huge shifts the day I turned 30 and the day I turned 60. And 60 was the best shift of all, because I was struggling in my 50s," Foster said after Lee, 40, referred to "ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist" to her early career.

Foster, who became famous as a child star, recalled wondering whether she would "do anything meaningful again" in her 50s and described "that awkward phase where everybody who’s in their late 40s or 50s is very busy getting all plumped and shooting s--- into their face."

"I didn’t want that life," she said, "but I also knew that I couldn’t compete with my old self. So my 50s were tough."

But, the actress added that "something happened when I turned 60," and "I was like, 'I figured it out. This is good.' There was something about going back to the work with a different attitude, I think. About really enjoying supporting other people and saying to myself, 'This is not my time. I had my time. This is their time, and I get to participate in it by giving them whatever wisdom I have.' "

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