Jodie Foster returns to acting, action in ‘Hotel Artemis’
LOS ANGELES — Writer-director Drew Pearce hadn’t even sent out the script for his futuristic, hospital-for-criminals thriller “Hotel Artemis” when Jodie Foster called asking to be part of it.
Foster said she’s done that quite a few times: It’s a strategy for finding the best roles. The 55-year-old actress said she tries to read everything written for a certain age range, male or female. That’s how she became the first person to join “Hotel Artemis,” in which she plays a nurse in her 70s who is proprietor of a hospital for the bad guys in riot-torn Los Angeles alongside Dave Bautista, Sterling K. Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Sofia Boutella, Jenny Slate and Charlie Day. The film hit theaters over the weekend.