Actor Rob Lowe toast "Beaver"-director, which he calls "the greatest actor, director and friend anyone could ever have."
CANNES - Riding high on the enthusiastic reception of his new film in Cannes Beaver, Jodie Foster, was the guest of honor at an exclusive cocktail that The Hollywood Reporter has set Wednesday night to recognize his multifaceted career.
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Rob Lowe, who has known Foster since they played together in 1984, The Hotel New Hampshire, led the guests in a toast, saluting "the greatest American actor, director and friend anyone could ever have."
As the sun cast shadows stretching across the beach setting Z Beach, opposite the Hotel Martinez, Foster reflected on his remarkable career, said: "We make movies - they found you yesterday They are found they are talking about DVDs ... They are a legacy in some way. "
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But equally important, she says, private moments. She recalled, for example, how she and Lowe were filming a love scene where a lunch was called. Instead of joining the film crew, the two decided to stay behind, without clothes, sharing burgers on the bed where they had filmed in time to discuss and take a nap before resuming work for the day.
"These are the moments, there is no evidence of their existence, and yet they live," he said.
It also recognized the unique experience of having his latest film, directed and stars Mel Gibson, held in Cannes.
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"Last night, once the red carpet to the applause - it's something I've never been in my life," he said.
With the festival winding to an end, the editorial director and editor Janice Min THR Lori Burgess welcomed the guests, who were in a relaxed atmosphere after days of back-to-back film buffs and dealmaking. While some chose for cocktails and canapés, while others have reached for a bottle of Vitaminwater multicolored, which co-organized the demonstration.
Among the blood flow was Fox co-chairman Jim Gianopulos, CEO Michael Lang, Miramax, Sony Pictures Classics co-chaired by Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, Sierra / affinity CEO Nick Meyer, the French actress Clotilde Courau Studio Canal and Princess Sophie Kopaczynski.
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"She is able to run everything she ever wanted - it must be admired," said Bernard Foster. "For a woman in this industry to act, direct, calling his own shots -.. It is a model and we need more women directors in this business because we can not have a business where people do not say no story "
Nancy Kirkpatrick, Summit Entertainment, president of worldwide marketing, who had been in the theater of the Palais Lumiere ', where the beaver was constantly standing ovation last night, said: "It' s been so nice to see the general public for celebrate one of Jodie. And so relaxed and happy to see Mel was just brilliant. "
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