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As a TV director, Jodie Foster is forging a lovely new profession. Despite a setback with her most recent feature film directing, the Mel Gibson movie The Beaver ($971K), she bounced back today with an Emmy nomination for her comedy series directing “Lesbian Request Denied,” the third episode of Jenji Kohan’s Orange Is the New Black. Actually, this is Foster’s second overall Emmy nomination; her first came from the 1999 Showtime film The Baby Dance, which starred Laura Dern and Stockard Channing and was executive produced by Foster. To say that Foster’s work is always connected with the word “bold” would be an understatement. From her role as a young prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s legendary Taxi Driver in 1976 to her production and acting in the 2007 femme vigilante picture The Brave One, Foster has done it all. Arguably, this is the first time that director Foster has addressed lesbianism on screen with Orange Is the New Black. She also made a comeback as the director of Orange Is The New Black’s “Thirsty Bird” episode from the second season, and she worked behind the scenes on Netflix’s “Chapter 22” episode of House of Cards. Watchers on the Wall, this season’s episode of Game of Thrones, was directed by Doomsday British helmer Neil Marshall, one of several feature directors finding artistic redemption in television.
Foster, who appreciates Kohan’s distinct sense of moving, raucous comedy, tells Deadline that “dramedy is what I do as a director; it is not who I am as an actor.” It takes a very certain kind of expertise to be moved by quirky and strange material in this genre. The spiritual journeys of the female inmates on Orange Is The New Black are extremely intricate. They all undergo introspection and grow from one another.
