Jodie Foster spills on 'annoying' workplace habits of Gen Z

Jodie Foster revealed in a candid interview with the Guardian that she found Gen Z “really annoying” and that she struggled to identify their work patterns.

Speaking of attitude, the actor noted: “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace."

“They’re like: ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or 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?’” she jokingly added.

The Taxi Driver alum highlighted that young people in the industry need to slow down and “relax for a while."

“They need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs. I can help them find that, which is so much more fun than being, with all the pressure behind it, the protagonist of the story,” the 61-year-old actor added.

In the interview, the American actor and filmmaker also revealed that she reached out to Bella Ramsay, the 20-year-old non-binary actor, to get familiar with modern fashion. 

She admitted: “I reached out to Bella, because we’d never met, and said: ‘I want you to introduce me at this thing,’ which is a wonderful event about actors and people in the movies, but is also very much a fashion thing. Which means it’s determining who represents us.”

She spoke of Ramsay in good faith, classifying her as a good example of an actor in “vector of authencity.”

Bella Ramsay is known for her roles in shows like The Last of Us and Game of Thrones.

Foster also spilled beans on the challenges she faced around gender stereotypes in her family after coming out queer in 2013.