Jodie Foster steps into the director’s chair for a new installment of Netflix’s “Black Mirror”.
Starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Foster’s episode – “Arkangel” – takes a look at good parenting and how technology can keep kids safe. But of course, in true “Black Mirror” fashion, it’s not exactly a feel-good tale, especially when it involves needles to the brain and tech implants.
While the episode’s characters are all for more parental control, Foster and DeWitt tell ET Canada’s Matte Babel, it’s not for them.
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“I have a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old and I don’t want to know where they are – I really don’t. I do not want to know,” Foster says. “Of course, they’re boys too – and that’s a different relationship.”
The actress-turned-director says giving her eldest son, Charles, some freedom has brought them closer together and they share an “amazing” relationship.
“He will call me… he’ll talk about something that happened to him, and he’ll be honest about depression or he will, he’ll open up to me in ways because I don’t invade his privacy,” she explains. “So I think that you close the relationship with your children, by hanging onto their coattails. It’s just like any relationship – if you’re holding onto somebody’s foot and saying, ‘Do you love me, do you love me?’ the chances are you’re going to get a foot in the face.”
DeWitt, who has two young daughters, agrees.
“It freaks me out,” she says, adding that she removed crib monitors from her eldest early and didn’t even want to attempt a monitor with her youngest child. “I want to keep them safe and I recognize this is a person and not mine to control.”
Season 4 of “Black Mirror” hits Netflix on Dec. 29.