Jodie Foster explores impact of financial risk in movie
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — When Jodie Foster wanted to explore the human relationship with technology and virtual intimacy in her latest directorial effort “Money Monster,” she opted to use Wall Street as her setting and raise the dramatic stakes by holding George Clooney hostage.
“I wanted to see how those things affected these two human beings, in this small little room, who are confined with each other,” she said.
Sony Pictures’ “Money Monster,” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this week and in US theaters last Friday, sees Clooney play Lee Gates, a suave, showboating host of a money news TV program, held hostage live on air.
Gates and his producer Patty (Julia Roberts) are forced by the captor, who lost his life savings investing in stock that Gates had vouched for, to dig deeper into the technical glitch that wiped away millions of dollars of people’s savings.