Posted by admin on October 02, 2024

Jodie attended the Gabriela Hearst show during Paris Fashion Week Photos of her attending have been added. Enjoy!



 

Public Appearances > 2024 > September 30: Gabriela Hearst – Paris Fashion Week RTW Spring 2025

 

Posted by admin on July 13, 2024

The BikeRiders was Officially released on Digital this week. Screencaptures of Jodie as Kathy in the film have been added, enjoy!


 

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Posted by admin on June 22, 2024

 

“I watched the full thing. Yeah, I felt guilty every time, but I kept coming back for more.”

We sat down with Jodie Comer and Austin Butler, who play Kathy and Benny, to discuss making the film, their acting process, and what they’ve been getting up to for fun lately.

The Bike Riders is such a beautiful film, so relatable in a way that I, too, will always chase a red flag around. I thought the film was really about wanting the sense of community and people wanting something where they can have an outlet just for fun. So I wanted to ask the both of you, what is it that you do just for fun?
Jodie:
 What do I do for fun? Now I feel miserable!
Austin: What is fun? You know, something that I started doing a few years ago, which I picked back up and I realised it was just for fun, was painting. Just the feeling of it not being about any result. And pottery.
Jodie: I feel like a good dance in the kitchen whilst cooking, for fun.
Austin: Ooh, that’s a good one. What song? What song can you not do but dance to?
Jodie: I don’t know, I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it! Beah, I would say that. Dancing in the kitchen, solid.

Austin, I’ve touched on how you’re a red flag in this film. Obviously, you’re not in real life, but in this film, you are a red flag. And Kathy is chasing after you because you’re her guilty pleasure, I would say. So, we all have guilty pleasures, what would you say yours are?
Austin:
 I’ve got a lot of pleasure, but I don’t know if I’m guilty about it. But, yeah, what’s a guilty pleasure of yours?
Jodie: I put used matchsticks back in the matchsticks box, and I didn’t realise how psychotic that was.
Austin: So, then you just mix it in with the other ones?
Jodie: Yeah.
Austin: So do you ever pull one out that’s already mixed?
Jodie: Yeah, and I’m like, oh, f***. But it’s just part of the thing.
Austin: And then you stick it back in?
Jodie: No, then I put it in the bin.
I feel like it can be quite dangerous. Are you waiting for it to fully burn out before you put it in? Because what if you just then ignited the whole rest of the box?
Jodie:
 That’s true. Well, maybe now I’m not going to do that. Someone pointed it out to me recently, and then I felt a bit guilty about it. I mean, an obvious one is reality television. Some sort of housewives of an area. Have you seen that show Couples Therapy? That’s a good one.
Austin: I did Love is Blind recently. That was crazy.
Jodie: Are you in? Is that what you’re now watching?
Austin: Oh, yeah, I watched the full thing. Yeah, I felt guilty every time, but I kept coming back for more.

You should host the next reunion! So, Jodie, you’re known as the queen of accents. It’s amazing to me how you can flip from film to film, and especially with this one, you have a very specific accent. What was your process of learning this one in particular?
Jodie:
 Yeah, she had quite a specific voice, but I was very lucky that I had 30 minutes of audio of her. So it was just about spending time with the audio and working with a brilliant dialect coach who helps you and makes you look way better than what you are, you know? So, yeah, it was just about prepping that really to then get to set and hopefully be able to think about it a little less.
Austin: She’s identical to the recording. That’s what so amazing. I couldn’t tell the difference. It was stunning.
And you just replay that and then say it back?
Jodie:
 Oh, yeah, you just live with it. It’s like when you play your favourite song so much that you’re like, “Oh, God, I think I might have killed this song.”
Austin: Did you have certain times of the day that you would listen to it the most? Did you listen to it before bed or first thing in the morning?
Jodie: I think morning was a big one. I find learning lines before bed is great, though.
Austin: Yeah, that’s the best time.
Jodie: Spoken like true lazy actors, everybody! I like to read my lines the night before! No, but there’s definitely something where it soaks into your memory, I feel.
It’s like playing in your dreams and then it goes into the subconscious.
Jodie:
 Then you have the anxiety dreams about forgetting your lines! It’s never-ending.

You’ve both had the benefit of playing characters in the ‘60s or even older periodic times. What is your favourite time or decade to play in terms of the style of clothing, even the way that people speak? What is your preferred time?
Jodie:
 I mean, I have to say ‘60s was pretty cool. Especially these types of people, you know, who were kind of living in Chicago within the subculture, who just felt very kind of rebellious and free. Again, to speak to Danny Lyon and his photographs is like… They were so authentic and there was so much to pull from. You think of the ‘60s, and you think of the music, you think of the clothing. Everything was so brilliant and transformative, I feel. I feel like when you’re doing that kind of period, you’re like, okay, it helps you kind of step into the world. Swinging ‘60s.
Austin: In the swinging ‘60s, that’s what they call them. No, I think the same way. All these motorcycles of the ‘60s… It was such an amazing period – there was World War II and then you come out of that and then you’ve got the ‘50s, which are this sort of the idea of this idyllic time where you have white picket fences. But I think below that idea of this perfect world was a lot of awful trauma and wild things. So you have the ‘60s that suddenly are trying to break that. The pendulum starts swinging in this opposite direction. And then it has its own chaos at that time. But as far as the clothing and the music and the bikes and the cars and stuff, I think that’s a very complex time. And it’s cool.

Posted by admin on June 22, 2024


 

In The Bikeriders, a movie pumped up with ostentatious displays of masculinity, it’s Jodie Comer who steals the show. As Kathy, wife to Austin Butler’s character Benny, the Liverpool native transforms into a pugnacious Midwesterner who brings pathos and vulnerability to the real-life story about a ’60s-era motorcycle club and the men who’d die for it. It’s further proof that the former Killing Eve star is an actor without limits. One person amazed by Comer’s skills is Jodie Foster, who got on a call with her name-twin to talk about emotional triggers, film-set politics, and theatrical trauma.

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FRIDAY 1 PM APRIL 12, 2024 LONDON

JODIE COMER: Hi Jodie, how’s it going?

JODIE FOSTER: Good, Jodie! I’m so excited.

COMER: Thank you for taking the time to do this. I’m so appreciative.

FOSTER: I got to see The Bikeriders last night, so that was fun.

COMER: Oh, brilliant. So it’s fresh?

FOSTER: Totally fresh. We’ll get into that, but first and most importantly, how did your mom come up with your name? I need to know.

COMER: [Laughs] My mom said that Jodie was always clear to her. If I was going to be a boy, I’d be Kieran, but I ended up being a girl.

FOSTER: The spelling is really uncommon. I think my mom decided she invented the spelling. She said if you put an “e” at the end, it would be the girl’s version.

COMER: It’s true. I haven’t met a lot of Jodies.

FOSTER: I really loved watching The Bikeriders, and it amazes me that you’re able to transform so completely. I don’t know how you do it!

COMER: Thank you. I had an initial conversation with Jeff [Nichols, the director] on Zoom, and he sent the script over, and I was aware that it was based on a book of photographs by Danny Lyon. There were a couple of images of this woman Kathy, and then he was like, “Just so you know, I have 30 minutes of audio of her.” I was like, “Why is this not in my inbox?” It was in that moment, listening to the clip, where I felt like I had an insight as to who this woman was. I could hear the way she carried herself through the way she spoke, and that ignited my imagination.

FOSTER: I don’t want to read into the patterns of your work, but because I’m so old, I’m able to look back on roles that I chose and say, “Now I see why I did that.” It occurred to me as I was looking through your stuff, between The Last Duel, Prima Facie, and even Free Guy, that you’ve told stories about men’s toxicity, and how the women were dramatically affected by that and having their own identities, and possibly by virtue of being close to them, surviving it.

COMER: I think you’re right. I’m realizing that I have a revelation after I’ve finished a job of becoming aware of what it gifted me on a personal level, or maybe something I was wanting to unearth within myself, that I mightn’t have been super conscious of. The beauty of those characters is that they are—I don’t know, I hate that term “strong female character.” What I enjoyed about them was, they had strength, but they were also given space to be vulnerable. But what ultimately connected me to those roles is, they trigger an emotion in me. They rile me up.

FOSTER: Hopefully you get to the end of the movie or show and you say, “Because I went through this, somehow I’m a fuller or better person. And hopefully by refraction, the people that explore this thing with me, the audience members, maybe they get to be better people too.” I guess that’s what the hope is.

COMER: Yeah.

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Posted by admin on June 19, 2024

Jodie has been featured in two shoots this Month ahead of Bikeriders Press! Photos from the amazing shoots have been added to our gallery, enjoy! Apologies for the wait.



 

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Posted by admin on May 31, 2024

The cast of the Bikeriders attended Sirius XM to promote the upcoming film The Bike Riders. Photos of Jodie attending have been added, enjoy!



PUBLIC APPEARANCES > 2024 > MAY 30: THE CAST AND DIRECTOR OF ‘THE BIKERIDERS’ APPEAR ON SIRIUSXM’S THE JESS CAGLE SHOW

 

Posted by admin on May 29, 2024

Jodie attended the 108th Indianapolis 500 with BikeRiders co-star Austin Butler. Photos have been added to the gallery, enjoy!


PUBLIC APPEARANCES > 2024 > MAY 28: 108TH INDIANAPOLIS 500

 

 

Posted by admin on April 26, 2024

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes have joined the cast of the 28 Days Later sequel.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are set to direct and write the film again, which will be called 28 Years Later.

The original 2002 film, which starred Cillian Murphy, saw the UK taken over by zombies.

The film has already had one sequel – 28 Weeks Later, but this was not written and directed by Boyle or Garland.

The pair did serve as executive producers on the 2007 film, but this new film is set to launch a new trilogy in the vein of the 2002 original.

Murphy will also return to the film, not as the main star this time, but as executive producer.

28 Days Later, which centred around the theme of a post-apocalyptic world, gave a big boost to the zombie horror genre in the early 2000s.

It was somewhat of a surprise success, earning more than £65m worldwide.

The film then prompted other movies such as World War Z, Zombieland and TV show The Walking Dead to be made.

As well as propelling the zombie genre, it also boosted the careers of Murphy and also of Boyle, who would go on to make Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours.

Jodie Comer, who won an Emmy for her breakout role in Killing Eve, has recently starred in Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds and in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has also signed up to the film – there’s been speculation recently about whether he will become the next James Bond.

Ralph Fiennes completes the casting announcements for now, the Oscar-nominated actor is currently starring in Macbeth in Washington DC.

Posted by admin on February 21, 2024

For our 30th annual Hollywood Issue, we’ve chosen 11 vibrant, wildly different stars seizing this moment. We gathered them together over two sunny January days in Los Angeles, under the direction of photographer and filmmaker Gordon von Steiner, to talk about everything from their first auditions to their most unforgettable lines—and, of course, to create this year’s VF Hollywood cover, an homage to our first foray into the form three decades ago.

The uncertainties, of course, can’t be denied: The entertainment industry just emerged from the most profound work stoppage in its history. Audiences are splintering, bottom-line priorities are intensifying, and there are still existential questions about the future even as cameras start rolling again. But if movies as surprising and visionary as Barbie and Oppenheimer can smash box office records even as Marvel and DC franchises nose-dive, it’s clearly time to shake things up.

For our 30th annual Hollywood Issue, we’ve chosen 11 vibrant, wildly different stars seizing this moment. We gathered them together over two sunny January days in Los Angeles, under the direction of photographer and filmmaker Gordon von Steiner, to talk about everything from their first auditions to their most unforgettable lines—and, of course, to create this year’s VF Hollywood cover, an homage to our first foray into the form three decades ago.

The uncertainties, of course, can’t be denied: The entertainment industry just emerged from the most profound work stoppage in its history. Audiences are splintering, bottom-line priorities are intensifying, and there are still existential questions about the future even as cameras start rolling again. But if movies as surprising and visionary as Barbie and Oppenheimer can smash box office records even as Marvel and DC franchises nose-dive, it’s clearly time to shake things up.

And you’ll see a new generation rising, with bright talents like The Bikeriders’ Jodie Comer, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan, and Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega imbuing complex roles with extraordinary humanity.

Some of the actors here were primed for a whirlwind before everything abruptly went quiet with the actors and writers strikes.

Ortega, who will star in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel this fall, says Wednesday’s record-breaking Netflix launch, which closed out 2022, had been dizzying. “I didn’t know what to say or do,” she says. “I just became very confused emotionally.” The break imposed by the strike helped her remember why she’s been acting full tilt since she was nine: “To still enjoy the job just as much 12 years later—having seen all of the ugly and wonderful and extreme—is pretty cool.”

Others couldn’t slow down at all. Because Greta Lee’s Oscar-nominated movie, Past Lives, was an independent production, she had the mixed blessing of being allowed to do promotion for a year straight: “That’s why I feel like a corpse woman who’s ready to lie down and crawl into either a cheeseburger or bowl of spaghetti.”

But like many of her peers here, Lee spent years navigating narrow-minded business models, so she knows this moment matters. “For myself and for other Asian American women, I don’t want to accept my previous reality—I can’t,” she says. “I have to make up for lost time.”

Randolph, meanwhile, may well take home an Oscar on March 10 for her work in The Holdovers after making a name for herself on the New York stage. “When you truly understand the climate of this industry and who’s telling the stories, we’re marginalized. And then on top of that, to be a woman of color who is curvy?” she says. “This outdoes the dreams that I dreamt…. I let go of the wheel in that respect a long time ago.”

Lily Gladstone, an Oscar nominee this year for Killers of the Flower Moon, was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, and came up fighting for a paltry selection of Indigenous parts in film and television. “You kick the door down to hold it open,” she says. She’s now the face of progress and could become the first Native American performer to ever win best actress. “I advocate for other people before I advocate for myself,” she says. “Even just making dinner reservations, I count the whole party and I forget myself.”

On a hazy winter afternoon, Charles Melton paces on his deck in the Silver Lake hills. He’s demonstrating exactly how, and where, he developed the physicality of his character, Joe, in May December, which has vaulted the Riverdale alum from teen-soap idol to art house heartthrob.

Between sips of Coke Zero, Melton gazes out at the panoramic view of the Los Angeles skyline. “I’ve always been a big dreamer, and I’ve tried not to set any limits in my mind because I’ll get caught up in the limits outside of me,” he says. “I’m always seeking. My ambition is always driving me.”

He can’t say what’s next, after so many prizes and nominations. But Melton has come out of May December focused and reoriented. He’s ready to take the town in his hands—and you hear that a lot from this group. “There’s been this democratization of creativity where gatekeepers have been demoted and everyone can make things,” says Portman.

Audiences are already reaping the rewards. —David Canfield

Meet the Stars of the 2024 Hollywood Portfolio


The British actor is only 30 and already halfway to an EGOT, but she swears she’s not following a playbook: “I am just following my gut.”