What I loved most about Jodie Foster’s Emmy win

Here is video of Jodie Foster winning her first Emmy last night. She won in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for True Detective: Night Country. Foster said she wanted to highlight the Inuit people of Northern Alaska. (Though the show was filmed in Iceland, it takes place in Alaska and the team traveled to Alaska for research.) “They just told us their stories and they allowed us to listen and that was just a blessing. It was love, love, love. And when you feel that, something amazing happens. It’s deep and wonderful and it’s older than this place and this time. That’s just the message, which is love and work equals art.”

What is especially loved was what Jodie said at the end of her speech: “And the love of my life, Alex Hedison, my wife. Thank you so much!”

When she won her Academy Awards in 1989 and 1992, she was not open about her personal life (and who could blame her?) but these are different times and for more than a decade now, she has been out and proud. And I am so glad.