After the Purple Wedding...Now What?4 of 10
The Jodie Foster Route: Shape your early career with daring parts in TV and film. Go to a great university. Return to the big screen with an unexpected, career-defining performance.
Sounds simple enough, right? Of course, this completely discounts various X-factors like luck, studio promotion and, to a certain extent, being anointed by the industry.
Gleeson is backing away from an acting career just as it's taking off. In comparison, Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she went to Yale. After taking time off to earn her degree, she returned to Hollywood with several roles in relatively unsuccessful films before scoring her Oscar winning role in The Accused, for which she had to audition.
Foster joined the hallowed ranks of Hollywood A-listers not long after landing what may be her most iconic role, as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
Also see: Emma Watson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jena Malone, Claire Danes
Sounds simple enough, right? Of course, this completely discounts various X-factors like luck, studio promotion and, to a certain extent, being anointed by the industry.
Gleeson is backing away from an acting career just as it's taking off. In comparison, Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she went to Yale. After taking time off to earn her degree, she returned to Hollywood with several roles in relatively unsuccessful films before scoring her Oscar winning role in The Accused, for which she had to audition.
Foster joined the hallowed ranks of Hollywood A-listers not long after landing what may be her most iconic role, as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
Also see: Emma Watson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jena Malone, Claire Danes