Jodie Foster wants Mel Gibson to keep on acting

Jodie Foster hopes Mel Gibson doesn’t retire from Hollywood.

The Braveheart star recently told Deadline that he wants to quit acting.

“I don’t care if I never act again,” he said.

And Foster who directed Mel in upcoming movie The Beaver thinks it would be a great loss to the industry if Foster walked away from making films.

“I think it would be a tremendous loss to not have him acting again,” Foster said.

In The Beaver, Mel stars as a traumatized man, Walter Black, who channels his personality into a beaver puppet, in a role some critics are calling the best of his career.

“I do think it’s a side of Mel that people haven’t seen in a long time. It’s incredibly raw and very brave of him,” Foster said.

“I called him last week and said, ‘I hope you know that people are amazed by the performance.’ I know he is proud of it secretly he will say to me, ‘I really like it’.

“He understands a man struggling with self-loathing, who wants to change, and in this moment of spiritual crisis, only believes he has the choice of a life sentence or death sentence. In the midst of this, he finds a survival tool that gets him through it and allows him to live again, and I think that is something that understands from a personal place.”