Los Angeles - Award-winning actress Jodie Foster has backed out of an earlier agreement to head the jury at the 54th Cannes film festival after being offered a leading movie role. Foster is replacing Nicole Kidman in David Fincher's The Panic Room after Kidman dropped out of the production with a knee injury.
Foster, who speaks perfect French, told Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob she was heartbroken at having to withdraw from the job.