I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this, and saw Jane afterwards while she signed autographs. I laughed at one of her jokes and she made eye contact with me and smiled. Jane is my idol and I'll never forget it
Besides liking her acting, I really like Jane's voice. It's very distinctive and soothing, plus she's very intelligent and well-spoken. I could listen to her thoughts, stories, and jokes for hours. She's very likable.
this is a life LIVED to the full...she is SO poised and dignified and sharp and energetic and smart and...agree or disagree with her politics, she is a DOER...a person of action...courage...strength...honesty...very honest...watch her Oprah interview...she is 72 or so and kills it...very insightful interview...equally poised.
No, she's led a privileged sheltered and protected existence, never had to worry about anything whatsoever. That's why she dove so deep Into the activism to be seen as a common person but because that's not something that would ever actually be reality all she did was play the part of hypocrite to the letter. So outspoken against vietnam and the war but lived in Paris during a chunk of it and funnily enough France was the driving force behind the Vietnam War it was there colony and they essentially pulled out and let the US handle the aftermath of their failed attempt at controlling the colony and when they ultimately Failed allowed an ally to do the dirty work they didn't want to be part of anymore and let the US deal with all of the negatives routing from it. Yet for all the issues with democracy and capitalism and hatred of colonialism she never gave her money or property away never gave up us citizenship and never critisized France for starting g the whole mess in the first place. What a phony the world will not miss her when she finally bites it.
Jane Fonda is a strong, intelligent woman who I admire greatly! I love her sense of humor as well. She is an example of what it means to live life to its fullest, with passion and purpose...right to the end!
Jane Fonda... She's been around since the 60s.. All throughout her career she was never known (that's right, past tense) for being funny. Not even in that piece of garbage 9 to 5. For those of you who want to say stupid things about "a strong woman", let me tell you what she WAS known for in her life. It's time for you to be educated. Jane Fonda is known for: 1) being another 60s sex-bot barbiturate zombie (Barbarella, sci fi soft core etc) 2) menages a trois en France avec Roger Vadim. 3) getting arrested for smuggling weed and being obnoxious about it, pretending it was ideological. 4) a VHS cassette workout video for (other) middle aged 80s housewives in which she wore ankle warmers 5) marrying Ted Turner for his money THAT IS ALL. If you don't believe me, look it up. She hasn't actually DONE anything. She tries to come off as intellectual and an activist-type, but note the way she can't help me dropping her husbands / boyfriends / partners, all of whom did her favours over the years. How do you respond? I'm interested in your comments
Jane Fonda... She's been around since the 60s.. All throughout her career she was never known (that's right, past tense) for being funny. Not even in that piece of garbage 9 to 5. For those of you who want to say stupid things about "a strong woman", let me tell you what she WAS known for in her life. It's time for you to be educated. Jane Fonda is known for: 1) being another 60s sex-bot barbiturate zombie (Barbarella, sci fi soft core etc) 2) menages a trois en France avec Roger Vadim. 3) getting arrested for smuggling weed and being obnoxious about it, pretending it was ideological. 4) a VHS cassette workout video for (other) middle aged 80s housewives in which she wore ankle warmers 5) marrying Ted Turner for his money THAT IS ALL. If you don't believe me, look it up. She hasn't actually DONE anything. She tries to come off as intellectual and an activist-type, but note the way she can't help me dropping her husbands / boyfriends / partners, all of whom did her favours over the years. How do you respond? I'm interested in your comments
She was amazing & especially wonder ful in PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT ❤️ & THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY? & COMES A HORSEMAN but, of course, ALL of the others. One of my heroes & ALWAYS interesting.
It's amazing to me that she has been vilified over her participation in protests against the Vietnam War, but not LBJ. He was a monster. I'm also very impressed about her knowledge of office workers' situations. You don't even hear elected officials confront this problem. This is a marvelous interview. I love the Hepburn stories.
You are correct. LBJ was a scourge of a President. I was in military during his last year as Pres. He was arrogant and just plain stupid. Britain presented a deal North Vietnam would have accepted, but Johnson told them, "Don't tell me how to fight MY war..." (Source: Life magazine) Yeah, it was his war alright. Nixon? Had no plans to get us out. He just said what people wanted to hear. Jane spoke a truth that no one wanted to hear. I Love you Jane ❤️! Me luv u long time! -Farewell memories & Da Nang! 68-73
UncleSpareChange I feel ashamed I did not realize this till the last ten years I was a latchkey child and surrounded by ignorance Now I’m a senior citizen surrounded by the same
She's a very empowering Lady. America is blessed to have her as their own. I as a Canadian would welcome her passionate efforts, even if only for awhile. Thanks so much for this upload, appreciate it.
I have a lot of time for this woman. She needn't ever have gone beyond the glitz of Hollywood, the machine that would have picked her up and discarded her at a certain age because of course. But she chose to engage with the real world beyond those rarefied confines, to carve out a space for the voices who are overlooked, cast aside. She understood and understands solidarity, & the importance of finding common ground. She had choices, and she chose good. It's called integrity. Respect, sister.
JULIA (1977) with Jane Fonda, is my favorite film. But Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Julia, shines in a film filled with great performances. Set in the 1930's, the themes of anti-fascism, friendship, art and theater are blended in a perfect film. It's unique in capturing the plight of writer, Lillian Hellman/Fonda, as she struggles with her first play. We see Hellman walking on the beach and in the background the turbulent ocean waves are churning like the thoughts in her head. Brilliant shot. The apogee is the fraught scene between Hellman and Julia in a Berlin tavern as Hellman smuggles in cash for anti-Nazi activities, and while Fonda is excellent, Fonda herself said Redgrave's performance was on an entirely elevated level.
Love Queen Katharine, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. Top three inspirational women for me. Love this interview, one of my faves of BFI. Adore her hair, outfit and necklace. Her humour, laugh, even physical mannerisms are so much like her dad. What a great playful sense of humour and adore her voice. Jane is so authentic, real, open and honest. What a beauty as well, that smile. 😂 😍🥰😘🌟 ✨ 🤩 👸🎭 🎞️ 📺 🎥 🎬
I a big fan of all that is the stupendous Jane Fonda so I was eager to watch this interview. It is a pity we cannot view the film clips that accompany it. I will suppose it is an issue of copyright. But thank you BFI for making this available nonetheless.
Jane Fonda in Five Acts is absolutely amazing! I've watched it many times. I love to watch and listen to Jane speaks. I've read 2 of her books, namely My Life So Far and Prime Time. I want to read more of her books.
I grew up just being a little bit too young for Vietnam it ended when I was in high school officially.. Jane Fonda was a hated woman..that's all I really knew about her an was the vitriol against her. She's had to endure that for all of these years and she's persevered.I'm glad that she's cognitive that she wants to leave a legacy.. I do believe that part of that is to overcome Vietnam and what it did to her as person.
@@tranleha1495 actually Jane will be buried wherever she bought her plot. Who are you to judge her for a mistake she made 40 years ago? She didn't kill or hurt anyone. The damage was done by those who started the war. She may have gone about it all wrong but she was protesting the war that killed innocent people.
Мирия Троценко = dear Madam,/ Sir.Thank you for your polite inquiry .to which I will try to answer with same regards. 1/ if you look up the date = my comment was issued a year ago. Your last events ,in the USA,made me forget Jane( Covid,,the riots etc..) 2/I promised to some one,of her fan to stop attacking her .I will delete all my comments so as I will not be returning on these pages .to reply to questions. I promised to myself to let Jane alone,to spare her old age ...( I am of some years younger = = I am old too but younger)= She is getting old.all of us will die some day. 3/ thank your for the work mistake you used ,because you talk about killing without naming the cause,,nor the consequences..,not the whole history of the war of VietNam.Do not forget= the men who set the war are the men who won the second WW..But the Vietnamese War was a pychological war ,which you could not and can not understand.Often we ask the winners = you won the first army in the world,why Do you fear China so much= it was a psychological war.and the principal actors had quiited the stage ( FNL)Now you undergo a psychological and economical war with China..(Mr Trump did not settle the Chinese war.)He wants to fix it up or to slow your decadence down...but we are on a slope.....We ( South VietNam,Taiwan ,South Corea belong,passively to a free world....where money is imperative....(hypocrite ,naive democracies( European,American) who shut eyes to stay in peace or to do business...you need small and weak allies too.who had experienced the danger of Chinese neibourhood. Why we love the USA.? Because the Vietnamese of the South love you ,despite your abandoning us into the hands of the Communists without ammunition ,,Consequences= fall of Saigon,,emprisonment of our men for 5/10/12 years + boat peoples + 1/2 boat peoples dying on the Pacific (tempest wreck,pirate attacks...)..all this belongs to the Past.so I will cut it short....for you..If you live old ...you will see that the war is not finish( not because of Trump ) it continues on the Pacific.and we love mr Trump ,however " mad" for protecting us,whatever the reason of his aid..,we were forgotten for 7/10 years ...by " strong" democracies in Europa and the USA .It is delicate to talk or to dispute about politics/ war since we ignore many details hidden to the public .Your never ceasings manifestations and riots remind me of our stupidity of more than 50 years before today...( without looting ,stealing,and destroying historic monuments).when we understand the meaning of the war.we have lost the war and everything....it is plain to associate killing with war= everyday Vietnamese fishermen were being killed on the Pacific because They ignored that our waters were sold off.Nobody talked about this killing They have nowhere to go fishing as they had always done.0ne of The mistakes YOU did was to sent men,( mr Kennedy).With your name ,we will talk about Putin or about Obama? all this unhappy ,subtile ,violence we were witnessing is not American= you want to rewrite your history.all this makes me sad. You will understand later...when you have lost...everything...like us...too late.
Wow,Jane says it like it is,one of the greatest actresses,looking great,totally on the pulse,& what a great memory she has for her age,thank you for the upload!
This interviewer is top notch. She'd done her homework and when she asked Jane a question, Jane was "not in that moment" and the interviewer would introduce a fact and Jane was able to pick up and run with it. Had it been in inferior interviewer, Jane would have come off badly. Maybe she wasn't in the mood to talk yet again about herself when she first got there. I also appreciate that the interview got in a bit about most of her movies (something her HBO special didn't do (and it *was* here on YT -- look for it because it WILL be deleted as soon as they realize it's there).
I think Jane was 'in it' from the get go. I wish the interviewer had asked her a few less obvious questions though, as they left no room for anything we hadn't heard before. Jane is pretty forthright now so she'd go with it.
yea couldnt agree more. i hated it. only talked about 70% of her family life, and the other 30% was about her career. she deserved better than that. ofc actors nowadays have to approve the stuff their fans wanna see, and im thinking jane never really got that option bc i know how heartbreaking her past is. i have had something similar in my own life and im almost 30 and im still trying deal with my own issues for the past 15yrs. almost there. but i actually found that HBOspecial offensive to alot of her fans, including myself. she's one of my heroes and i have her movies, there were some flops i didnt like, altho other flops i did love too. regardless, shes amazing and i adore her and applaud her for all the repetitive questions she has been asked for years and having to change her answers to keep as close to home as she has now recently, just makes me love her even more. most of my heroes are older, wiser, and 3/4 of them are now dead, but i rmmbr their movies, television series, theatre and off broadway musicals, concerts and writing, directing or that jazz. but jane is like in my top 50 so whatever dude :)
She's a great lady. Love grace and frankie. She's funny but yet very passionate towards the little guy who doesn't have a voice. Much respect for her. Katherine Hepburn is smiling!!
Boy, towards the end, Jane said some very true and substantial realizations!!!! Grace and Frankie is my favorite show. Watch it over and over. Waiting for our sick Jane to recover. So very glad the writers did not have Grace and Frankie marry in the show. That would ruin the whole show. Funny for about a second. Saw a panel of the cast and writers trying to suggest new ideas for the show and thought one boy friend going through could be Richard Gere. Then for a more permanent guest, have Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma be their beach house neighbor. Play themselves. Play that they thought living by the ocean for a while would help them break their writers block. Julie and her daughter are writers of children’s books in real life. But......I can’t get to that show to tell them. If you know how to make these suggestions, please help!!!! Please tell them. Julie Andrews has a sailors mouth. That would shock Grace and Frankie! 👍🏼
What a wonderful interview! It started a little awkward but soon it started to gather steam! What an interesting woman! I learned things I never knew, and not once did the interviewer comment on her looks for her age or ask about plastic surgery! Loved it! ❤️
Eu não vou para de chorar quando ela morrer. Nossa , Jane Fonda! O mundo vai perder um dos seres humanos que mais compreende nossa civilisaçao ! Ela está com 80 anos ! Sempre interessante e o mais importante , sempre interessada nos assuntos do mundo! Seu discurso no Oscar por Caming Home em sinais é sem precedentes até hoje. Jane é única .
Je vous admire beaucoup Madame Jane Fonda. Nous sommes toutes les deux SAGITTAIRES. Nous aimons la justice ,les voyages , et quand on a quelque chose à dire, on ne mâche pas nos mots. Dans notre vie , on est toujours guider par DIEU dans les moments les plus difficiles. Nous sommes chanceuses, c'est pourquoi nous tendons toujours la main aux nécessiteux selon nos moyens. Je suis Française d'origine Vietnamienne et je vis à Paris. J'aime ces deux pays de tout mon COEUR et je les suis éternellement reconnaissante de m'avoir tant donné. LOVE FROM PARIS. TAKE CARE. ❤❤👍👍❤❤🌎
A friend of mine director Elliot Silverstein directed `Cat Ballou`. He pitched for me along with Fielder Cook to edit the DGA magazine. They lost sadly.
Sandra Shevey interviewed Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda in the Seventies. sandrasheveyinterviews RU-vid Her interview with Jon Voight re: `Coming Home` co-starring and produced by Jane Fonda ran as a cover for Metropolitan Newspapers (60 Sunday magazines) Her editors were chary about assigning it because they didn`t think Voight had a chance to win. Their money was on Warren Beatty/Robert DeNiro. But Shevey persisted, did the interview and Voila. Voight won. Almost every newspaper within the 60 newspaper syndicate ran the interview. Shevey lives in London and lectures on film worldwide. While she believes everyone has a right to an opinion about `Old Hollywood` she also feels as an emeritus interviewer who covered `Old Hollywood` from the Sixties to date that more access should be given to those who know, those of us who chronicled the system during the golden years. You can contact Sandra at sandra_shevey@yahoo.com
Andy Warhol talked me into doing a feature on Viva (real name Susan Cohen or some such moniker) We both worked at `American Girl`. He left the art department a year or so before I joined the editorial (and remained for about 6 months)
i dont know about you lot but i really love how jane's now finally just letting her hair go white, it suits her. i miss the blonde highlights, but the white-blonde actually looks amazing on her. everybody gets old one day, but jane's workn that hairdo. so luv her with lily on grace&frankie, never missed anEP
Your comment that you cry more easily now is because you are living more in the present is so profound. I’m the same. I was getting embarrassed by it but I stopped that.
I love to listen to Jane Fonda. Such an interesting person. The presenter prepared a good interview but i think her voice or maybe she was too mechanical spoilt the final result.
she was well prepared and didn't go straight into clichés and hyperbole as most american interviewers do...there was some substance to this conversation..maybe that irritated you?
The interviewer is excellent although she talks too fast and she is so fast paced she doesnt digest the interview. Fonda will have just told a great story and the interviwer brushes over it to run to the next thing. Take a chill pill. . But she should learn how counterproductive it is to be so dependent on and constantly reading from her ipad screen or whatever it is. She keeps it on her lap so she has to drop her head so low to look at it. It's like she's not there in the interview. She's there with her lap. But excellent interview. Very interesting. A contribution to oral history of Jane Fonda.
That is exactly what I think as well! I have just begun watching and realized she was reading from a tablet. To me it suggests that she is not someone who knows of Jane's work firsthand and has to keep referring to her notes. She is well-spoken but the best interviews are done by those who are intimately knowledgeable of the person they are speaking to. They might have a few bullet points but don't need a script.
The worst most embarrassing part was when she ( the interviewer) said " Spence? You mean Spencer Tracy, her father.." Her father?!!! Are you kidding me?!
@tran Leha YOU think? : ) I think Trump already did that (" end of USA" ) you said.. I say your RIGht!! : ) ENd of the OLD USA.....as we know it ) 1 step forward 2 steps back, it's the way of the world my friend , the way of the ocean, the way it is.
Tran Leha Dear Sir, or Mmadame, you are preaching to the choir , when it comes my observation of the horryfing abuse and lack of intelligent and fair distribution of the WOrld Common wealth. Greed is a human virus. What else is new? I think you are talking about what you thInk you see happening from the HUMAN MATERIAL side of this World,right? I'm talking about watching what I THINK is happening from a "higher", more Spiritual side of Creation. You know what they call the BIG picture of cause and effect on the vision board of creative energy. Besides that, the only thing I'm 100% sure off, is: It's allllllllllllllllllllllllll for "The Best"~ Peace and Kindness to you and all~
Don`t know about `Candy Darling` but Barbara Harrison (a journalist) was accused of having a crush on Jane after an interview. Jane never commented. Perhaps she should.
There has been a lot of progress with equality of opportunity issues though. However men and women today, face problems with finding jobs that pay enough to attain a lifestyle that most baby boomers were able to achieve.
I love Jane Fonda!! She really is the L.E.G.E.N.D. this interview is interesting because I got to hear new stories (which in my case is unussual :-). The interviewer is smart, only she doesnt connect on human level... after hearing some really emotional stories... she doesnt pause to take it in... to connect with Jane... anyway thanks for posting!!!
I adore Jane Fonda. She is so easy to listen to. Her body language in this interview seems SO uncomfortable though. She doesn’t seem to be able to sit comfortably or catch her breath.
