Cannes (France) (EFE).- Jane Fonda assured today at the Cannes Film Festival that she only wants to do roles that challenge her as an actress, although she does not know exactly what they would be, since she does not have time to think about it because she is “busy fighting the climate crisis”, which is also linked to racism and patriarchy.
Invited to have a meeting with the public at the 76th edition of the Festival, Fonda stressed that there are still reasons to have hope for humanity, even though we only have 6 or 7 years to halve the use of fossil fuels.
And regarding those responsible for those industries, she sent a message without mincing words, as is her habit: “we have to arrest those men.”
Jane Fonda’s Only Project: Confronting the Climate Crisis
Fonda, with a long career of activism, explained that she currently has “no projects except confronting the climate crisis” and that, given that a “very important” presidential election is coming up in the United States, the next year and a half will only be “focused on ” in that.
Through this fight, he said, he also fights “racism” and “patriarchy”, because they are factors directly involved in the climate crisis, whose roots come from thinking of the world hierarchically, with “white men” at the top of the ladder. pyramid.
The 85-year-old actress and daughter of the interpreter Henry Fonda, reviewed in Cannes some of the most significant roles of her career, such as “Barbarella” in 1968, about which she shared amusing anecdotes about the filming of the scenes in which appears flying.
“I thought we were doomed to infertility,” he joked about the structure to keep the actors on the air.
“There’s a striptease that the director promised would be covered in the credits and it wasn’t. But we are no longer married, ”he also mentioned about the French film Roger Vadim.
Bree Daniels and the feminist side of Fonda
Fonda told how Bree Daniels, the prostitute she plays in “Klute” (1971), helped her become a true “feminist” when, in the scene where she is going to be attacked by the murderer in the film, she thought ” in all the women who had been beaten and killed by men” and began to cry.
They were tears of sadness, she said, but she also remembers being happy because she was “understanding what feminism is.” Later, watching the play “The Vagina Monologues” (by Eve Ensler) she felt that she really happened to be a “feminist personified”.
“If you’re in a marriage that’s not really authentic where you can’t really be you, you can be a feminist theoretically but you can’t be a feminist personified,” said Fonda, who was married three times.
The conversation did not leave aside his companions and screen companions, such as Robert Redford. “I was in love with him, I made four films and in three I was in love with him,” she confessed, although Redfor – whom she still considers a good person despite having “a problem with women” – “was always in a bad mood” and she he always thought it was his fault.
“I finally knew that I had matured (in the fourth film) because when I would arrive on the set three hours late and I was in a bad mood, I knew it was not my fault,” the always scathing actress joked.
Sober Jean-Luc Godard
Despite being in Cannes, Fonda was also not shy when asked about one of the sacred figures of French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard: “he was a great filmmaker, I take my hat off, but as a man? Sorry no”.
Among all her screen partners, Fonda was clear when choosing the best. “Lily Tomlin is my favorite man to work with on movies,” she said of her co-star in the “Grace and Frankie” series, among other productions.
Fonda also elaborated on her role as an activist, which is something that gave her life a meaning that Hollywood never gave her, a world of which she says she doesn’t really feel a part.
Her support for the “#MeToo” movement, the fact that she is not proud of having had cosmetic surgery at one point in her life, and her current routine of eating healthy, playing sports, staying curious, and sleeping a lot were some of the other highlights. highlights of the talk at the Palacio de Festivales.