Activism. Jane Fonda, arrested for the third time during a protest against the climate crisis
Hollywood: the curious fate of the millions that Jane Fonda made with aerobics in the 80s
A year ago she was arrested for demonstrating in front of the Washington Capitol against climate change.
"Nothing has changed. Every 25 years they arrest Jane Fonda," said Donald Trump.
But since that October 2019 something has changed.
Trump lost the elections and Jane Fonda feels reborn thanks to her new civil commitment that she tells in the book
Let's save our future!
Fonda has lived through three key stages in her life so far, one for each of her husbands: with
Roger Vadim
the sexual liberation of the 60s, with
Tom Hayden
the civil activism of the 70s and with tycoon
Ted Turner
the ease of the 90s . And now?
Converted to the Christian faith, feminism and ecology, she assures that she has married herself.
The actress, after being arrested in Washington in October 2019.
You were an icon of the protests against the Vietnam War and now you are committed to ecology, it is very nice to put your face to promote those values and, as I am almost 83 years old, my arrest has caused a lot of interest in people.
Many have thought, 'if she can do it, maybe I can too'.
In addition, civil disobedience has always changed history. It is an icon not only of cinema, but also of aerobics and now it has landed in Tik Tok, How has its relationship with the body changed? The most important thing is to have a good posture, I I keep straight.
If I walk hunched over I look old, if I sit up straight I feel young and strong. I see that on your desk you have the photo of when you were arrested in 1970, with your fist raised.
Is she still that girl? I keep the defiant spirit.
Also, it's a great photo, luckily there was good light.
Compared to the protests against the war in Vietnam or Iraq, what is different about the current ecological battle?
Well now the handcuffs are plastic, everything is plastic!
Seriously: in the Vietnam War there was a political enemy, Nixon, and there was information to bring to light about that war because it was not how it was being told.
Today the change must start from us, from our way of life, not only from what we ask a politician. Readings have always played an important role in their activism.
Her environmentalism is inspired by
On fire
by Naomi Klein.
Do you also read novels? Not many.
The last one I have read is
The Cry of the Woods
, by Richard Powers, about the relationship between humans and trees.
We underestimate the link between the climate crisis and the health crisis.
Children are the most affected by contamination, even in utero.
Pro-life movements should fight fossil fuels. She has had three husbands and three divorces.
She likes marriage, but she also likes living alone.
What stands out about being married and what about not? It's always good to have someone by your side.
You don't have to get married, but I'm traditional.
My three husbands were smart and taught me a lot, but as a single now I don't have to worry about anyone, I can do whatever I want.
I do more things now than before. Do you regret the image of the North Vietnamese cannon that turned you into Hanoi Jane?
Or about the erotic games that Vadim wanted? What I regret is not being a better mother. You lost yours very soon, no one could teach you.
Yes, but you can learn.
Now I know what it means to be a good parent: when you come back from work and dedicate yourself 100% to your children.
We have to work to become better people, it is as if we were our own parents;
we grow ourselves and we make others grow.
I have been a good mother to myself, but afterwards. Was it precocious in sex? I made you believe, as teenagers do, that I had already experienced when it was not true, I did not want to feel left out. Which character do you most identify with?
That of
The Dollmaker
, an illiterate girl from Kentucky, a woman of deep faith.
She is the character that marked me the most. You were an atheist, then you became a Christian and divorced your last husband. I lived in Georgia, everyone went to church, I wanted to understand why, but I did not feel that intimate presence in my life, he was afraid of privacy, for family reasons.
As the crisis deepened, I said to myself, "If I'm in so much pain, God wants it to happen."
We were born to become authentic people and when it happens you feel the presence of a higher being, it frees you from what you are a slave to.
I had an eating disorder, for others it is alcohol, sex or shopping.
That feeling is gone, I feel complete.
If I pray, I turn to that universal presence that makes me feel like a complete person, something sacred, but it is not religion, it is the result of religious reading, but also of philosophy, therapy, Buddhism and the people who make you grow. Tell me one person who influenced you in that regard. Eve Ensler, author of
The Vagina Monologues
.
When I read it I was still living with Ted Turner and they asked me to perform one of the monologues in Atlanta, the one called
Pussy
.
I replied: "In Atlanta it is quite difficult for me to be Hanoi Jane and much more to say 'cunt'".
How can you be the symbol of feminism in an undemocratic marriage?
Then I went to see all the monologues on Broadway.
My feminism went from my head and theory to my body and by making that text my own I became a symbol of feminism.
I'm friends with Eve, we talked about how to make a sequel to Barbarella, who is a very feminist character.
But I'm not old anymore!
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