The Sala Buñuel, in the Palais des Festivals, where the Cannes Film Festival takes place, was not as crowded as at the meeting Rendez vous with Jane Fonda. At 85 she looks, as always, gorgeous. Other octogenarians have passed this way before –Harrison FordMartin Scorsese or Michael Douglas, who is 78 years old, but none dazzled as much as the star of inglorious return.
And that he forgot his headphones… “I forgot them, so speak up,” he told the accredited audience of the Festival.
Fonda covered his film career, which gave him two Oscars, for the aforementioned inglorious returnand before, of The past condemns me (Klute)both in the 1970s, alternating with his private life and his left-wing political activism, in a country like his, which usually doesn’t welcome such thinking.
And of course she talked about the main men that she’s acted with, like Robert Redford and Alain Delon.
The actress has stated that there are no secrets to making her look so good. “It’s not that I’m proud that I went under the knife. Last night I slept 13 hours, I eat well, I’m curious about everything, I walk. And most importantly, now I try not to look like anyone.
Fonda, whose latest film, the comedy when they want more, is still on the bill in Argentina, recalled one of his phrases, on the world in perennial revolution. “I should also have said that art is in constant revolution. The actors themselves bring to life all kinds of characters, which in itself is a constant revolution,” he corrected himself.
Robert Redford and Alain Delon
“Robert Redford? He’s three hours late and he’s angry, but he’s a good guy. He didn’t like kissing anyway and I’ll just say he has a problem with women.” Of Alain Delon he assured that he was “one of the most wonderful people I have ever met”, of the aforementioned Michael Douglas he was ambiguous (“he always cared about public relations before friendship, that’s why he lasted so long in business” .
But Jean-Luc Godard was directly annihilated: “He was a great director and a lousy person,” he said of the one who directed him in Everything is going well (1972), together with Yves Montand. And he said his favorite filming partner is Lily Tomlin, who he first worked with. How to get rid of your boss and you can see them, now, in the series Grace and Frankie.
From Barbarella (1968), directed by Roger Vadim, her first husband, confessed that she filmed the famous nude scene after drinking large quantities of vodka – “in truth, it is a wide shot of an actress suffering from an enormous hangover trying to fix it – and recalled that if he had moved here to France at the time, it was “to escape my father’s (Henry Fonda) shadow.
She said her social activism started “in 1970, when I started hearing about the Vietnam War, stories I couldn’t believe. I lived in Paris with Roger Vadim and returned to the United States, so that I could protest.”
She said dance of illusionsby Sydney Pollack (1969) shot it because “my mother committed suicide, something my character was also trying to do”, and Klute, by Alan J. Pakula, said it was the film that got him into social engagement. “To prepare for the character, I spent a week living with prostitutes, and I realized that all of them had been abused as children. That’s when I became an activist and a feminist. And, at 34, I felt like I was starting to be a person.”
No movies for now
He has, for now, no project on the way to the cinema, “because I’m completely focused on the fight against climate change,” he apologized. “We have about six years to drastically reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. There would be no global warming without racism and patriarchy. Activism has changed my life. When I was shooting for the last few years, I was raising more money than anything else, because I never felt like a part of Hollywood, nor did I care much about my career.
And if he doesn’t make films or series, he will be dedicated to promoting Democrats in the next election campaign. “It’s hard for the left to have good leaders, and without them you can’t come to power. You have to go out and knock on doors and explain to people that public health and education benefit all of us. The real change that must be made by activism is learning to dialogue with those who have a different opinion”.
Finally, regarding her feminism, she called it “cerebral”. Until one day she said, “I saw The monologues of the vaginaand there I felt that my body and not just my brain was feminist”.
Source: Clarin
