The actress and activist premieres a new film and says she has discovered one of the keys to happiness: friendship. We find out who she shares confidences with and her fight for the climate
At 85 years, Jane Fonda wanted to say that she has reached "the happiest chapter of her life". The legendary actress and activist, with her schedule still full of projects, continues to celebrate the passage of time: “Getting old is not something to fear. Life improves with age, ”she insists in an interview with the magazine where she shares her reflections.
Jane Fonda, who has just overcome Hodgkin's lymphoma, is promoting her film 'Book Club: Now Italy', and has four more titles in the pipeline. In this sequel to the 2018 original, she reinforces one of her keys to being well: friends, as well as enjoying herself at all times. In this comedy, four senior women: Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, as well as Fonda, discover how their perspective on life is transformed after reading '50 Shades of Grey.
The actress says she found true friendship on the set: “When I was younger, women were supposed to be a bit mischievous, and for that reason, now having four stars working together wasn't going to work out because we were going to compete, and that's not true. We are friends and we help each other.”
She rebels against ageism, and age discrimination and lists the advantages of getting older: "If something bad happens to you, you think: 'That's happened before and I'm fine, so I'll get over it'". And she compares life to a boat: "I spent a lot of time in a canoe without a paddle, dragged by the current, but as I got older, I learned to put a paddle in the water and steer." In addition to the mental health problems she suffered from in her youth, she seems to allude to her father, Henry Fonda, an octogenarian in "Golden Pool," in which she also starred.
The interpreter of the series 'Grace and Frankie' acknowledges that in her life "there have also been tragedies and more difficult situations, but I have always resisted in the face of them, I have never succumbed." This emotional strength is what seems to make her eternal and pleasing in the eyes of all, even those who detract from her due to her social militancy. In a survey she commissioned herself, she confirmed that nearly 90 percent of Americans liked her.
In addition to acting, fighting against climate change is another of the motors of her life, which she currently maintains active with initiatives such as 'Fire Drill Friday' or the 'Jane Fonda Climate PAC'. Since she was young she has denounced the inaction of governments, and for this, she has been arrested several times.
“I get very depressed because I read the science and I know what is happening, it is urgent and it could become catastrophic. It's just inconceivable for me not to do everything I can,' she laments to 'People'. Jane Fonda says that she relaxes in the countryside and spends as much time as possible in the company of her three grandchildren, something that "just calms me down."
