Jane Fonda is someone who was well known for their abilities on the silver screen. She is also known as an activist and continues to hold onto that down to this day.
Recently, Jane Fonda was awarded with the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. Many people were in attendance who were in the know, including some very familiar names, such as Selena Gomez and Mickey Madison.
When it comes to having a political opinion, Jane Fonda is somebody who stands on her own. She supported the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers in the 1960s, and she was a political activist who protested the Vietnam War. She even earned the name, Hanoi Jane.
Now that she is 87 and has been given a great award, she decided to use it as a platform to talk about politics again. At first, she said that the award meant the world to her.
She went on to say: “Thank you SAG AFTRA. Your enthusiasm makes this seem less like a late twilight of my life, and more like a go girl, kick a**. Which is good because I’m not done.”
She then went on to get on a political soapbox and although she never referred directly to Donald Trump, she did mention Sebastian Stan, who portrayed him in ‘The Apprentice’ from 2024.
In her speech, she defended wokeness, saying: “Empathy is not weak or ‘woke.’ And, by the way, ‘woke’ just means you give a d**n about other people.
“A whole lot of people are going to be hurt by what’s happening, by what’s coming our way. We are going to need a big tent to resist what’s coming at us.
“And even if they are of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts, and welcome them into our tent. Because we are gonna need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us.
“I retired for 15 years and then I came back at 65 which is not usual, and then I made one of my most successful movies in my 80s. And probably in my 90s I’ll be doing my own stunts in an action movie.
“We get to open people’s minds to new ideas, take them beyond what they understand of the world and help them laugh when things are tough, like now.
“And for a woman like me who grew up in the ’40s and ’50s when women weren’t supposed to have opinions and get angry, acting gave me a chance to play angry women with opinions, which, you know, is a bit of a stretch for me.”
