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How Jane Fonda’s Feminism Evolved With Her Films: ‘I’m Proud of Myself That I Didn’t Settle’
Ahead of her SAG Life Achievement Award, Jane Fonda looks back on the evolution of her career, her activism and her feminism.
Five years after the end of the Vietnam war, Fonda won a second Oscar for playing a conservative military wife who falls for a paraplegic veteran in Hal Ashby’s “Coming Home.” The character’s transformation and growth would mirror her own, in that it wasn’t expected — or even intended — but an inevitable result of forces bigger than herself. I had a core of courage and empathy and decency, but I didn’t know who I was or what I was supposed to be, and as a result, I kept marrying men that I thought would give me the answer.” Fonda says that enlightenment has come with a growing acceptance of her status as a role model. She can now measure that impact in a forthcoming spate of remakes of her films, including Jennifer Aniston’s planned reimagining of “9 to 5” and a “Barbarella” update starring and executive produced by Sydney Sweeney.
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