On getting drunk to film Barbarella, competing with Katharine Hepburn, dealing with Godard’s bullshit, and quitting Book Club movies.
To that point, Fonda recalled replacing Richard Dreyfuss in— “He dropped out because he decided he liked nuclear energy or something” — and putting together“I became friends with a woman who organized office workers, and she’d tell me stories about what secretaries had to put up with: wage theft, sexual harassment. I said, ‘Oh my God, I better make a movie about this.’” Originally, the script was a “really dark” comedy. But shortly thereafter, she saw Lily Tomlin in a play, and “I fell in love.
again. But I don’t want to do that anymore. I don’t know what’s coming next, except that I don’t want to do any more movies that don’t challenge me as an actor. I want to be challenged. And I want to play something really complicated.” Any ideas on what might be next? “No,” she said. “I’m too busy trying to fight the climate crisis.” Among many other things she’s previously spoken about at length via her, she suggested we “arrest and jail the men — they’re all men” responsible for the current crisis. Later, she added that “there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism or patriarchy. So when I say that I’m fighting the climate crisis, I also feel that I’m fighting patriarchy and racism.
While answering a woman’s question about how to break into the industry, Fonda was characteristically blunt. “Don’t let the fuckers get you!” she said. “You’ve gotta be strong and stand up to them, but do it in a diplomatic way. You don’t want to make enemies. It’s all about relationships. That’s the big mistake I made. I never built relationships.] is great at building relationships. I don’t think he really likes me, but he’s very diplomatic.
The reason Hepburn was “so interesting,” said Fonda, was that “she wanted me to keep talking about her after she was dead, and I talk about her all the time.” At the end of the affectionate anecdote, Fonda added a surprising aside: “She didn’t like me,” she said. “All three of us were nominated for Oscars, and I didn’t win, and they did.
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