Jane Fonda says she wasn’t acknowledged in jail — till she talked about Jennifer Lopez.
Regardless of her Oscar-winning profession and historical past of becoming a member of political protests, Fonda not too long ago shared on Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s podcast, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” that no person throughout her 2019 stint behind bars in Washington, D.C., even knew who she was.
The actor had spent one night time in jail after collaborating in a local weather change protest. (Danson was additionally arrested alongside Fonda for being part of the protest.)
“I ended up being put some place else with a lot of other prisoners, Black women, and it was really interesting,” Fonda instructed Danson on the podcast episode, which was launched on Wednesday. “They could have cared less who I was. They had far more important things to think about — and none of them had seen any of my movies.”
“Oh, Jennifer Lopez, yeah — they had seen ‘Monster-in-Law,’” she continued. “I pulled that card and they were mildly impressed, but not really. They went right back and talked about what they were dealing with, which was survival issues. It was an eye-opener, I tell you.”
Fonda starred within the 2005 comedy “Monster-in-Law” as a rich matriarch decided to maintain Lopez’s character from marrying into the household.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Fonda mirrored on the arrest and famous how her actuality was totally different from these she was in jail with, saying, “We’re white and we’re famous, and we will never really know what it’s like to be Black in this country or brown.”
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She additionally mentioned how her fame allowed her to have sure advantages whereas arrested, together with a guard “stationed outside” her cell whereas she heard “nothing but screams” coming from “down the hall” from far much less privileged inmates, who she assumed had been struggling “psychotic breaks.”
“Guys are screaming and screaming and banging the doors, and you realize, ‘They should be in another kind of place,’ like a mental health place,” Fonda stated. “They shouldn’t be in jail. I was the only white person there.”
Fonda was arrested 5 occasions on the local weather change protest in Washington.
Regardless of this, the 86-year-old stated on the podcast that being arrested for protesting “still matters” and that there’s “something very liberating about engaging in civil disobedience” to combat for “your deepest values.”
