Jane Fonda Looks Back On The Last 60 Years Of Her Career: ‘I Tried To Get Better. I Did’
05.05.2022 - 17:31
/ etcanada.com
Nearly six decades ago, a young Jane Fonda graced the cover of Glamour in 1959. Today, she returns as the magazine’s May cover star to talk about what’s changed since then, throughout her entire career, and to discuss her role on the hit Netflix show “Grace and Frankie”.
When the legendary actress now looks at her 63-year-old cover she’s reminded of “how things have changed” considering she “wasn’t famous” then.
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“In those days, magazines just put models on the cover and I was a model. And then I thought, If somebody had told me that, at almost 85-years-old, I’d still be working as much as I am and feeling as good as I do, I wouldn’t have believed them,” Fonda says. “At that time in my life, I doubted I would live past 30. Just thinking about that filled me with hope. I didn’t give up. I kept going. I tried to get better. I did.”
While Fonda, 84, continues to act, each new project continues to bring forth new discoveries about life, like her role as Grace in “Grace and Frankie”, which has taught her that “a real betrayal bond can happen.”
The hit comedy series, which is currently in it’s seventh and final season, centres around rivals Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) finding out that their husbands of 20 years want to leave them and marry each other. Fonda says that the “profound trauma” of that situation “questions your very identity.”
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“Being able to show that two women who were in their early 70s when that [happened.] I mean, what the hell do you do? How do