Still Reinventing At 80, Jane Fonda Says, 'I Feel Better Than I Ever Have'
The actress, activist and fitness icon is the subject of the documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. Married three times, she says, "It took me into my 60s and 70s to begin to say: I deserve respect."
About 20 years ago, to mark her 60th birthday, Jane Fonda asked for her daughter's help in creating a very short video about her life. Her daughter suggested, "Why don't you just get a chameleon to crawl across the screen?"
"Ouch," Fonda says, recalling the conversation. "She knew what buttons to push and she wasn't wrong."
Fonda has lived many lives. From starlet, to fitness guru, to Vietnam protester — now 80, she's a comedic actress, securing roles at an age when many in Hollywood would have left the screen.
Filmmaker Susan Lacy tells Fonda's story in a new HBO documentary called The first four acts are organized around the men in Fonda's life — her father,
