00:00We get into a fight. I slap her and then she slaps me back.
00:05But she had a diamond ring on, so when she slapped me, it cut me here.
00:11Oh, that was a fun scene. Jennifer Lopez. We actually are friends and like each other.
00:19Hi there. Jane Fonda here with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:23I'm going to be sharing some stories involved with my most memorable movie lines.
00:30Are you ready?
00:38I'm not such a bad guy.
00:41You're a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.
00:43Well, I said that in the film 9 to 5 when I was fantasizing what I'd like to do to my boss, played by Dabney Coleman.
00:53It was so much fun. Dabney was the best bad boss in the whole world.
00:58And I got to spin a gun and threaten him with it.
01:05If anybody's going to sit on Ryan Gosling's face, it's going to be me.
01:09That was the very first episode of Grace and Frankie.
01:15I have just found out from my husband that he is leaving me to get married to his law partner, who is Lily Tomlin's husband.
01:26As I'm about to move out of the house, a FedEx delivery man delivers a box that has a chair in it with Ryan Gosling's face on it.
01:37It was ordered by my husband, and I take it and bring it to the beach house where I say to Lily Tomlin, Frankie, if anybody's going to sit on Ryan Gosling's face, it's going to be me.
01:50That sounds like a Barbarella line.
02:00You see, I'm on the planet of evil where they don't make love anymore.
02:05In fact, what we do is we take a pill and then touch fingertips.
02:10And when you orgasm, your hair stands on end.
02:14I don't know if you've seen Barbarella, but it's a nice scene.
02:17I think since Barbarella was an evolved woman coming from an evolved planet, that she would have taught the people on the evil planet how to make love.
02:27But really make love instead of vice versa.
02:31Oh!
02:33Oh my God!
02:34Viola, I'm so sorry.
02:35I didn't mean to.
02:37You don't go and slap somebody and then apologize.
02:40Get some backbone.
02:42Oh, that was a fun scene.
02:44That was monster-in-law.
02:46I'm the mother-in-law of Jennifer Lopez, who's going to get married to my son.
02:52And she comes into my room.
02:54I've gotten ready for the wedding.
02:55And, of course, I'm dressed like a bride.
02:59Oedipus, anyone.
03:01And we get into a fight.
03:03I slap her and then she slaps me back.
03:07But she had a diamond ring on.
03:09So when she slapped me, it cut me here.
03:13So we had a nice little fight.
03:15We actually are friends and like each other.
03:18But it got a big, big laugh in the theater, the two of us slapping each other.
03:23Mr. Goodell, you lied to me last night.
03:25We're not going to leave here until you tell us what happened at the plant.
03:28China Syndrome, yes.
03:29I play a reporter.
03:31She is at the plant at the time when there's a plant meltdown.
03:36And the whole place shook.
03:37And I want to get to the bottom of it.
03:40And it's a movie that changed a lot of people's minds about nuclear energy.
03:46And I'm really proud of it with Michael Douglas, who produced.
03:51Flat back, sweet legs.
03:52Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
03:55Well, that sounds like a workout video.
03:59That was when I used to do the Jane Fonda workout on videos, which were very big sellers.
04:06I'm sorry I'm not there.
04:08I was about to be put into a paddy wagon to be taken to jail.
04:15And I had handcuffs on, which these days are white plastic, but they hurt.
04:20And I had received an award.
04:23And I wasn't at the awards ceremony.
04:28I was being arrested.
04:29And so I think I held my hands up to the camera with my handcuffs on and said,
04:34I'm sorry I'm not there.
04:37Apparently it was very well received during the ceremony.
04:44I want to be your friend.
04:47Oh, I want to be your friend.
04:50And that's a scene from On Golden Pond, which I produced with Bruce Gilbert.
04:57And I'm trying to get my father to open up to me.
05:03And he's in a boat where he's been fishing.
05:06And I walk way down in the water and tell him that I want to be his friend.
05:11And it was a very, very intense and emotional scene for me to play with my father.
05:17It was the first and only time I've ever worked with my father.
05:19My father was a favorite of mine, a really important movie for me.
05:24And he died five months after it came out.
05:26So it was really special, you know.
05:29I never would have dared say to my father in real life, I want to be your friend.
05:36But I did want to be his friend.
05:38And his character of Norman, that was kind of like he was.
05:43And I think he did think I was fat.
05:44And so there was a lot of our real relationship in that movie.
05:50And it was cathartic.
05:51Historically in my career, 60 years long career, I've tended to like characters who started off not very strong.
05:59Women who were not empowered and were maybe confused and too male dependent or something.
06:06And who in the course of the movie, they go through transitions and become strong women.
06:13That's something that's always appealed to me.
06:16Eventually in doing that, you then end up leaving your own skin and entering another woman's skin and bringing it alive.
06:24And that's what's exciting about acting, whether it's theater or movies.
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