Jane Fonda "Finds Her Authentic Voice" in Documentary 'Jane Fonda in Five Acts' | Sundance 2018 - video Dailymotion

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Susan Lacy directs.

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00:00Do you remember in the film when Jane says,

00:01I was so old at 20, I saw no future?

00:05Can you believe this?

00:06This is a transition.

00:07I feel so much younger now when I'm 80

00:09than I did when I was 20.

00:16Jane Bond in Five Acts traces Jane's life

00:19from Hollywood royalty through a difficult father,

00:23three husbands, around whom she defined her life

00:27until she realized she didn't need to do that anymore

00:30and she found her authentic voice.

00:32You know, so many people say,

00:33where do you get your energy?

00:34Why are you still optimistic?

00:35And I think part of it has to do with the fact

00:38that I was somebody that had no political consciousness.

00:42I led a rather hedonistic, vapid life, frankly.

00:48And one of the things that the movie does

00:49is it shows how I transitioned

00:52and why I transitioned from that into activism,

00:57how that changed my work as an actress.

00:59So I think it allows people who, you know,

01:02who aren't politically active

01:06or who don't necessarily agree with me

01:08to see themselves in a trajectory.

01:11I know the depth to which people can change.

01:14And so I've remained optimistic

01:16because of my own experiences.

01:17Knowing what you know now at the fifth act in life,

01:21what advice would you go back and give young Jane,

01:25who's just in her first act?

01:29Don't give up.

01:31You know, you may see no future

01:33and be completely hopeless right now,

01:35but just keep pushing and prevail

01:38and keep moving forward.

01:41And also know that no is a complete sentence.

01:45I never knew how to say no.

01:47Took me 80 years.

01:49And in a career as expansive as Jane's,

01:51how did you know what to focus on?

01:54Well, I do a lot of research.

01:56Of course, I did read her book.

01:58But I was telling a very specific story.

02:02And of course, I had to choose those things

02:05that I felt would define that story the best.

02:09So of course, there are things

02:10that are not in the documentary.

02:13But I think I hit the points that I think Jane would agree,

02:16that I think shaped her in these various lives

02:21that she's lived.

02:22Jane's been many different Janes,

02:24that propelled her in each of these lives

02:28to do what she did and to finally become,

02:33as you said, a fully realized person.

02:36So weird sitting through discussions about myself.

02:39I know.

02:39It must be weird.

02:40But it's true.

02:46I feel like a开心.

02:47But it's not that great.

02:47I don't know.

02:48It's not.

02:49I know.

02:50It must be weird.

02:51But I should have learned.

02:51I've learned.

02:52I've learned about it.

02:53I've learned about it.

02:53But I'm still going to learn about it.

02:54So, anyway.

02:54Listen approach.

02:55And come back.

02:55You have learned about it.

02:56Only a few years later.

02:57It must be weird.

02:58I know.

02:58No idea.

02:59There are some amazing things that I really think

03:00about it.

03:00Don't know.

03:00You have learned about it.

03:01I don't know.

03:02Just do that.

03:02And you have learned about it.

03:03I keep on it.

03:04My favorite.

03:05It must have been one good thing.

03:06I'm not a good thing.

Jane Fonda "Finds Her Authentic Voice" in Documentary 'Jane Fonda in Five Acts' | Sundance 2018

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