Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday party was a doozy. The Oscar-winning actress spent the special day in December with some of her celebrity friends: Rosanna Arquette, Gloria Steinem and Casey Wilson were all there. Hundreds of other new friends showed up, too, waving signs and chanting, “We love you!” Fonda smiled and waved, wearing a fetching fire-engine-red coat. Then, […]

Jane Fonda says a common misconception about getting older is that few people make time for new friends. The responsibilities of life, work, offspring and “staying safe” (a nod to the current pandemic) often leave little wiggle room for fresh relationships. “I’m the opposite of this,” Fonda explained Friday morning in kicking off a special […]

Jane Fonda wants to teach you about climate change. In the fall of 2019, Fonda regularly convened with fellow climate activists—and some of her Hollywood friends—on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to call for a Green New Deal and other government action on climate change. The protests, which she called “Fire Drill Fridays,” deliberately ended in […]

I wanted Ms. Fonda, a glam Forrest Gump who has popped up on the front lines of culture, fitness, politics and Hollywood for more than half a century, to give me the lowdown on everything: From Black Panthers to the Green New Deal, from a legendary sex life to no sex life, from plastic surgery […]

“When you’re famous, you have this incredible potential platform, but how do you use it?” Fonda says. And then she realized, “I have to put myself on the line.” So she called up Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA, and told her she was going to camp out in front of the White […]

What started as a small protest transformed into a minor phenomenon in a few months. She told newbies to eat a good meal before arrest because there was no telling how long they might be held. Fonda was arrested five times — “The plastic handcuffs are much less comfortable than the old kind” — and found […]