A feisty Jane Fonda on Thursday spoke out about her opposition to the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, her aversion to Donald Trump, and the eerie desire that “tech bros, oligarchs and billionaires” have for longevity, “while they’re killing the rest of us,” as she put it.
Fonda, 88, took questions from a small group of journalists prior to being honored at the DVF Awards charity gala held on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg to honor extraordinary women. The event’s other honorees were the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley; American photojournalist Lynsey Addario; Kenyan social entrepreneur Wawira Njiru and France’s feminist icon Gisèle Pelicot.
Though the bulk of the conversation with Fonda was about politics, her activism and the tyranny of tech bros, the two-time Oscar winner also provided an update on her career as an actress.
“The Correspondent,” Lionsgate’s film adaptation of Virginia Evans’ bestselling novel about a retired lawyer who uses letter-writing to impose order on a complicated world, is now in final stages of pre-production, she said. Fonda hopes cameras will start rolling in January, though “it depends on the director.” And she has other projects percolating: “I just can’t mention them.”
