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Awards Chatter

Jane Fonda - 'Grace and Frankie'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The 78-year-old legend opens up about her Netflix comedy ("the second season is way better than the first"), her upcoming reunion with Robert Redford and "what really happened in Hanoi" 44 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

0:43.4

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and on this episode it was my great honor and privilege

0:47.5

to be joined by Bonifide Hollywood Royalty, the great Jane Fonda.

0:52.2

She's of course the daughter of the actor Henry Fonda, the sister of the actor Peter Fonda,

0:57.0

the aunt of the actress Bridget Fonda, the mother of the actor Troy Garrity,

1:01.0

and one of the greatest actresses of all time, perhaps with the possible

1:05.6

exception of Merrill Street, the greatest alive today.

1:08.8

I sat down with the 78-year-old on the Paramount Pictures lot, where she had just participated in the first

1:13.8

read-through for Netflix's third season of Grace and Frankie a very funny show in

1:18.2

which she and Lily Tomlin play unlikely best friends and for which she could land a best actress in a comedy series

1:24.5

Emmy nomination this July. Over the course of our conversation we talk about how she

1:29.0

overcame a tremendous lack of confidence as a child to get into acting in the first place, how she wound up

1:34.8

making her film debut in 1960 and breaking out of romantic comedy parts and into social issue

1:40.6

movies like Clute and coming home. She won Best Actress Oscars for both.

1:44.8

As well as they shoot horses don't they, fun with Dick and Jane, the China Syndrome, and 9 to 5, among many others.

1:51.5

We also delve into the personal healing that she and her father

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