So there's something about the Jane Fonda workout that's never quite made sense to me.

I know I'm inclined to see mysteries everywhere, but I saw one here between the leg warmers

and the leotards.

Six, seven, eight. between the leg warmers and the leotards. Here's me trying to explain myself during an interview.

It is like mysterious to me, thinking about all the facets of Jane Fonda

and being like this woman at the height of her acting career,

truly, and fairly controversial political activist got into everyone's homes and like this

mastermind aerobics instructor.

It's such a weird thing. She wanted to do that and then she did it like what

straight place reach your butt out behind you feel the stretch and flex two, three, four, reach six.

In the moment right before the workout became a phenomenon,

Jean Fonda had a lot going on.

First, there was actress Jane.

And if I want to have an affair or play sex games

or do M&M's, you can't stop me.

M&M's?

As a matter of fact, I smoke pot.

That's her in 9 to 5, which came out in 1980, one in a string of critical and commercial

hits that were produced by Fonda's own production company.

Her career was going fantastically, and she was making movies that had ideas and politics,

movies that fit in snugly with another aspect of her persona.

Activist Jane.

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