Jane Fonda: The GOAT (FBF)

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 166.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hope you enjoy this throwback episode! Originally aired on January 31, 2023. Jane Fonda joins Call Her Daddy to offer her invaluable advice and wisdom. Jane talks about the importance of female friendship and reflects on the difficult times in her life that friendship helped her overcome. She speaks candidly about the pressure of being cast as the “girl next door" and the objectification that led to a 20 year battle with bulimia. Jane was married and divorced three times and now recognizes a pattern within those relationships. She worked hard to please her husbands and always prioritized their needs above her own. Jane admits she didn’t figure life out until she reached her 60’s, when her understanding of love, relationships and feminism began to shift. Jane Fonda stars in 80 For Brady which is in theaters February 3rd! You can get your tickets here: https://www.80forbrady.com/ This episode includes discussion of eating disorders. Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how and when you’ll listen. For resources on these topics, visit spotify.com/resources.

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0:00.0	What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.
0:11.5	Jane Fonda, welcome to Call Her Daddy.
0:14.2	Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here.
0:16.5	I'm so happy that you're here. Daddy Gang, Jane is a two-time Academy award-winning actress,
0:23.2	and her meaningful work in activism has spanned decades. Jane, I am completely honored to be
0:31.3	sitting across from you today. Thank you very much. Truly, truly. I need you to know that Grace
0:37.0	and Frankie has been my comfort show for the past few years.
0:42.3	I'm obsessed. It's charming. It's hilarious. And you are good friends with your co-star, Lily Tomlin.
0:49.4	You guys have been friends for almost 40 some years. Yes.
0:53.5	Can you give some advice on how to maintain
0:57.8	friendships, even if someone is going through, let's say, a situation that's very different from
1:03.0	their friend and they're not completely on the same pages? Like, how are we maintaining friendships?
1:07.7	That's a good question, especially as you get older and your life gets busy and everything.
1:13.0	If you want to maintain a friendship, you have to be intentional. You really have to work at it.
1:18.8	You know, for example, last night I had dinner with a young Canadian film director, TV director.
1:26.4	She directed a couple of Grace and Frankie episodes. And
1:30.0	when she finished her last episode on Grace and Frankie, we said let's maintain our friendship.
1:36.3	Let's work at it. Let's be intentional. Yeah, I agree with that. I do think there's something about
1:43.0	it's hard sometimes if one person's putting in more work than the other. And maybe I think sometimes we get confused if that means it's for a lack of trying on the other person's side. But I don't know if you've had this experience. But sometimes it really just means that person's going through something, and sometimes it has to be
2:00.9	uneven.
2:01.5	Sometimes one person's going to put in a little bit more work.
2:04.0	Sometimes the other friend's going to put in more work.
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