Jane Fund.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesJane Fund gave a strong speech by accepting the life reward on the achievement on 2025. The screen of the screen screen.
Fonda, 87, entered the stage on Sunday, February 2nd, held in the Shina Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles after handing him honor Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
“Alas. That means the world to me. I’ll talk loudly. Thanks sag-up. And your enthusiasm makes this like the dusk of my life and more as “Go Girl Kick Ass!” What is good because I’m not done, “an actress, who is jewelry of the adapted dress of Armani and Pomellato, has started her speech in a tumultuous applause.” I had a really strange career – completely, not as my agents at that table will tell you, completely non -strataian . I retired for a few years and then came back to 65, which is not common, and then I made one of my most successful films in the 80s and I will probably do my cascades in the action movie in the 90s. Have you ever heard the phrase: “It’s okay to be late flowering until you miss the flower show”? I flourished late. This is a floral show. “
She continued, “I love acting. We open the opinion of people with new ideas, we take them beyond what they understand about the world and help them laugh when things are difficult, as they are now. And for a woman like me, who grew up in the 40s and 50s, when women were not to have opinions and got angry, acting gave me the opportunity to play angry women with opinions -which you know is a little and stretched for me. I am a great believer in the union. They have our backs, bring us to the community and give us power. The community means power. And this is really important at the moment when the power of workers and community is weakened. But sag-afftra is different from most other unions because we, workers, actors, do not produce anything tangible. What we create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so deep that we can touch their souls. We know why they do what they do, we know their joy and their pain. “
The Fund then briefly interrupted the announcer on the speakers, to which she replied, “And I can evoke voices!”
Then she concluded her speech by sharing more what it means to have “empathy” as an actor, saying to the audience, “We need to drill deeply, we need to know if a young woman cuts or a sex worker, there is a good chance that as a young girl she was sexually abused or killed. … And I am sure that many of you have played abusers and misogynists, and you can know quite a bit that he probably called them a weakness and called them weakly, called them, to loser or cats. And while you can hate the behavior of your character and compassionate with a traumatized person you play, don’t you? .
Earlier this month, the Fund posted a statement in which she expressed gratitude for acknowledged for the prestigious award.
“I am deeply honored and humiliated by this year’s SAG Life Achievement Sag Award winner,” 9 to 5 Star said in response to the announcement. “Sag-afftra is tirelessly working to protect the working workers and ensure that the members of the union are treated in all areas in all areas, and I am proud to be a member while continuing to work to protect generations of the performers who come.”
SAG-ACTRES ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN Federation of Television and Radio artists) Fr -a She also addressed the decision to respect the fund, marking it with a pioneer of the entertainment industry.
“Jane Fund is Trailblazer and an extraordinary talent – a dynamic force that shaped the landscape of fun, advocating and culture with unwavering passion,” Drescher shared in a statement. “We respect Jane not only because of her artistic splendor, but also because of the deep legacy of the activism and empowerment she created.”
Fonda’s career has lasted more than six decades, making Sag Honor well deserved, adding her long list of recognitions that include two Oscars, Emmy, seven Golden Globes and two Bafta awards. Her talents included various media, including TV (HBO Line and Netflix’s Grace and Frankie) and the movie (1968. Barbarella, 1969 They shoot horses, right?1978 Arrival home and 1980s 9 to 5).
In addition to its artistic achievements, the Fund was a vocal advocate of social causes such as gender equality, environmental justice and civil rights since the 1960s, in 1984, defeated the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee and founded the Women’s Media Center in 2005. Later, she launched Jane Fund Climate Pac 2022 in the fight against the climate crisis and was repeatedly arrested on behalf of a peaceful protest and social justice.
In 2022, she celebrated her 85th birthday by raising $ 1 million for her non -profit organization, the Georgia campaign for adolescent power and potential, which is focused on teenage pregnancy and the health of adolescents.
During the interview in April 2018 with Harvard Business ReviewThe Fund has opened up about its decision to deal with acting and shared that motherhood had implanted a career into a non -profit sector. (The actress welcomed her daughter Vanessa with her first husband Roger I pull out and son Troy with ex -husband Tom Hayden. Exes also share daughter Mary Luana Williams, who was adopted in the 1980s)
“I became an actress because I didn’t know what else to do! I was discharged as a secretary; Lee Strasberg (acting act) told me that I was talented; And I had to make a living, “she explained.” That’s how I thought about it: it was a job. Activism only when I was 30 years old. There was a lot of happening in the world and I was pregnant, making a woman like a sponge, very open to what’s going on around her. At about that time, I began to realize that I wanted to change my life and participate in trying to end the war. I lived in France, I was married to Roger Vadi, I had a young daughter and left it all and went to America to become an activist. “