How Jane Fonda, at 82, became a force of nature on climate.
is the most intimidating person I’ve ever met. It was nearly 20 years ago, a week before George W. Bush’s inauguration, when I arrived at the door of her hotel suite in Santa Monica to interview her for—a rigid handshake, and a once-over. No phony smile or. As we sat down, I asked how much time I had. “Let’s start with an hour,” she said, curtly. No amount of friendly chit-chat—how about this?—changed the dynamic. Indeed, I had to fight the urge to flee.
I think I was caught off guard by that chilly reception because I thought I had already passed some kind of test. In the spring and summer of ’96, I fell into a social circle that included Vanessa Vadim, Fonda’s daughter with the director Roger Vadim, and Rory Kennedy, the documentary filmmaker and daughter of Robert Kennedy. It was a friend of a friend-of-a-friend situation, and I took an instant liking to Vanessa.
At one point during the pre-V-Day gathering at the Hilton, Fonda suddenly stood up, and in a grand actress-y gesture, as if she had just entered stage right, swept across the room toward Rory Kennedy and then stopped, hitting her mark. “Oh,” she said. “Have I told you I’ve endowed a chair at Harvard?” Dramatic pause. “It’s no Kennedy School, but it’s.” There was an after-party, too—at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Midtown. It was packed, with electricity in the air, everyone having a great time.
Sally Field was there. Unlike Fonda, she was the very soul of approachability, a warm, head-cocked smile for everyone. Despite the fact that she is perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning performance in the 1979 worker’s rights protest film, Field had never done anything remotely like this before. “The time is now,” she would say to the crowd at the rally later, just before she was handcuffed and hauled away.
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