In life the challenge is “normally” to succeed in at least one thing. Based on the inclinations, opportunities, people you meet. As? Putting passion, talent, curiosity and that great bit of determination into it that if you don’t have it you have to invent it.
Per Jane Fonda – born on 21 December 1937, and therefore in 2020 83 years and a constant enthusiasm as a progressive teenager – the challenge – overwhelmed – was and is to be so many things together. Actress (winner of two Oscars for Best Actress), television producer, sex symbol, pacifist, feminist, fitness guru and activist.
That slim body, exhausted from years of aerobics (“I was sweating to burn kilocalories, so I was fighting bulimia”, a disorder that has accompanied her for years, because of a father – Hollywood giant – obsessed with thinness) and that face, on which he never made any secret of having abused a scalpel and cosmetic surgery today are the manifesto freed from the pursuit of perfection.
Ms. Jane is an icon for generations. It is for his activism, which originates with the protests against the war in Vietnam, the defense of Native Americans, his arrest under the Nixon administration up to the symbolic handcuffs of 2019, when in the Fire Drill Fridays in Washington in front of at the Capitol she was ready to put her face on it and be handcuffed. She and her red coat.
“Civil disobedience is the only way to change things”, reiterates in the interview with Fabio Fazio a What’s the weather like shortly before meeting, excited, Greta Thunberg.
In that generational and cultural encounter lies the uniqueness of the character. The wisdom that wishes to be contaminated by a warrior youth. Finding new life. Because she has always been an environmentalist, but at a certain point Greta “awakened” her, inspiring her. And so he started using his “popularity platform”, leaving the comfort zone and becoming a transversal symbol in defense of the planet. Also for this reason, with an irony over the years it is increasingly present – she too acknowledges – lands on the social network of the under 25s with a “Hello Tik Tok, I’m bringing back the Jane Fonda Workout to fight the climate crisis”. And here she is in her luxurious home, with a mat on the floor and off with the “Up and down” exercises. And then a red coat, tracksuit and video call with young activists.
Best wishes for these 83 candles – that they will not be in jail like for the 82 where the sound of Happy birthday to you filtered into the cell – they will come from many and of all ages. Who knew her on Tik Tok, who for Fire Drill Fridays, who on Netflix with Grace&Frankie, who dreamed it in Barbarella o in A call for Inspector Klute, who was moved to see her receive the Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival together with the beloved artistic partner of Barefoot in the park, Robert Redford (for those who have never seen it, retrieve it, and you will find the sense of comedy), who listened to it take the microphone and involve thousands of people and march with them. With us.
Happy birthday, Jane.
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