1. An Exceptional Period of Self-Discovery
Then she was able to get the Monster-in-Law script, Jane Fonda hadn’t been in a movie in 15 years. The 1990 film that was her most recent movie was “The Last of the Wild”. Stanley & IrisAfter that, she was married to CNN founder and media mogul. Ted TurnerAnd she promptly quit acting. Fonda recalls Turner telling Fonda, on their second date in 2013, “If this is going for work, you will have to give your career up.” “I think this is too early in our relationship. After the conversation moved to other topics, Turner replied, “I just realized that you are not going to stop your career until it wins an Oscar.” “Ted, there are two of me,” I replied.
She insisted that she was going to make it happen anyway, so it was Ted’s idea and mine.
She told LiveAboutDotCom in 2005 that she had decided to stop acting after 15 years. It was hard for me to be happy as a woman. Living on willpower was a way of life. It’s hard to think creatively when one is living off willpower. After watching the last two movies, it was agony. I finally said that I didn’t need to be afraid anymore. Ted Turner came along and saved me.
Fonda said that after their divorce in 2001, Fonda was “celibate for seven year”. Forbes2011: “And I found I was fine.”
Fonda, Fonda’s 2005 memoir, says that Turner and she remained close friends despite their differences. How far I’ve come in my lifeTurner was known for being a cheater. Still, “it was really hard to leave—I was 62 years old and I had no career anymore,” Fonda recalled to The New Yorker in 2018.” “In 2018, I did not have to work. I was being taken care of. But I also knew that if I didn’t leave, I wouldn’t be able to grow into the person I want to be. It was something I tried to explain to him but he didn’t get it.