7/3/2023 0 Comments Download 9 to 5 jane fondaWhen you’re driving, you want to be able to steer and look over your shoulder where you’re going.” She looks deftly over her left shoulder, as flexible as a gymnast. You don’t want to take ten minutes to do it because you don’t have strength in your thighs and back. When you’re older, if you don’t keep moving, stay flexible and keep your muscles strong, it really makes a difference.” If you don’t work out when you’re young, your body will forgive you. I come from a long line of depressed people. If I go too long without taking a long walk or working out, I tend to get depressed. “But I force myself to do it, because it makes a difference not just in my body, but in my brain. She doesn’t like working out, she admits. I have dumbbells of different colours – beautiful pink, orange, yellow and turquoise, which makes them more pleasant to pick up.” When I use weights, they’re lighter weights. You can do exactly the same things – but slowly. “When you’re my age, you have to work out very slowly so you don’t get hurt. “The word that matters now is s-l-o-w,” she says, spelling it out. Currently in cinemas, the story follows four friends (played by Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen) who in later life take the rose-fuelled trip to Italy that they never managed to do when they were younger. Her acting career continues too, with a new film Book Club: The Next Chapter. She became an activist in the 1970s, protesting against the Vietnam war and earning the nickname “Hanoi Jane”. If she has generally slowed down her work pace, it has been hard to notice in the last few months as she has continued her Greenpeace activism weekly on social media. She is thoroughly enjoying herself in Cannes, hanging out with her “pals” Kate Winslet and Eva Longoria. It taught her, she has said, to live with “no regrets” and to “get the things done that you want to get done”. Speaking from the Cannes Film Festival, dressed in a white shirt and a blue jacket (“both Maxmara”) with a pop of L’Oreal’s Color Riche in Audacious on her lips (“the best lipstick”), Fonda looks more than fine: she looks bright-eyed and beautiful, despite having been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in September 2022.Īfter a successful course of chemotherapy, the cancer is now in remission, and Fonda says she feels good.
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