HBO’s released the official trailer for the documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. The documentary, which debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, will arrive on HBO on September 24, 2018.
Jane Fonda in Five Acts was directed and produced by documentarian Susan Lacy (director of Spielberg and American Masters). Emma Pildes and Levin also served as producers. Benjamin Gray edited, Kris Liem co-edited, Sam Painter was the director of photography, and Paul Cantelon provided the music.
Discussing her past as a divisive political figure in the documentary, Jane Fonda said, “I’m proud of most of what I did, but very sorry for some of what I did.”
Daughter of classic movie star Henry Fonda, Jane’s film credits include Cat Ballou, Any Wednesday, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They, Klute, Fun with Dick and Jane, Coming Home, The China Syndrome, and On Golden Pond. She’s currently starring opposite Lily Tomlin in the comedy series Grace and Frankie.
Fonda was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning two. In 1972 Fonda took home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Klute. Her starring performance in Coming Home earned her the Best Actress Academy Award in 1979.
The Details: “The documentary draws on 21 hours of interviews with Fonda, who speaks candidly and frankly about her life and her missteps. She explores the pain of her mother’s suicide, her father’s emotional unavailability, 30 years of an eating disorder and three marriages to highly visible, yet diametrically opposed, men. Jane Fonda in Five Acts also includes interviews with family and friends — Robert Redford, Lily Tomlin, producer Paula Weinstein and former spouses Tom Hayden and Ted Turner — as well as rare home movies and verité footage of the 80-year-old Fonda’s busy life today at, as she puts it, ‘the beginning of my last act.'”
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