Jane Fonda, Star of Fire Drill Fridays, Has New Book Out – The New York Times

I wonder what she thinks about #MeToo and Hollywood. What was her experience?

I was raped once by an actor, she said, and I had one director, who is a French director, who said, Your character has to have an orgasm, so I have to see what your orgasms are like. And I just pretended I couldn t understand him. He was talking in French.

Would Barbarella, directed by her first husband, Roger Vadim, even be made now?

Oh, Barbarella could be made, but I would be one of the producers, and it would be a feminist movie, she said. It was almost a feminist movie. She flew the spacecraft herself, right? She was the one that the president assigned to go to the planet to save the scientist. She was already pretty good, OK?

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Ack.

I saw her once, coming down the stairs in the house I lived in at Cornell, visiting the university with Tom Hayden. Lots of semi-famous people stayed with us if they wanted a discrete taste of student life. Plus we had nice (relatively speaking) guest rooms. It’s funny how being a university student gives you a false sense of equality with these people. Then you graduate into poverty and debt and quickly get a taste of the real world.