80 For Brady star Jane Fonda has a wild reason for wanting White men to be arrested and jailed.
Fonda believes that the “patriarchy” entirely responsible for bringing on climate change, which she insisted only exists because of “racism.”
“This is serious, we’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels,” she told a crowd at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
“Unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest — Global South, people on islands, poor people of color.”
“There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.” —Jane Fonda pic.twitter.com/FSmBsxdMii
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“It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop. We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men [responsible],” the 85-year-old activist said according to Fox News Digital.
From there, Fonda correlated racial discrimination with the world’s environmental issues.
“It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism,” she suggested. “There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy.”
“A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom,” Fonda continued.
The longtime actress didn’t have anything nice to say about her past co-stars during the Q&A.
She claimed that Robert Redford, with whom she starred in four films, did not “like to kiss” her while they were filming. Which may have been because Fonda admitted she “was in love with” him over the weekend.
She noted that Redford “was always in a bad mood” and she thought it was her fault every time.
“He’s a very good person. He just has an issue with women,” Fonda shaded.
She also took issue with The China Syndrome co-star Michael Douglas, who she claimed “probably doesn’t like me.”
Fonda does not currently have any new acting roles on the horizon, as she plans to focus all of her time on climate change.
“So when I say that I’m fighting the climate crisis, I also feel that I’m fighting patriarchy and racism,” she told the audience.
“It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here. That’s what I learned when I started being an activist around the Vietnam War,” Hanoi Jane noted.
“The more you go down any issue, whatever it is, you realize that it’s all connected. And if we solve the climate crisis and we haven’t solved those other things, we’re gonna be in trouble.”
This isn’t the first time Fonda has made questionable remarks related to her advocacy. She controversially suggested that “murder” could be a solution for preventing political challenges to abortion rights.
Fonda and 80 For Brady co-star Lily Tomlin appeared on ABC’s The View in March to promote their film.
“I think that all the stuff that’s going on with the changing of laws and the backsliding in the country is pretty terrifically awful,” Tomlin told the panelists.
“We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have,” Fonda noted.
Hey @FBI: Are you going to take action against Jane Fonda for wanting to murder pro-lifers?pic.twitter.com/mlm0DHoEgp
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“We know what that feels like. We know what that’s done for our lives. We’re not going back. I don’t care what the laws are, we’re not going back.”
When co-host Joy Behar asked Fonda what other activities besides marching and protesting she suggested, Fonda said “Well I thought of murder.”
Though Behar gave Fonda a chance to walk back the statement, by saying she was “just kidding,” the actress refused to retract the statement.