We Want To Know What The Greats Have been Like
Jane Fonda and Ted Turner have been a Nineties energy couple, having gotten collectively months after she and outstanding California politician Tom Hayden ended their 17-year marriage. The 2-time Oscar winner has but to weigh in publicity about Turner’s loss of life Wednesday at 87, however she talked about his film legacy throughout an occasion in Hollywood final week.
Fonda was within the historic courtyard of the TCL Chinese language Theatre for opening evening of the 2026 TCM Basic Movie Pageant and was interviewed by longtime TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. Watch the video above.
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“My favourite ex-husband created Turner Basic Films — that was Ted Turner,” Fonda stated on the occasion. “On our very first date, he talked to me all about Turner Basic Films, and I do assume it was one of many nice issues he did.”
Mankiewicz then requested the two-time Oscar winner, “On this world we reside in at present, why do we want TCM now?”
Fonda thought for an extended second earlier than replying, “We have to know what it was like. We have to know what the greats have been like — the nice administrators, the nice actresses, the nice actors. We need to see how individuals used to behave.”
She added: “I do know a younger woman who got here from a really, very deprived background, and he or she realized manners and the way to behave from TCM.”
Fonda and Turner have been married from 1991-2001 however remained buddies within the ensuing years.
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