Her career waned in the mid- '70s, but she made a successful comeback at the end of that decade, winning her second Oscar for the 1978 Vietnam War film Coming Home. (That said, the second part of the story - that Fonda deliberately betrayed POWs who asked her to smuggle messages back home to their captors - was totally made up. It doesn't help that she also made broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that (whether intended to or not) were exploited by the North Vietnamese for propaganda purposes, and helped in using American POWs as props at a staged "Press Conference" to "prove" to the world that those POWs were not actually being mistreated and were merely opportunistic liars, and for years after the war continued to denigrate the men who were held and tortured in Vietnam as "liars" when they came forward to describe the abuse doled out to them. To this day, "latrine targets" with her picture are commonly found in US military urinals. She later apologized (for the photo, not her trip in general), but many still see her as a traitor. However, going to Hanoi in 1972 and publicly supporting North Vietnam (including allowing herself to be photographed sitting on an AA gun) was a step too far for the American public, gaining her the nickname "Hanoi Jane". After achieving a great deal of notability (as well as a large male fanbase) for her roles in such films as Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and Klute, for which she won an Oscar, she pulled the PR gaffe to end all PR gaffes.įonda, like many of her generation, protested The Vietnam War. She is the sister of Peter Fonda and aunt of Bridget Fonda. Daughter of the legendary Henry Fonda, she followed her father into acting.
Jane Seymour Fonda (born Decemin New York City) is an American actor, political activist, and former fashion model.
0 kommentar(er)
