Jane Fonda Calls Posing for ‘Hanoi Jane’ Photo a ‘Terrible Mistake’ but Refused to Be Intimidated by Backlash
Fifty-one years after Jane Fonda was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, she admitted to Chris Wallace that posing for that picture was “a terrible mistake” but her anti-Vietnam War fight was not.
When the 85-year-old two-time Oscar winner appeared on CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” this week to promote her new film “80 for Brady,” Wallace brought up her decades of political activism and arguably the most controversial moment of Fonda’s public life – that infamous photo that resulted in the lasting nickname Hanoi Jane and the de facto blacklisting in Hollywood until she made her comeback with “Fun With Dick and Jane” five years later.
When asked by Wallace how she feels about that photo in retrospect, Fonda called it a “terrible mistake.”
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