Jane Fonda Calls On Hollywood To Fight During This Difficult Time As She Accepts SAG Career Honor

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In a fiery speech, Jane Fonda accepted the SAG Life Achievement Award at the 31st annual SAG Awards Sunday, first thanking SAG-AFTRA and her fellow actors amid a standing ovation and raucous cheers and applause. “This means the world to me,” she said. “Your enthusiasm makes it seem, I don’t know, less like a late twilight of my life and more like a go-girl kickass.

Which is good, because I’m not done!” the 87-year-old two-time Oscar winner exclaimed. Fonda is the 60th person to receive the Life Achievement Award, given to an actor who fosters “the finest ideals of the acting profession” as it recognizes both career and humanitarian accomplishments.

Fonda took the stage to accept the award following a presentation by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and montage of clips from her films, including her Oscar winning roles in Klute and Coming Home, as well as 9 to 5, Julia, The China Syndrome, The Newsroom and many more.

The actor reflected on her “un-strategic” and “really weird career” over the past several decades, including retiring for 15 years and coming back at 65, calling herself “a late bloomer” in show business.