Jane Fonda, Kate Hudson Pay Tribute To PGA’s Trailblazer Award Honorees Paula Weinstein & Lynda Obst For Behind The Scenes Impact On Women

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Jane Fonda and Kate Hudson presented the Producers Guild of America Trailblazer Awards to posthumous recipients Paula Weinstein and Lynda Obst.

Fonda worked with Weinstein on the films 9 to 5 and Monster-in-Law and the TV series Grace and Frankie. Having made her first film in 1958, Fonda said it was lonely until women made headways in the ‘70s through the feminist movement and in Hollywood.

For Monster-in-Law, Fonda’s first film after 15 years, Fonda remembered Weinstein saving the film after a poor test screening. “Paula totally saved it by geting Carrie Fisher to rewrite the ending and hiring Elaine Stritch to play my mother,” Fonda said. “Paula knew funny.” Fonda said Weinstein’s legacy beyond her films would be the hundreds of women she mentored, as evidenced by Weinstein’s memorial after she died March 25. “We asked anybody who was mentored by Paula to come stand with us on stage,” Fonda said. “At first a few people came up.

A few more followed. By the end, most of the theater was standing on the stage. That was Paula, one of a kind, beloved, irreplaceable.” Obst began as an associate producer of Flashdance.