Too old for social media at 82? US actress Jane Fonda ("Klute") is against it. The two-time Academy Award winner discovered the new TikTok platform a few days ago and recently published her first video there. The title: "I'm bringing back the Jane Fonda workout."
And indeed: At the beginning of the short clip, Fonda, who stomped a true fitness empire out of the ground with aerobic videos in the 1980s, made herself comfortable on a blue sports mat. In the side support, she raises her right leg several times, commenting with the words: "And up and down, up and down." Then it becomes political.
Care instead of fitness
Although Fonda initially thought she wanted to offer her fans a workout for the period of self-isolation, she later corrected her statement. There are already enough workout videos online. Instead, she wants to call her followers to work on the wellbeing of the planet. In the eyes of the avowed climate protection activist, this is "a real emergency".
The 82-year-old's request: numerous participation in "Virtual Fire Drill Friday". Fonda is a well-known supporter of the demonstrations that regularly took place in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. before the Corona crisis. She was arrested several times for this. "The future needs you. I need you," are the actress's appealing words at the end of her video.