Jane Fonda Went Skinny-Dipping with Michael Jackson

0:00 We saw each other recently at a fund raiser for Hilary

0:03 Clinton at George Clooney's house and we hung out a little bit.

0:06 And you had a little tooth incident.

0:09 My tooth came out.

0:11 [LAUGH]

0:12 Mm-hm.

0:13 Yeah.

0:13 Have any of you had a tooth come out?

0:14 Yes, me!

0:15 [LAUGH] Raise your hands.

0:16 Not very many of you.

0:17 Like a front tooth, like a

0:19 [SOUND] So you were having a martini saying you weren't gotta

0:23 eat anything because you are afraid your tooth would come out

0:27 and I see you leaving at the end of the night

0:30 going like this and I run over to you and was like,

0:34 I guess your tooth came out.

0:36 Yes.

0:37 A lot of people came over in sympathy and said.

0:39 In fact, Barry Diller said, mine came out three times last week.

0:42 [LAUGH]

0:43 [LAUGH]

0:44 Well, that's.

0:45 Do you mind saying how old you are?

0:48 78.

0:49 78 years old.

0:51 [APPLAUSE] If that's the worst that happens.

0:56 [APPLAUSE] I mean you look so good and I know

1:01 you know that, I'm sure you hear it all the time.

1:03 Thank you.

1:04 But do you think, do you care about that number?

1:08 Well, yeah I do because no matter what.

1:09 You know, I've got a fake hip, a fake knee,

1:13 I've gotta, you should see what happens to me in airports.

1:17 I mean it's just a fact no matter what happens you're body is gotta go south,

1:21 but your spirit and your mind, [APPLAUSE] It's like [APPLAUSE] People,

1:31 you know the old fashioned way of looking at aging is you're born,

1:34 you peak at midlife, and then you recline into decrepitude.

1:38 But the way to really look at it is, even if you body is declining,

1:41 even if you're sick, your spirit,

1:43 your heart is on an upward trajectory, always growing and evolving.

1:48 [APPLAUSE]

1:50 It's a very.

1:52 Not just this business but just society in general.

1:54 It's a very youth oriented,

1:56 I mean everything you see in magazines, everything you see everywhere is.

2:00 And I think that's you know.

2:02 Personally, with Hillary,

2:03 I think it's what she's fighting against right now, too,

2:07 because she's not what we're used to seeing in women and society, right?

2:12 Yeah.

2:13 Right?

2:14 It's so exciting that you may very well be our President.

2:18 [APPLAUSE] I mean, we could have a woman president.

2:20 [APPLAUSE] That would be amazing.

2:21 [APPLAUSE]

2:22 My Lord.

2:24 Yeah.

2:24 I mean, you've been an activist.

2:25 You've been very vocal with politics and this must

2:29 be really exciting to actually see that it's a possibility.

2:33 Yeah.

2:33 It's not just her gender.

2:35 Mm hm.

2:36 She will play the woman's card.

2:37 I mean a man could play the woman's card too.

2:39 But she will deal with things that other

2:42 people aren't dealing with like domestic violence, like.

2:45 Equal pay like this ERA.

2:48 And she's super smart and just, I mean, I think she's amazing.

2:52 I think she's-

2:52 And she just gets knocked down and she comes back and-

2:55 I know, I can't imagine, I mean,

2:57 I spoke with her that night and it's just

3:00 the amount that she's attacked And that she's just still strong.

3:04 Yeah, she's really resilient.

3:05 Yeah, amazing.

3:05 We have to talk about this, because someone told me this today,

3:07 and I can't imagine, you said you've had a lot of experiences in life.

3:10 And, one experience that I heard about today,

3:13 is that you swam nude with Michael Jackson.

3:17 [LAUGH] Of course.

3:21 [APPLAUSE] I'll tell you how, Here's how it happened.

3:29 He was visiting me when we were shooting on Golden Pond.

3:32 And I had a little cabin on the lake,

3:34 Squam Lake in New Hampshire, and he stayed with me for about eight days.

3:38 And one night, it was a full moon and he said, let's go swimming.

3:43 It was his idea.

3:45 [LAUGH] When he said let's go swimming, did he mean like, nude?

3:49 Well, he hadn't brought a bathing suit.

3:51 [LAUGH]

3:51 And yeah, I think.

3:53 And you both just took all your clothes off and jumped in?

3:56 Yeah.

3:56 We wore robes and went out and dropped the robes and the, but you know here,

4:00 I am the only person in the world who

4:03 has skinny dipped with Micheal Jackson, And Greta Garbo.

4:07 [APPLAUSE] And Greta Garbo?

4:09 Yes.

4:10 Wow, how did that happen?

4:13 I was about 16 and my father had rented

4:15 a house in the south of France right on the water.

4:18 And, he was married.

4:21 My stepmother was a very social person so

4:23 there were always a lot of celebrities coming.

4:26 And no one ever spoke to me or paid any attention.

4:28 One day Garbo came.

4:30 And she said, you wanna go swimming?

4:32 And in fact that she even saw me and she

4:35 came out with a robe and one of those white

4:38 serious tight rubber caps and there was a lady

4:42 friend with her and we walked down the steeps,

4:45 stone stairs and she dropped her robe and my god, her body,

4:48 it made me so happy cuz it was so beautiful but it wasn't Playboy body,

4:53 it was athlete body.

4:55 She was so sleek, and [NOISE],

4:57 she dove into that cold water, she was Swedish you know.

5:00 It took me a lot longer to get in the water

5:03 but then we kinda she swam way out and I

5:05 was coming this way and we came back and we were

5:07 face to face in the water threading water and she said,

5:10 do you want to be an actress?

5:12 And I said no.

5:13 And she said, well you're pretty enough you should be.

5:17 I almost drowned.

5:18 [LAUGHTER] wow and did then you think about being

5:22 an actress because of Greta Garbo saying that.

5:24 no, I never thought I would, no.

5:27 Yeah but look at your career now, unbelievable