She even named some of the landmarks she had in mind.
Maybe, she said, she would someday find her own equivalent of The Grapes of Wrath, Coming Home or Easy Rider.
“I’ve got a ways to go,” she said at the time. “Hopefully, I’ll be working for a long time, and I’ll find it somewhere — the film that really changes somebody’s life.”
Those words feel particularly poignant now.
At the time, Fonda clearly imagined decades of acting still ahead of her.
Instead, within roughly another decade, she would be almost completely gone from Hollywood.
Even her approach to individual roles showed how seriously she took acting.
While discussing Single White Female, Fonda admitted the production had taken an emotional toll.
“It was kind of hard; it was scary,” she said. “It was a tough summer emotionally.”
She described the experience as emotionally draining because the material forced her to confront fear for an extended period.
