{"id":292307,"date":"2020-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1150782"},"modified":"2020-05-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:00:00","slug":"the-truth-about-those-slaps-and-more-15-secrets-from-monster-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-truth-about-those-slaps-and-more-15-secrets-from-monster-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Those Slaps and More: 15 Secrets From Monster-In-Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020411\/rs_1200x1200-200511151446-1200-mil5.cm.51120.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>When she got the <em>Monster-in-Law&nbsp;<\/em>script, <strong>Jane Fonda<\/strong> hadn&#8217;t been&nbsp;in a movie in 15 years. Her most recent film was 1990&#8217;s <em>Stanley &amp; Iris<\/em>, after which she married media mogul and CNN founder <strong>Ted Turner<\/strong> and promptly retired from acting. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/%20https\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bic3ulubJgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2013 CNN interview<\/a>, Fonda remembered Turner telling her on their second date, &#8220;&#8216;If this is going to work, you&#8217;re going to have to give up your career.&#8217; I&#8217;m thinking, this is a little bit early in the relationship for that.&#8221; The conversation moved on to other things and then Turner came back with, &#8220;I just realized, you&#8217;re not going to give up your career until you win an Oscar.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Ted, I have two.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was planning to do it anyway,&#8221; she insisted, &#8220;so it was partly Ted and partly something I wanted, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveabout.com\/jane-fonda-talks-monster-in-law-2426666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told LiveAboutDotCom<\/a> about her decision to retire from acting 15 years prior: &#8220;It had become agony. I was not happy inside as a woman and I was kind of in denial about it and sort of cut off from my emotions. I was living on willpower and its very hard to be creative when you&#8217;re living on willpower. My last two or three movies were just agony and I said, I don&#8217;t want to be scared anymore. Then I met Ted Turner and I didn&#8217;t have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After they divorced in 2001, &#8220;I was celibate for seven years,&#8221; Fonda shared with <em>Forbes<\/em> in 2011, &#8220;and I discovered I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She and Turner remained friends, even though, according to Fonda&#8217;s 2005 memoir, <em>My Life So Far<\/em>, Turner was a serial cheater. Still,&nbsp;&#8220;it was really hard to leave\u2014I was 62 years old and I had no career anymore,&#8221; Fonda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/jane-fonda-is-paying-close-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recalled to <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in 2018.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t have to work, I was being looked after. And yet I knew that, if I stayed, I was never going to become who I&#8217;m meant to be as a whole person, as a really authentic person. And I tried to explain it to him, but he doesn&#8217;t really understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1150782\/the-truth-about-those-slaps-and-more-15-secrets-from-monster-in-law?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she got the Monster-in-Law&nbsp;script, Jane Fonda hadn&#8217;t been&nbsp;in a movie in 15 years. Her most recent film was 1990&#8217;s Stanley &amp; Iris, after which she married media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner and promptly retired from acting. In a 2013 CNN interview, Fonda remembered Turner telling her on their second date, &#8220;&#8216;If this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 06:29:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}