Jane Fonda Pushes for Representation at Golden Globes: ‘Let’s Be Leaders’

Jane Fonda accepted her Cecil B.

DeMille award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globe awards by calling on Hollywood to work harder to increase diversity.“There’s a story we’ve been afraid to hear about ourselves in this industry.

Let’s all of us, including the groups who decide who gets recognized, let’s all of us make an effort,” she said.

“Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent so that everyone rises, so everyone’s story has a chance to be heard.

Let’s be leaders.”“We are a community of storytellers.

Storytelling has always been essential.

They can help us see each other, have empathy.

For all our diversity, we are human first,” Fonda said.She mentioned “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “One Night in Miami,” “I May Destroy You” and “Minari” as works that inspired her in the past year

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