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Jane Fonda Revived Her Classic ‘Jane Fonda’ Workout on TikTok, and It's Everything


Jane Fonda might actually convince me to join TikTok.

The Hollywood legend is now a member of the viral social platform, and she did something incredible for one of her inaugural posts: revived her retro “Jane Fonda workouts,” which swept the country in the 70s and 80s.

“My name is Jane Fonda and I’m going to bring back the ‘Jane Fonda workout,’” she says on her TikTok, posted Thursday, April 2. She also put the video on IG for those who aren’t TikTokers quite yet.

See it for yourself, below:

But it looks like this might be a one-time thing. It seems Fonda did the workout to draw attention to the globe’s climate crisis. After a few leg lifts, she told her followers, “There are too many workouts happening right now, on television and on computers. What I really would like you to do is work out with me for the planet. There’s a climate crisis that’s a real emergency and so, whether you’re on your couch or your yoga mat, will you join me for the Virtual Fire Drill Fridays?”

Virtual Fire Drill Fridays, for those who don’t know, are rallies organized by Greenpeace USA and Fonda that help bring awareness to the climate change crisis and how people can help it virtually. Fonda recruited several celebs, including Piper Perabo and Marissa Tomei, to help spread the message. The drills will happen digitally every Friday in April at 2 P.M. ET.

“Join us this Friday alongside @JaneFonda and @FireDrillFriday to keep the pressure on politicians to adopt a Green New Deal, end new fossil fuels, and enact a just transition to a renewable economy that protects workers and communities,” Greenpeace USA wrote in an Instagram caption. “Let’s tackle the climate crisis together while we #StayHome. We’ll see you online!”

This is a great, important cause, but can Jane Fonda actually start teaching workouts again? That might motivate me to get off my couch!



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Sarah Jessica Parker Revived Carrie Bradshaw for an Important Campaign With Stella Artois


Several things are synonymous with Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw: New York City, Manolo Blahniks, cosmopolitans. That third one is the center of Stella Artois’ new campaign with Water.org, “Pour It Forward,” aimed at ending the global water crisis.

The message is simple: For every bottle of Stella Artois sold at a bar or restaurant, one person receives a month’s worth of access to clean water in the developing world. Buying a six-pack of Stella, for example, gives someone six months worth of clean water access. A 12-pack, 12 months of clean water. You get the idea.

It’s a great cause, so of course in the new Stella Artois campaign (which will air during the Super Bowl), Carrie changes her usual cosmo order for a Stella. The restaurant descends into madness. The same chaos happens moments later, when The Dude from The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges, opts for a Stella in lieu of his regular White Russian.

“Good choice,” Carrie tells The Dude after he takes the seat next to her. He responds, “Changing can do a little good.” Yes, it can.

We chatted with Parker about the campaign and what she loves most about Carrie Bradshaw, and Sex and the City 3, which, as you probably know, came very close to happening.

Glamour: What made you decide this was the right moment to bring back Carrie Bradshaw?

Sarah Jessica Parker: Pretty simple: Stella Artois and Water.org. I thought [about] the campaign, the kind of effort they’ve shown, the impact they’ve had. Water.org’s commitment. The important and urgent work that’s being done. I think the campaign is really clever, and everything they offered—the execution—was just really smart and the message delivered was something I believed in and felt really good about. I felt privileged to be asked to be part of it.

The actual concept of the campaign is so spot-on, because Carrie does have this signature drink. How was the day of the shoot?

It was pretty exciting. We had been away with Christmas break, so I was traveling home from pretty far away and dropping my children off in New York and switching planes and heading to Los Angeles. I landed really late, then had a fitting for a couple of hours to get everything as right as we felt we could. [We wanted] a story that was immediately recognizable in terms of the details. The directing team was so talented. Everybody surrounding the campaign, those on the set—everyone involved was simply good at what they did. It was joyful. The set was fun. It was relaxed. The first day I shot alone, and the second day I got to work with Jeff [Bridges], which was an absolute crazy treat. It was fun. I wanted it to be good. I wanted people who cared about Carrie Bradshaw to feel that I was doing right by her—that this was a message she would deliver. So you try to take care of all that stuff in advance of someone yelling “action.”

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Carrie Bradshaw is someone you’ve played in several iterations now: the series, the two movies, and now these spots for Stella Artois. Is it still fun stepping into her shoes? Is it just as fun as it was in 1998?

It is. I think ever more so for this because of the campaign. Because of the message. Because of the global impact. And because you have this unique moment when you have so many people gathered to watch [the Super Bowl]. There’s a lot of eyeballs on this game. It’s such an opportune moment to [guide] people toward their better instincts. Americans have a long history of reaching out, of wanting to be involved, of wanting to participate, and this is such a simple way. It felt exciting and purposeful and, therefore, more fun to play her for this.



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Maxine Waters on How the Women's March Revived Her Faith in the Younger Generation


January 21 marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. All this week, Glamour will be spotlighting the stories, people, and issues that framed the March, as well as where we go from here.

Backstage, before I spoke at the Women’s March in Washington, my mind went immediately to the many marches I’ve been involved in during my lifetime. I couldn’t help but reflect on the work of fellow activists in my past, people like Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and so many others. I met up with Gloria backstage and my heart fluttered to see her, and we embraced and talked about old times.

But I will be honest: I was also feeling as if there had been a long gap. So much time had passed between when we had been together on those marches, what we had accomplished, and today. I had really begun to think that the women’s movement was lost, that younger women didn’t appreciate what we had done, and why. I thought they were more focused on their careers, thinking that a women’s movement didn’t enhance their opportunity for upward mobility, that they didn’t want to be aligned with it. They didn’t think they needed it.

Going in, I had been feeling disappointed, even a bit resentful,
toward the younger generation. But seeing the
size and passion of the crowd… [I realized] I’d
been completely wrong.

I lined up to speak, and I could not believe what I saw. I had heard there would be 250,000 people present; it was more like a million. It was unlike any march I’d been to before. For one thing, there were the pink hats everywhere. The signs were the most creative that I have ever seen. And the women who had organized the march had included people of all cultures and backgrounds in their leadership and planning.

Going in, I had been feeling disappointed, even a bit resentful, toward the younger generation. I was under the impression that they thought what we had done for women’s rights wasn’t important. But seeing the size and passion of the crowd and realizing that the younger women there recognized what we had done and that they were carrying our torch made me realize I’d been completely wrong. And as I left the stage and marched with groups of young women, I saw that they did know the history. Some of them even recognized me and called out my name, and it was thrilling to me to connect with the younger generation. We walked from the stage all the way to the White House and I was in a state of euphoria. It was a wonderful, wonderful experience.

Excerpted from Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, available for purchase now.

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