Movie star, Academy Award winner, and workout video guru Jane Fonda hit the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Fonda, 86, was seen in a video clip posted to X knocking on doors for the presidential ticket in Michigan.
“I’ve never done this for a president,” Fonda said. “I had an ex-husband that came from Royal Oak, Michigan. I’ve done it for him, but I’ve never done it for a president, but this is most important.”
Fonda was referring to her second of three husbands, Tom Hayden, whom she credits in her first memoir, My Life So Far, with introducing her to politics. The duo were a fixture of 1970s political life. Together, they campaigned against the Vietnam War and formed the Campaign for Economic Democracy.
Fonda would go on to support her husband as he sought a variety of political offices in California.
The 30-second clip, shared mostly in Leftwing circles on Twitter, begins with a woman overwhelmed with Fonda’s presence and concludes with the star saying, “We have to, have to, have to get them elected.”
Michiganders are used to door knocks and phone calls, but Ann Arbor residents were not prepared for the one and only @Janefonda at their door! pic.twitter.com/t4CjvtNquY
— Kamala for Michigan (@KamalaForMI) September 17, 2024
Kamala for Michigan was the first account to share the video.
“Michiganders are used to door knocks and phone calls, but Ann Arbor residents were not prepared for the one and only @Janefonda at their door!”
I can’t go to work today, Jane Fonda might knock at my door https://t.co/ZI0HjpHP8a
— jenna (@_foxtails) September 18, 2024
Commentators to the post appeared excited at the prospect of meeting her.
“Can’t go to work today, Jane Fonda might knock at my door,” one responded.
You can’t make this up.
On the left is Jane Fonda aka Hanoi Jane protesting the Iraq War.
On the right is also Jane Fonda door-knocking for Dick Cheney’s candidate, Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/8I1cFg2qGh
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 18, 2024
“You can’t make this up. On the left is Jane Fonda aka Hanoi Jane protesting the Iraq War. On the right is also Jane Fonda door-knocking for Dick Cheney’s candidate, Kamala Harris,” an account named ‘Bad Hombre’ posted.
The post was referring to former Vice President Dick Cheney recently saying that he would vote for Harris and to Fonda’s infamous controversy from her Vietnam activism days.
In 1972, Fonda went to Hanoi, the enemy capital of North Vietnam. There, Fonda posed with an anti-air gun, surrounded by North Vietnamese combatants. The photo caused outrage in many circles in the U.S. and was seen as a propaganda victory for Vietnamese communists.
Fonda has since apologized and worked extensively with veterans groups to make up for the photo.
“I will go to my grave regretting that. The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda’s daughter, just a woman sitting on an enemy aircraft gun, was a betrayal,” Fonda said in a 2005 interview with CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes.
“It was like I was thumbing my nose at the military. And at the country that gave me privilege. It was the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine. I don’t thumb my nose at this country. I care deeply about American soldiers,” said Fonda.
In recent years, Fonda has taken to protesting climate change, and she was arrested several times in the fall of 2019 for protesting at the U.S. Capitol.
Outside of politics, Fonda played Grace Hanson in the Netflix program Grace and Frankie, which ran from 2015 to 2022.