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Jane Fonda calls on Hollywood to address inequality so all can be 'seen and heard' in powerful Golden Globes speech
Accepting the award, Fonda used the moment to address her "community of storytellers" who have long fought to share their art "in turbulent crisis" moments throughout history, not unlike the one the world is currently in.
"Stories can change our hearts and our minds, they can help us see each other in a new light, to have empathy, to recognize that, for all our diversity, we are humans first," she said. " The non-linear, non-cerebral forms that are art speak on a different frequency and generate a new energy that jolt us open and penetrate our defenses so we can see and hear what we may have been afraid of seeing and hearing."
She went on say there's "a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves" in Hollywood. "[It's] a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry. A story about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out: a story about who's offered a seat at the table and who's kept out of the rooms where decisions are made. So, let's all of us — including the groups that decide who gets hired and what gets made and who wins awards, let's all off us make an effort to expand that tent so everyone rises and everyone's story has a chance to be seen and heard.... Art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way, so let's be leaders."
