Vienna – The actress Jane Fonda He has assured that he has agreed to accompany a rich Austrian master builder to the Vienna Opera Ball tomorrow because the pay is good and he needs this income.
“They pay me well and I need the money,” said Fonda, 85, a two-time Oscar winner (Klute, 1972 and Coming Home, 1979), at a press conference in Vienna today.
The actress and environmental activist admitted that until yesterday she thought the invitation to Vienna was to attend an opera performance.
Fonda will accompany Richar Lugner, a 90-year-old Austrian builder who pays a celebrity to attend this social event, the most important in Austria, every February.
“Maybe I’ll visit the (Austrian) Federal President, give interviews, see people dancing and then go to sleep,” said the actress about her plans for the so-called dance of dances, which will take place tomorrow for the first time after a two-year break due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
Of course, he assured that he would not dare to dance a waltz because he had the “wrong” hips and knees, reports the APA agency.
Last December, Fonda announced that the cancer he was suffering from was in remission.
Fonda has been very active in environmental protection for years and has taken part in numerous protests and demonstrations, where she has even been arrested.
Today, too, he called for more climate protection and defended the protest actions of the group “Last Generation”, which in Austria, for example, poured a black liquid against a Klimt painting that had not been called up or tried to interrupt the famous New Year’s concert.
For years, Lugner has hired a film, music or fashion star to accompany him to the opera ball.
He was joined by model Elle Macpherson in 2019 and by American actress Melanie Griffith in 2018.
Before her, the businessman invited such personalities as Kim Kardashian (2014), Pamela Anderson (2003), Gina Lollobrigida (1991 and 2013), Ivana Trump (1994) or Sophia Loren (1995).