Jane Fonda has called on Hollywood to focus on empathy, stressing its importance amid America’s political divide.
Fonda made her remarks after being honored Sunday with the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award.
“What we, actors, create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls,” said Fonda, according to Variety. “And make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke. By the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.”
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