Icon Jane Fonda rejects ‘kooky grandmother’ roles as she feels ‘much healthier’ than in her 20s

Proving that age is just a number, Hollywood legend and work out pioneer Jane Fonda is in better shape now than she was in her 20s.

The 87 year old Oscar winner made the startling revelation while speaking to The Daily Telegraph after wowing fans at the recent Cannes Film Festival in her role as a spokesperson for beauty brand, L’Oréal.

While chatting with the newspaper, Fonda revealed that she feels “younger and healthier” now in her 80s than she did at any other stage in her life and it’s why she won’t play the “dying mother with dementia” or “kooky grandmother” roles.

“People have so many stereotypes of older people,” she said via the publication.

“I’m 87, and I feel younger and healthier and a greater sense of well-being than I had in my 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s”.

Despite her resurgent career in recent years, many in Hollywood still try to pigeon-hole the vibrant star and send her roles that don’t reflect her talent.

“I’m 87, I don’t feel done yet. Roles that I’m offered are really sad,” she said.

“They are not worthy of my six decades of being in this industry.”

However, Fonda has fought against industry expectations for decades and recently revealed that negative comments about her looks almost derailed her career she really started.

In a previous interview with Variety magazine, the activist explained how cruel words from a director nearly led her to walk away from acting altogether.

While preparing for her first starring role in Tall Story, producer-director Josh Logan advised the actress to undergo the knife to fix her defects.

“I didn’t enjoy the experience. And before we started shooting, Josh Logan, the director-producer, said to me, ‘You should have your jaw broken so your cheeks aren’t so puffy,’ ” she told Variety.

“Stuff like that really builds a girl’s confidence.”

Thankfully, director Edward Dmytryk offered her a role in 1962’s Walk on the Wild Side, and the chance to play Kitty Twist helped change her mind about alternative career paths.

“She was a real character,” she said.

“And I had a blast.”

What followed was an impressive decades-long career with major roles across film and television, while fighting for social justice and finding time to build a fitness at home video empire.