“You’ll have to kill me. You will never cow me into stopping.”
It’s kind of like alcoholism — there’s a whole lot of people that don’t wake up until they’ve hit bottom. But we’re kind of hitting bottom now, and so I think more and more people are looking around and saying, "Holy fuck, what is going on?" — on every level. It’s not just the climate crisis; it’s an empathy crisis. The ecosystem is unraveling, but the social fabric of our country is unraveling too, and people know it.
My dad [actor Henry Fonda] didn’t talk to me much about anything, but I knew what his values were. I knew the characters that set him on fire, and I understood why. I only saw him cry twice in my life; the first time I was about five or six years old, and he didn’t know that I could see. I saw him in his garden leaning on his hoe, weeping, and I found out that was the day that FDR died. He thought that much of FDR, and those are the things, as a child, that become part of your DNA.
I realized that my celebrity and my privilege stood in the way, and so for a long time I really just wanted to disappear into the working class demography. I spent time in Detroit going to [United Auto Workers] meetings with women organizers who were organizing women auto workers, and I would sit in the back and listen to the women talking.
Now that I have a hit TV series at my back, I can see how different activism is. People used to pull my hair out by the roots, and now, most of the time, people don’t know who I am when I go door-to-door. When they do, it’s all friendly — "Oh, my God, I love your show! Harry, come here! Look who’s here!"
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