has announced she is taking an 18-month break from acting due to the.
The 85-year-old actress is known for her political activism and she plans to make that her focus for the foreseeable future, concentrating specifically on trying to get people who support taking action against into office.
Jane made the admission during a 30-minute on-stage interview with Robin Roberts at the Tribeca Film Festival after being honoured with the Voices For Social Justice Award.
‘Let’s get rid of the Joe Manchin’s. We need to try to light a fire under Biden and look, we have to vote for him, ok?’ the Barbarella actor said.
‘We have got to get really mad at him and we have to try to demand that he earn our votes. But I mean, let’s be real because the alternative is the end of everything.’
However, the Grace and Frankie star insisted she has never been interested in running for office herself.
‘One thing about getting old is that you start to get a little smart about what your strong suits are. And that’s not one of them. I’m a cheerleader,’ she admitted.
‘I don’t have any original ideas. I’m the one who takes your ideas and then I get credit for it,’ she joked.
The Oscar-winning star went on to address the current climate crisis, insisting it is ‘up to us’ to make changes to tackle climate change before it is ‘too late’ for the next generation.
‘We are animals, let us not forget. We depend on the ocean and the forests for oxygen, for food,’ she said.
‘I mean, even dogs don’t s*** in their own kennel. And we’re in our kennel and taking a lot down with us in the process. We have to stop it. It’s all connected.
‘Those of us who are alive right now in this decade, it’s up to us because when we go it’ll be too late. We’re the ones who can make the difference.
‘Let’s not, when history is written, be the ones that were staying at home and rearranging the china.’
The actor has been very vocal about her passion for climate change, recently calling for all white men to be ‘arrested and jailed’ after – claiming there ‘would be no climate crisis if there was no racism.’
During her appearance at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which saw her , she said: ‘This is serious. We’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels, and unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest.
‘Global South, people on islands, poor people of colour. It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy.’
