Jane Fonda, who has been arrested and jailed multiple times, recalled how fellow inmates “had far more important things to think about” than her moviesJack Smart is the Movies Staff Writer at PEOPLE. With 10 years of experience as an entertainment journalist, he previously worked at The A.V. Club and Backstage.“I was the only white person there,” Fonda recalled. “A lot of other prisoners, Black women,” she added, “could have cared less who I was.
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