Acting legend Jane Fonda shared a video that simultaneously referenced Nicole Kidman’s iconic AMC ad while highlighting the problem posed by the potential sale of Warner Bros. to Netflix. Fonda, who starred in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie for seven seasons, recorded the video with the Committee for the First Amendment and the Groundlings. “Come to this place for mergers. We stream to self-silence, to censor, to slop,” Fonda says in the video as she enters a theater. “Where content is chosen by the best billionaires we have. Dazzling, focus-grouped, pre-digested content that lets your brain not do too much thinky thinky,” she continues. ”Somehow corporate greed feels good in a place like this. Somehow, mergers feel good in a place like this,” she adds, before she’s asked to leave the theater because it’s about to be demolished and turned into a data center. The potential sale of Warner Bros. to Netflix has set off alarm bells throughout Hollywood, with many concerned about the impacts of further consolidation of the industry and the work it produces, as well as the potential role the Trump administration may play in approving the merger.
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