Jane Fonda Rocked Gray Hair at the 2020 Oscars and Fans Were Obsessed
Jane Fonda, 82, embraced her gray hair at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Fans noticed her new style as she presented the Oscar to Parasite for Best Picture.
The Grace and Frankie star also wore a recycled red gown and sustainable jewelry.
Jane Fonda is embracing her grays. The Grace and Frankie star, 82, has been blonde since her early days, so fans were shocked—and elated—to see her step onto the Oscars stage rocking a silver pixie cut. She presented the night’s final award to Parasite for Best Picture wearing a recycled red gown (that she originally wore to the 2014 Cannes Film Festival) and sustainable diamond jewelry.
Twitter congregated over her general greatness and the new ‘do. “Whoever is Jane Fonda’s hair stylist needs a raise because her hair is laid!!!!!” one fan wrote. “@Janefonda silver hair is awesome,” another tweeted.
“Between Diane Keaton’s chunky belt and Jane Fonda’s impeccable gray bob I am ready for the Book Club sequel thank you,” someone else commented. “Jane Fonda is 82 years old and still looking bomb as ever we can only choose to stan,” another chimed in.
On Instagram, Fonda shared a few behind-the-scenes photos from the night. “Watching Oscars from dressing room with Jonathan Hanousek, my hair stylist,” she captioned the photo. “Don’t go on till last.” Hanousek is the man behind Fonda’s new cut, and the color was perfected by Jack Martin, who specializes in silver and gray.
In a heartfelt Instagram post, Martin wrote that the shiny transformation was inspired by the regrowth of her salt-and-pepper roots. “The rest was a little tired warm golden blonde,” he wrote. “Her goal color was a silver icy blonde to surprise everyone at the 2020 Oscars.”
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The whole process took seven hours to complete. “Spending 7 hours with this amazing Hollywood star and witnessing her energy, beauty, strength and femininity was so inspiring,” he wrote. Instead of relaxing and enjoying the experience, she used the time to work—writing to meet the deadline for her upcoming book, memorizing lines for Grace and Frankie, which she’s currently shooting (will The Hair be in The Show?!), and communicating with her team “with the sweetest, humblest soul,” Martin added. “She made me feel ashamed to complain of being tired. This experience was extremely great and I will never forget this amazing day.”
For all the hair stylists out there, Martin also provided a complete product and process breakdown on how he achieved the final look.
This iconic change might be Fonda’s first since she cut her long locks in the early ‘70s. “Hair had ruled me for many years,” she wrote in her memoir, My Life So Far. “Perhaps I used it to hide behind. The men in my life liked it long and blonde, and I had been a blonde for so long that I didn’t even know what my own color actually was. I simply said to [hairstylist] Paul McGregor, ‘Do something,’ and he did.”
She called that moment a “hair epiphany.” It must’ve been time for another one.
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