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Jane Fonda Accepts BAFTA Award While She’s Arrested

Jane Fonda is taking multitasking to new heights.

The “Grace and Frankie” star wasn’t in attendance on the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday evening to simply accept the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film as a result of, earlier within the day, she was arrested in Washington, D.C. throughout a local weather change protest. But handcuffs and a police escort didn’t cease her from accepting her award.

As officers arrested her from the D.C. scene, Fonda yelled, “BAFTA, thank you!” She continued, whereas being hauled off. “Thank you! I’m sorry I’m not there! I’m very honored!”

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BAFTA Los Angeles performed the quick clip on the ceremony and later shared it on Twitter:

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Folks, @Janefonda accepted the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award WHILE BEING ARRESTED. #Britannias pic.twitter.com/LDbZKTZWrs

— BAFTA Los Angeles (@BAFTALA) October 26, 2019

The Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film honors these “legendary individuals whose work is stamped with the indelible mark of authorship and ingenuity.”

Fonda, together with actor Ted Danson and dozens of different folks, was arrested Friday for unlawfully demonstrating, based on Yahoo. They had been charged with crowding, obstructing and incommoding. Fonda has already been arrested twice this month whereas main local weather change protests, however stated she plans on persevering with to talk out for the subsequent a number of months.

“I decided I needed to do more about climate change, so I moved to D.C. for four months and tried to heighten the sense of urgency that there needs to be,” Fonda stated throughout an prolonged clip performed on the awards ceremony. “It’s a crisis, not just here but all over the world.”

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Celebrity arrests: It’s like taking a look at a automobile accident. You do not need to give into the tabloids, however a part of you additionally needs to know what they did to deserve a mug shot. Here are 17 arrests that had been embarrassing — both for the celeb or the police who booked ’em.

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Jane Fonda

The metropolis was Cleveland, Ohio, the yr was 1970, and Fonda was contemporary off filming “Klute.” Customs officers on the airport confiscated her nutritional vitamins and arrested her for drug smuggling. The actress was launched on bond, and months later, after the drugs had been examined, officers admitted they had been certainly solely nutritional vitamins.

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David Bowie

Bowie was arrested in Rochester, New York, in 1976 for pot possession after a live performance. He was arrested alongside Iggy Pop and two different co-defendants.

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Shia LeBeouf

Back in 2015, LeBeouf was arrested on an intoxication cost in Austin, Texas. He was launched on bail. It’s not the one time the actor has been arrested; he was arrested in January in New York throughout a rally in opposition to Donald Trump.

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Lindsay Lohan

Everyone’s favourite “Mean Girl” has spent many nights in jail. This mug shot was taken when she was booked into the Lynnwood Correctional Facility to serve three months after breaking her probation following two DUI arrests in 2007.

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Chace Crawford

The former “Gossip Girl” star was arrested in 2010 for marijuana possession underneath 2 oz. earlier than being launched.

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