And she was robbed! That was an extremely tight category that year and Allison Janney was excellent in Masters of Sex, but if you were to look up "killing it" in the dictionary the footnote would read "see Jane Fonda in Red Team III".
This is probably how the conversations behind the scenes in Fox news are going right now. They dont have the trust of the American people anymore.....and CNN is dead. Body mind and soul and fox is trying to catch up.
I remember Jane talked about this scene in an interview a long time ago: "I would have slept with Aaron to give me this scene, I didn't even have to sleep with anybody to get this scene maybe that's why he wrote this scene. It's one of the great scenes for an actress"
Honestly, never have I ever seen such an amazing scene from all of the actors. Jeff Daniels and Sam Waterston hold the scene down, while Emily Mortimer provides the emotion. And then the amazing Jane Fonda busts into the room and completely blows them all out of the water, and just as I'm thinking how could this get any better the incredible Marcia Gay Harden enters saying only one line, and the final two lines that just send chill down my spine, It was absolutely genius for the episode to end right there. It is such a damn shame this show was cancelled because it could have been on the air for at least 7 year if the views had been higher.
1- the concept was f.... up from the getgo : judging real politics ex post through the comfortable lens of a fictional newsroom ? even sorkin, who can be the poster boy for liberal obnoxious ass, realized how stupid it was when he calmed down on the real stuff (santorum view on gays) and started substituting some - reality inspired - fictional character and event (operation genoa). He said himself he didn't know how to write it the first seasons. By the time he got it about right it was too late. Many people, including people who watched the west wing, were fed up with the cringe-inducing moral lecture on real life. 2- sorkin can write some seriously awesome lines but if you ve already seen one his shows you kind of ve seen them all. Style is one thing but he has a style so strong that it ends up putting everything else in the background. You can practically hear him through some characters. 3 - no show should last 7 seasons. Breaking bad got 5 The wire 5 Mad men got 7 and from season 3 it lost its mojo, House of cards got soapy from season 2, THe list goes on.
He's an amazing actor. Hugely underrated even with his level of acclaim. Him and Daniels are an incredible duo and the scenes he does with Oliver Munn just fucking crackle.
FOX news will always have the trust of stupid, stupid, delusional people and that's their entire audience. Added to which, in a weird way Fox news is similar to ACN in that its owner doesn't care about it turning a profit. It exists to distort the national conversation. The other news networks by and large maintain journalistic and factual standards (you'd have to be a reflexive "both-sides" spouting ignoramus to claim otherwise) but they have to make a profit so there are many stories they just won't do because they're not sexy, and a whole lot of drek they'll air because it is (see the Casey Anthony episode for a dramatized version of that sentence).
@@raggedcritical Nice try trying to sneak that 'ignoramus' comment under my radar by not having the guts to reply to me directly. But anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes looking at the lies spouted by MSNBC and CNN (first glorifying democratic figures calling for blm riots and then back peddling on them when people were dying and claiming Trump didn't say anything against those riots being an obvious and recent example of their fireworks displays of deceit) knows that both sides of the political big media spectrum are pushing hand picked bullshit. This is not a debate. I'm stating a fact. Your acceptance of it is irrelevant.
ROFL Fox news? One mainstream outlet vs literally the entirety of other news outlets, talk shows, and networks. Give me a break. The deck is stacked so far to the left you'd have to be blind to think somehow Fox is the problem. That's not to say that Fox isn't ridiculously right leaning, but they are far outweighed by every other news outlet's left leaning "news". The silver lining is people are watching them less and less.
Person said something someone else wrote, I am in love. Favourite actors I could understand, but favourite people simply because they delivered lines written by someone else?
I like how in this story there are no real bad guys among the main cast. Everyone had their foibles but at their heart they are good people. In the beginning of the series you get the feeling that you're going to hate both Ms. Lansing and her son Reese. Turns out later they aren't that bad of people. The real enemy in this series are lies, and the people who tell them, and they never lost that focus.
Had to come here again and watch this scene. It was just from top to tail perfection. The dialogue is so polished and it just doesn't feel like it's being over dramatised or over-expositioned. It feels like I'm in the room with them whilst they decide what they're going to do.
Jane Fonda has Always been a powerhouse of brains, beauty and integrity. Her moral center has helped me understand for decades that the unpopular correct thing is alweays better than the popular wrong thing. I'm proud of the person I became Because People like her existed as role models.
This is some of the best acting Jane Fonda has done in EVER! Really wonderfully played. A great scene with great actors. How Fonda pulls off glib, smart, insightful yet stoned is just perfectly done!
I have watched this scene a zillion times and I just now noticed that at 0:57 Leona picks up Mackenzie’s drink and starts sipping it 😂😂. I assumed that was a power move of some sort but then I remembered she was stoned and she was probably just thirst. It’s absolutely iconic.
So there is this thing you get taught when taking writing classes about scenes within scenes. There is the scene within the movie’s plot, aka how it fits into the larger story. There is the character within the scene, aka how the character moves through a scene. And then there is the scene within a monologue, aka how a character moves within their own mind. The best work meet all the needs while feeling organic. Leona’s moment here is one of the greatest examples: this moment has to introduce the character, sum up the conflict, let us know how ACN fits within the larger world, motivate our main characters (but first bring them down), and also be entertaining. Also, within all that, remind us that Jane Fonda is Jane Fucking Fonda. One of the best parts about Sorkin is ornamentation. He’s not a brisk and clean writer. He dangles all these little bits of glass from each line; never missing an opportunity to have an aside or parenthetical. He uses these little ornaments to reveal character but also to give us hooks to hold as we move through the scene. These hooks also give the other actors so much to react to, which is important since his dialogue can often make actors look like they are sucking in enough breath to get through their next mountain of dialogue. But my favorite thing about Sorkin is that, even tho it’s tv and movies, he makes every conversation feel like it’s on stage. Shit happens within dialogue in a sorkin work, even with great cinematography and lighting, even with huge mountains of dialogue, every Sorkin scene feels like some big time actor is on a stage, live and breathing, in front of you working to earn your attention.
Of course, the scene was written that way, but by gawd that Fonda woman can act. She dominates the scene from start to finish. One of the best in the series so far.
@@scotte2815 she has paid her dues. Go back and watch Klute, Julia, The China Syndrome. They Shoot Horses Don’t They? And try and say she isn’t talented. The thing Jane proves mostly is how great American Christians are a holding grudges.
@@alanclark9326 WOW! Blame holding grudges on Christianity while defending an unamerican hypocrite. And WHAT dues has she paid? What currency has she offered in payment of her disrespect to American servicemen while aiding and abiding foreign enemies during a time of war? I'll wager that you voted for the likes of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Osamabama, and Hillary? and as for talent, nope, I don't see any!
@@scotte2815 hay MAGGOT who else but the Christians? The evangelicals to be specific. It will always tickle the shit out of me the idiots cashed in on the orange shit stain. All creditability gone for generations. Daddy Falwell would be crying. Praise be bro.
There’s nothing greater in life then when you have men/women of integrity willing to sacrifice themself even when they didn’t make a mistake just to protect a higher principle. And tue person in ultimate charge, stands by you. It’s people and ethics like this that allows true progress in the world to happen.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the stellar acting here and how incredibly stunning Ms. Fonda looks in this scene? She is classic and ballsy, and that wearing that dress like the absolute QUEEN she is. Loved this show so much. Well written, paced, tense and good. They just do no make series like this anymore.
I watch so much crap TV and movies and I just found Jane Fonda. This is easily one of my all time favorite scenes. She was brilliant in it. The show itself was good, at least the idea behind it. I didn't care much for the love battles that were happening in the background. This show seems to be dealing with a critical topic in today's world, unbiased and professional news and commentary.
I'm not sure it's possible for Aaron Sorkin to write anything more impressive than this. And for these powerhouse actors to portray such an incredible story. After all this time, this is still brilliant and impactful. This is the America that I long for
The whole season was a bit of a bust. It seemed a lot weaker than the first season. That is what I thought going into this scene. The Jane Fonda comes along and makes all the time spent watching the show worthwhile. Talk about a dramatic payoff.
yeah, the season tried to juggle both the fact that Newsroom had set out to provide a (new)standard for news-reporting and journalism while at the same time dealing with the immense fallout from completely botching what Operation Genoa was about.
I disagree I think the show is strongest when it goes totally fictional instead of piggybacking real events which can age badly or just seem overly sentimental/political. Genoa is an original a gripping story told in a flashback format where the people are being grilled by the lawyers after a big dramatic event and each episode gets you closer and closer to finding out what it is.
As much as he wrote "the truth" about his subjects, he leaves out the real truth about religiosity and he seems to think everyone watching his series ( _The West Wing_ also) actually cares about who is dating and fucking whom.
Crazy when this show aired people thought it was a little pretentious and over the top but it seems tame compared to what people call "news" today. Can you imagine this show in an era where Newsmax exists? 🤣
Well, no. It's not as if the others aren't acting well. You've confused the intended power of the character in the script with the people (actors) playing the other lines in the script. It's written to MAKE LEONA the high priestess of the scene. It's probably written backwards from the final line to MAKE the others look like pussies and to be reminded of their highest principles and to reveal how much heart and principle and wiles Leona actually has. But they all acted superbly, and in full character ... given their roles to support the final line by Leona.
One of the best episodes of TV Aaron Sorkin has ever done and that is saying something. This episode and episodes 4-7 of season 1 can go against anything the West Wing could bring to the table besides Noèl and Two Cathedrals (which might be the best hour of TV ever)
GOD I LOVE SORKIN! It is so sad that of all the shows he has done with politics and news, that what is happening in the USA and the world should make us wish that real people acted like TV shows. I am heart broken that I come to these clips to feel good for a moment. 😟
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"You will resign when I fire you out of petty malice and not before." Love that line.
Yeah so did everyone else champ, they all wrote the same thing
@@JD-lz2uqNow, now.
This scene got her an Emmy nomination. 3 minutes onscreen was all she needed.
And she was robbed! That was an extremely tight category that year and Allison Janney was excellent in Masters of Sex, but if you were to look up "killing it" in the dictionary the footnote would read "see Jane Fonda in Red Team III".
She shouldn't have. But then again these award shows have no credibility anyways.
This is probably how the conversations behind the scenes in Fox news are going right now. They dont have the trust of the American people anymore.....and CNN is dead. Body mind and soul and fox is trying to catch up.
@@scottwall8419 lmao
She’s her father’s daughter.
She’s got juror no.7 running through her veins.
"You will resign when I fire you out of petty malice and not before"
Dies. Ha!
Favourite line in this scene
I've got some kickass courtroom outfits
...why is it made me warm and fuzzy inside my dead corp slave heart?
Leona's self-awareness is breathtaking xD
"You will resign when I fire you out of petty malice and not before." Classic
Doesn't everyone want to be Daniel Craig?
I remember Jane talked about this scene in an interview a long time ago: "I would have slept with Aaron to give me this scene, I didn't even have to sleep with anybody to get this scene maybe that's why he wrote this scene. It's one of the great scenes for an actress"
I fuckin love that part. "GET IT BACK!!!" More proof that Jane Fonda is a Legend.
For a commie lover.. 😐
@@JohnSmith-gb5vg shut up geek
"Get it back!!!" What a brilliant scene.
One of my favourites!
And that immediate cut to black is just perfection 🥰
"Mrs. Lancing..."
"No no, call me...continue to call me Mrs. Lancing."
hahahahaha
Honestly, never have I ever seen such an amazing scene from all of the actors. Jeff Daniels and Sam Waterston hold the scene down, while Emily Mortimer provides the emotion. And then the amazing Jane Fonda busts into the room and completely blows them all out of the water, and just as I'm thinking how could this get any better the incredible Marcia Gay Harden enters saying only one line, and the final two lines that just send chill down my spine, It was absolutely genius for the episode to end right there. It is such a damn shame this show was cancelled because it could have been on the air for at least 7 year if the views had been higher.
Ryan Davies
I know!
Wasn't it just a delight!!
You simply do have good taste, Mr. Ryan Davies
Functional Savants
HAHA thank you very much. You clearly do as well :)
1- the concept was f.... up from the getgo : judging real politics ex post through the comfortable lens of a fictional newsroom ? even sorkin, who can be the poster boy for liberal obnoxious ass, realized how stupid it was when he calmed down on the real stuff (santorum view on gays) and started substituting some - reality inspired - fictional character and event (operation genoa). He said himself he didn't know how to write it the first seasons. By the time he got it about right it was too late. Many people, including people who watched the west wing, were fed up with the cringe-inducing moral lecture on real life.
2- sorkin can write some seriously awesome lines but if you ve already seen one his shows you kind of ve seen them all. Style is one thing but he has a style so strong that it ends up putting everything else in the background. You can practically hear him through some characters.
3 - no show should last 7 seasons. Breaking bad got 5 The wire 5 Mad men got 7 and from season 3 it lost its mojo, House of cards got soapy from season 2, THe list goes on.
I couldn't disagree more, but that's quite alright
I couldn't agree more. Saw the episode last night. One of the best I've ever seen on television
"I got some kick-ass court room outfits!" Awesome!
"I got some kick ass courtroom outfitts!"
One of my favorite lines of this show ever.
the way she says ''why so glum sugar plum?'' and saunters airily over to mortimer made me almost faint
Sounded like the Joker from Batman.
And who's drink did she pick up? Lol
The simple reaction of Sam blowing air out his cheek is just one of the million brilliant acting nuances from this show. I miss it.
He's an amazing actor. Hugely underrated even with his level of acclaim. Him and Daniels are an incredible duo and the scenes he does with Oliver Munn just fucking crackle.
This show is criminally underrated.
This comment is as well!
this show is as phony-bolony as the actors and as the fake-news media
@@scotte2815 You get your news from OAN, huh?
So was Studio 60 on the sunset strip
I swearr!
"GET IT BACK!" always gives me chills.
Just when you think Newsroom can't get any better, Jane Fonda blows into the room and blasts everyone away. She's a national treasure
HBO: We’ve cancelled The Newsroom.
Me: 3:46
The way she delivered the line at the very end...was EVERYTHING.
If losing the people's trust = Handing in your resignation, we wouldn't have FOX News tomorrow
or CNN. or MSNBC. Or the BBC. Or pretty much any big news corporation with sponsors who have financial stakes in political parties.
FOX news will always have the trust of stupid, stupid, delusional people and that's their entire audience. Added to which, in a weird way Fox news is similar to ACN in that its owner doesn't care about it turning a profit. It exists to distort the national conversation.
The other news networks by and large maintain journalistic and factual standards (you'd have to be a reflexive "both-sides" spouting ignoramus to claim otherwise) but they have to make a profit so there are many stories they just won't do because they're not sexy, and a whole lot of drek they'll air because it is (see the Casey Anthony episode for a dramatized version of that sentence).
@@raggedcritical Nice try trying to sneak that 'ignoramus' comment under my radar by not having the guts to reply to me directly. But anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes looking at the lies spouted by MSNBC and CNN (first glorifying democratic figures calling for blm riots and then back peddling on them when people were dying and claiming Trump didn't say anything against those riots being an obvious and recent example of their fireworks displays of deceit) knows that both sides of the political big media spectrum are pushing hand picked bullshit.
This is not a debate. I'm stating a fact. Your acceptance of it is irrelevant.
ROFL Fox news? One mainstream outlet vs literally the entirety of other news outlets, talk shows, and networks. Give me a break. The deck is stacked so far to the left you'd have to be blind to think somehow Fox is the problem. That's not to say that Fox isn't ridiculously right leaning, but they are far outweighed by every other news outlet's left leaning "news". The silver lining is people are watching them less and less.
@Steve B Yep.
"I've got some kickass courtroom outfits"
What a perfect ending to an episode.
I barely knew who Jane Fonda was before watching this show. After watching this scene she has become one of my favorite people.
better late than never, check out her social contributions in the late 60s if you haven't already.
Person said something someone else wrote, I am in love.
Favourite actors I could understand, but favourite people simply because they delivered lines written by someone else?
@@aaronleverton4221 It reads to me more like they loved how she delivered the lines, checked her out, and she has become a favorite person.
"You know, my make-up lasts a long time."
I like how in this story there are no real bad guys among the main cast. Everyone had their foibles but at their heart they are good people. In the beginning of the series you get the feeling that you're going to hate both Ms. Lansing and her son Reese. Turns out later they aren't that bad of people. The real enemy in this series are lies, and the people who tell them, and they never lost that focus.
I fucking loved that episode, especially this part! "GET IT BACK!" Cut to black...
Had to come here again and watch this scene. It was just from top to tail perfection. The dialogue is so polished and it just doesn't feel like it's being over dramatised or over-expositioned. It feels like I'm in the room with them whilst they decide what they're going to do.
Jane Fonda has Always been a powerhouse of brains, beauty and integrity. Her moral center has helped me understand for decades that the unpopular correct thing is alweays better than the popular wrong thing. I'm proud of the person I became Because People like her existed as role models.
This is some of the best acting Jane Fonda has done in EVER! Really wonderfully played. A great scene with great actors. How Fonda pulls off glib, smart, insightful yet stoned is just perfectly done!
I have watched this scene a zillion times and I just now noticed that at 0:57 Leona picks up Mackenzie’s drink and starts sipping it 😂😂. I assumed that was a power move of some sort but then I remembered she was stoned and she was probably just thirst. It’s absolutely iconic.
Does Jane Fonda make anyone else question their sexual orientation?
Mmmmm, Barbarella.
No, she confirms it.
In this scene. Abso-fuckin-lutely.
I don't question it anymore, bisexual to the core
What would it be like to work for someone with principles and enough money that they didn't have to compromise them for anyone.... ever?
Beautiful. It would be amazing, motivating.
Beautiful. It would be amazing, motivating.
It would be..........gratifying.
Don't know, but the character you're talking about also told these same people "I have business before this Congress!".
So, I guess life is messy.
"Get it back!" What a parting shot.
Don’t horn in on my honorable thing! Classic!
So they get tricked by him, let it be known what he did, and now because no one will hire him because of HIS actions, he gets to sue them?
So there is this thing you get taught when taking writing classes about scenes within scenes. There is the scene within the movie’s plot, aka how it fits into the larger story. There is the character within the scene, aka how the character moves through a scene. And then there is the scene within a monologue, aka how a character moves within their own mind. The best work meet all the needs while feeling organic. Leona’s moment here is one of the greatest examples: this moment has to introduce the character, sum up the conflict, let us know how ACN fits within the larger world, motivate our main characters (but first bring them down), and also be entertaining. Also, within all that, remind us that Jane Fonda is Jane Fucking Fonda.
One of the best parts about Sorkin is ornamentation. He’s not a brisk and clean writer. He dangles all these little bits of glass from each line; never missing an opportunity to have an aside or parenthetical. He uses these little ornaments to reveal character but also to give us hooks to hold as we move through the scene. These hooks also give the other actors so much to react to, which is important since his dialogue can often make actors look like they are sucking in enough breath to get through their next mountain of dialogue.
But my favorite thing about Sorkin is that, even tho it’s tv and movies, he makes every conversation feel like it’s on stage. Shit happens within dialogue in a sorkin work, even with great cinematography and lighting, even with huge mountains of dialogue, every Sorkin scene feels like some big time actor is on a stage, live and breathing, in front of you working to earn your attention.
Your comments deserve a hell of a lot more than two Likes. Which is the count, as I write. Viva.
Two things: Leona's character has already been introduced, and Sorkin started as a playwright. But yes.
Sometimes he can feel a little bit pretentious, but I agree.
"You look like Daniel Craig, get up."
"You look less like him now, sit back down."
"Guy comes here into my hizzie" ahahaha
How does “GET IT BACK” not win her an Emmy immediately?
Long live Leona Lansing!
Just a kickass scene. "GET IT BACK!"
Jane Fonda was so brilliant here.
Wonder if Daniel Craig has seen this :)
Of course, the scene was written that way, but by gawd that Fonda woman can act. She dominates the scene from start to finish. One of the best in the series so far.
jane fonda can act, regardless of what you may think of her
her father's daughter.
yes she does petty spoiled rich bitch so convincingly
oh wait,
THAT"S NOT ACTING!
that's just her being her
@@scotte2815 she has paid her dues. Go back and watch Klute, Julia, The China Syndrome. They Shoot Horses Don’t They? And try and say she isn’t talented. The thing Jane proves mostly is how great American Christians are a holding grudges.
@@alanclark9326 WOW! Blame holding grudges on Christianity while defending an unamerican hypocrite.
And WHAT dues has she paid? What currency has she offered in payment of her disrespect to American servicemen while aiding and abiding foreign enemies during a time of war?
I'll wager that you voted for the likes of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Osamabama, and Hillary?
and as for talent, nope, I don't see any!
@@scotte2815 hay MAGGOT who else but the Christians? The evangelicals to be specific. It will always tickle the shit out of me the idiots cashed in on the orange shit stain. All creditability gone for generations. Daddy Falwell would be crying. Praise be bro.
Man do we ever need an Aaron Sorkin show.
Brilliant scene.Jane Fonda gets very little air time on this tv show, but, man, when she's on screen you see talent and charisma.
"get it back !" chills every time
There’s nothing greater in life then when you have men/women of integrity willing to sacrifice themself even when they didn’t make a mistake just to protect a higher principle. And tue person in ultimate charge, stands by you.
It’s people and ethics like this that allows true progress in the world to happen.
Man, I keep coming back for this.
I feel like none of the other actors knew what Jane Fonda's lines for this scene would be and they're just reacting to the randomness.
"Guy comes here, into my hizzy?" haha i love that
That is friggin Jane Fonda for you.
This scene was INCREDIBLE!
"Get it back!"
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the stellar acting here and how incredibly stunning Ms. Fonda looks in this scene? She is classic and ballsy, and that wearing that dress like the absolute QUEEN she is. Loved this show so much. Well written, paced, tense and good. They just do no make series like this anymore.
Jane Fonda only needed one scene. ONE SCENE! Absolutely brilliant!
that was such a feeble "we're not fucking aroud" - great delivery from Sam Waterston
that "get it back" though
Aaron Sorkin brings out the best in any actor.
The veteran actors on this show completely kicked ass 👍
I watch so much crap TV and movies and I just found Jane Fonda. This is easily one of my all time favorite scenes. She was brilliant in it.
The show itself was good, at least the idea behind it. I didn't care much for the love battles that were happening in the background. This show seems to be dealing with a critical topic in today's world, unbiased and professional news and commentary.
I’m sad that we can’t have real news like this and we don’t have more shows like this.
There wasn’t that many good TV shows in that time
one of the best scenes from a show filled with great scenes!!
I'm not sure it's possible for Aaron Sorkin to write anything more impressive than this. And for these powerhouse actors to portray such an incredible story. After all this time, this is still brilliant and impactful. This is the America that I long for
What a great program! I really miss it!
I think this is one of the greatest scenes of the show.
Jane Fonda is working that dress and that hair.
Funny, commanding, inspiring and emotional, in 3 minutes
"GET IT BACK" - so powerful
The whole season was a bit of a bust. It seemed a lot weaker than the first season. That is what I thought going into this scene.
The Jane Fonda comes along and makes all the time spent watching the show worthwhile. Talk about a dramatic payoff.
yeah, the season tried to juggle both the fact that Newsroom had set out to provide a (new)standard for news-reporting and journalism while at the same time dealing with the immense fallout from completely botching what Operation Genoa was about.
I disagree I think the show is strongest when it goes totally fictional instead of piggybacking real events which can age badly or just seem overly sentimental/political.
Genoa is an original a gripping story told in a flashback format where the people are being grilled by the lawyers after a big dramatic event and each episode gets you closer and closer to finding out what it is.
"GET IT BACK!"
Fuckin' right!
This show was Church💯 Thank you Writers, Actors, and the Entire Teams behind it
Jane Fonda steals every scene she's in.
Arron Sorkin can write, regardless of what you may know about him
whats he writing now...any word/
As much as he wrote "the truth" about his subjects, he leaves out the real truth about religiosity and he seems to think everyone watching his series ( _The West Wing_ also) actually cares about who is dating and fucking whom.
He's the best!
@@penboyasgod6103 just cause u don't care, doesn't mean everyone doesn't.
One of the best shows on TV.
Ok I start watching this show right away!
Jane Fonda is astounding!
Crazy when this show aired people thought it was a little pretentious and over the top but it seems tame compared to what people call "news" today. Can you imagine this show in an era where Newsmax exists? 🤣
Fonda! She's such a legend
This Lady is breathtakingly gorgeous... #JaneFonda
Fitting to see this on Nov 7 2020, while the world celebrates.
LOL so many big names in one room and Jane Fonda still schools them on how to act.
Well, no. It's not as if the others aren't acting well. You've confused the intended power of the character in the script with the people (actors) playing the other lines in the script. It's written to MAKE LEONA the high priestess of the scene. It's probably written backwards from the final line to MAKE the others look like pussies and to be reminded of their highest principles and to reveal how much heart and principle and wiles Leona actually has. But they all acted superbly, and in full character ... given their roles to support the final line by Leona.
One of the best scenes to punctuate a season ever.
Jane Fonda walks into a room and fucking owns it.
“Get it back!” Awesome ending scene.
KL M “and jerry dantana’s not going to get one fffffucking dollar!” 😂 awesome scene
Go in Jane Fonda. This bish can act.
One of the best episodes of TV Aaron Sorkin has ever done and that is saying something. This episode and episodes 4-7 of season 1 can go against anything the West Wing could bring to the table besides Noèl and Two Cathedrals (which might be the best hour of TV ever)
I really do need to get me some HBO! This looks like a winner and I want to see it all.
Get it back!
One of the best Shows made ever.
fuckkkk she's good. Great actress.
You don't get to be prouder of Jane Fonda... It just doesn't happen after watching this.
It's 2020 and the press still haven't gotten the TRUST the the public back.
Update: It's worse. It's so much worse.
Remember when the public cared ?
Wow! what a great scene! That is why Jane Fonda is a great star.
Good God that show was great.
GOD I LOVE SORKIN! It is so sad that of all the shows he has done with politics and news, that what is happening in the USA and the world should make us wish that real people acted like TV shows. I am heart broken that I come to these clips to feel good for a moment. 😟
She looks pretty damn good for however the hell old she is. Good blood lines.
Beautiful touch showing the end credits on the clip, it was a *mic drop* moment for sure!
Just stop for a moment and marvel at the thespianic firepower in that scene: Fonda, Harden, Waterston, Daniels, and Mortimer. Jesus Horatio Christ.
I love this clip. Jane Fonda saying "hizzy" is hilarious.