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Jane Fonda, 81, says it's important for seniors to have romance on screen but 'the culture doesn't like people with wrinkles to be talking about sex'

Published: 12:38 EDT, 29 May 2019 | Updated: 13:17 EDT, 29 May 2019

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Jane Fonda thinks it's important for older characters on screen to have sex lives.

And the Grace And Frankie star said playing a woman who wants romance has made her fans happy as older women say 'it's given them hope.' She also noted that 'the culture doesn't like people with wrinkles to be talking about sex.'

The 81-year-old sat for a Hollywood Reporter round table with Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, Regina Hall, Alex Borstein, Natasha Lyonne and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Looking fantastic: Jane Fonda shared that she hears from 'older women who say it's given them hope' to see her sexually frank new work

Jane explained that the 'culture doesn't like people with wrinkles to be talking about sex.'

She added, 'And kids don't like to think about their parents doing it, either. But the fastest-growing demographic in the world is older women, and a lot of them are doing it very pleasurably.'

Possibly referring to the staff on Grace And Frankie, she said: 'I wrote a book about it and I gave it to the writers.'

The screen icon recalled that 'when I was in my 40s, I said before I die I want to be part of giving a cultural face to older women, and I can't tell you how much feedback Lily [Tomlin] and I get from older women who say it's given them hope - and not-so-old women who say: "I now see another way forward."'

While being frank about sex, however, there is one bridge that is too far for Jane these days: 'I think I wouldn't be naked anymore.'

Legends: The 81-year-old sat for a Hollywood Reporter round table with Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, Regina Hall, Alex Borstein, Natasha Lyonne and Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Roadblock: Jane explained that the 'culture doesn't like people with wrinkles to be talking about sex,' adding: 'And kids don't like to think about their parents doing it, either'

Asked if the sexual material she played had changed as she grew older, she quipped: 'I mean, I wouldn't have been talking about vaginal dryness in Barbarella.'

Tiffany, meanwhile, shared that she would not have taken her second-fiddle role to Tracy Morgan on The Last O.G. had she known Girls Trip would make her a star.

'I just show up to do my job and be of service, and have a good time. That's how I look at it. Girls Trip hadn't come out yet when I took that job,' she said of her show.

'If I'd known it was going to make all this money, I would have been like: "I'm sorry, guys, I am going to do my own show. I'm going to do Hollywood And Haddish."'

Glowing: Tiffany meanwhile shared that she would not have taken her second-fiddle role to Tracy Morgan on The Last O.G. had she known Girls Trip would make her a star

Her 'own' series would have been 'a really fun show dealing with the world of female comedians and how to navigate in a man's world.'

Said Tiffany: 'It's such a boys' club and you have to fight your way in and be like: "Yo, I'm just as funny as you. I can be up there just as long as you and I can pack this theater just as well as you."'

She went on: 'It'd be about that and then trying to have a regular life, but guys are afraid to date you because they think you're going to talk about them onstage. It's like: "Please, you're not that poppin'."'

'We have such a fantasy': Natasha held forth on getting sober, saying: 'The simple truth in any conversation about recovery is that things take time'

Looking back: Maya said: 'I learned how to be a woman by watching other women,' recalling: 'I grew up without a mom, so I felt like a female impersonator my whole life'

Alex dished: 'I'm really more of a writer than an actor and the writing is the hardest part of anything. For me, anyway. It's so taxing that to just act is like: "Oh, my God, this is so great to just show up and it's not your problem."'

Phoebe shared: 'When I was starting out doing Crashing and Fleabag and then Killing Eve came along, I was like: "I have to do this. I will break myself to do this because I know the impact it could have on my career."

'I think I'm now at the stage for the first time ever where I'm actually going to take a step back and recharge and think about what I want to write about again. Because when you're writing at that rate for that many years, you forget who you are or what you want to write about.'

'It's so taxing': Alex dished: 'I'm really more of a writer than an actor and the writing is the hardest part of anything'

Career moves: Phoebe shared: 'When I was starting out doing Crashing and Fleabag and then Killing Eve came along, I was like: "I have to do this"'

Said Maya: 'I learned how to be a woman by watching other women. I grew up without a mom, so I felt like a female impersonator my whole life.'

She remembered: 'I didn't want to ask for the information, so I'd go into my friends' bathrooms and I'd peek in their cabinets and be like: "Oh, that's facial cream. OK."'

Natasha held forth on getting sober, saying: 'The simple truth in any conversation about recovery is that things take time. We have such a fantasy about [recovery].

Star turn: Regina said: 'I love being able to be in a period piece [the show is set in the 1980s] because we can't go back with so many periods because then we turn into slaves'

'A movie like 28 Days Later is inherently problematic for us as a society - not that it's not a wonderful movie - because it's dangerous to think that things take [28 days]. "Here I am, cover of Us Weekly, I'm better now, let's get back to business."'

Regina said of her show Black Monday: 'I love being able to be in a period piece [the show is set in the 1980s] because we can't go back with so many periods because then we turn into slaves. I mean, that's it.

'So, it was great to be able to be in the '80s and be successful. And then for her to be as cunning and sharp and unapologetic as she is, I liked that because I find that most women I know are like that.'