Jane Fonda: 'I'm Rupert Murdoch Marinated in Ted Turner'
That’s how potential 2013 Primetime Emmy nominee Jane Fonda described Leona Lansing, her character in The Newsroom, during a recent Google+ hangout with Gold Derby head prognosticator Tom O’Neil:
“By that, what I mean is – That I am a ferocious businesswoman who looks very, very closely and primarily at the bottom line. But I’m not ruthless. I don’t try to hurt people by telling “not truths.” I think Ted Turner is that way.”
“And that’s why I say Rupert Murdoch, in the sense that she is ruthless in defending her company and in watching the bottom line.
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