Jane Fonda Spoofs Nicole Kidman’s Beloved AMC Theatres Ad With Warner Bros. Twist: “Somehow Mergers Feel Good in a Place Like This”

Jane Fonda put her own spin on Nicole Kidman’s iconic AMC Theatres ad — with a corporate twist.

This week, the two-time Oscar winner shared a parody video of the beloved Kidman commercial that celebrates the moviegoing experience, this time spoofing on the Warners Bros. Discovery merger.

“Come to this place for mergers. We stream to self silence. To censor. To slop,” she said, mimicking Kidman’s beloved monologue from the advert while walking into a movie theater. “Where content is chosen by the best billionaires we have. Dazzling focus-grouped pre-digested content that lets your brain not to do too much thinky thinky.”

Parodying Kidman’s iconic line, “Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this,” Fonda continued, “Somehow corporate greed feels good in a place like this. Somehow mergers feel good in a place like this.”

At the end of the video, a man entered the theater and kicked her out: “You gotta go. We’re about to knock this whole place down in five minutes!”

Fonda recently shared her opinion on Netflix‘s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. In a joint post with the Committee for the First Amendment, the 80 for Brady star said the deal was “an alarming escalation of the consolidation that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the democratic public it serves and the first amendment.”

“Make no mistake, this is not just a catastrophic business deal that could destroy our creative industry. It is a constitutional crisis exacerbated by the administration’s demonstrated disregard for the law,” the statement read, adding directly to the Department of Justice, “We demand that you categorically refrain from using that power to extract political concessions that influence content decisions or chill free speech.”

Watch Fonda’s spoof on Kidman’s AMC ad below.

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