Jane Fonda Says Lindsay Lohan Needs to Stay “In-Check”

I guess Jane Fonda doesn’t think that Dina Lohan is much of a role-model, nor that she nurtures Lindsay Lohan enough. [heh] We knew that. Dina is too focused on making that evil dollar.

Jane Fonda praised a studio executive’s recent scolding of Lindsay Lohan for her absences on the set of their film, “Georgia Rule.”

“I think every once in a while, a very, very young person who is burning both ends of the candle needs to have somebody say, `You know, you’re going to pay the piper, you better slow down.’ So I think it was good,” the 68-year-old actress told “Access Hollywood” in an interview to air Tuesday.

In July, James G. Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, chided Lohan, 20, in a letter for her behavior on a movie set and doubted her absence was related to heat exhaustion. “We are well aware that your ongoing all-night, heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called ‘exhaustion,”‘ he wrote. Fonda agrees.

“She’s in the magazines, so you always know what she’s doing because you can just read about it in the tabloids,” she says. “She parties all the time … And you know, she’s young and she can get away with it. But, you know, it’s hard after a while to party very hard and work very hard. She learned that, I hope.”

Fonda is still sympathetic toward Lohan, who is estranged from her imprisoned father Michael Lohan.

“I just want to take her in my arms and hold her until she becomes grown-up,” she says. “She’s so young and she’s so alone out there in the world in terms of structure and, you know, people to nurture her. And she’s so talented.” source

UPDATE (James): While there’s something to be said for age and experience–and Fonda’s right in this case–she’s an odd source for this advice.

Lohan just turned 20 in July. Not only was, as Chris notes below, Fonda starring in crap like “Barbarella” at the age of 30 (despite the advantages of having a famous actor as her father) but she was providing aid and comfort to the enemies of her country at the age of 35.

Frankly, I’d have preferred it if she’d instead gotten drunk and flashed her bare crotch to the paparazzi.

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