Sally Field has become the latest celebrity to be arrested during Jane Fonda’s weekly climate change protests. in Washington, D.C.
The Mrs Doubtfire actress, 73, was pictured in zip-tie handcuffs outside the Capitol Building on Friday as she was led out of the area by a police officer.
Field seemed positively thrilled by her own civil disobedience, flashing a smile as she triumphantly raised her cuffed hands in the air.
The Oscar winner joins a long list of Fonda’s friends who have been arrested during ‘Fire Drill Friday’ protests.
Ted Danson, Diane Lane, Catherine Keener and Patricia Arquette have all been detained by authorities during previous demonstrations.
Sally Field has become the latest celebrity to be arrested during Jane Fonda’s weekly climate change protests. in Washington, D.C.
Field seemed positively thrilled by her own civil disobedience, flashing a smile as she triumphantly raised her cuffed hands in the air
Fire Drill Fridays are designed to get politicians to address climate change.
Fonda, a two-time Oscar winner, was able to walk free after paying a $50 fine the first three times she was arrested at the Capitol and charged with a misdemeanor.
However, her last arrest on November 1 landed her in jail for the night because it marked her fourth misdemeanor offense.
‘The conditions are not great, frankly, and you have to sleep on a metal slab. And I’m almost 82 years old and I hurt,’ she told The Reporter at the time.
An officer held on to Field’s designer handbag as she was led away
Fonda was seen strutting along outside the Capitol Building – but she seemed to avoid being arrested by police
‘I was in for 20 hours and for seven hours I was in a cell. It was a holding pen. All of the cells had multiple people in them except mine. In my cell, it was just me and the cockroaches.’
Fonda says she’s relocated to Washington, DC – at least, temporarily – after being inspired by climate change activists such as Greta Thunberg.
‘So, I moved here to do an action every Friday called ‘Fire Drill Friday’ because Greta Thunberg says ‘our house is on fire we have to behave appropriately’,’ Fonda told reporters last week.
‘So, we have a fire drill every Friday and every Friday at 11[am] we will have a different focus on climate.’
The 81-year-old actress has vowed to protest in Washington, DC every Friday’ for at least 14 weeks. She is pictured on December 6
The Academy Award winner told The Washington Post last month that she intended on being apprehended while protesting in Washington every Friday for the next 14 weeks.
‘I’m going to take my body, which is kind of famous and popular right now because of [my series, Grace and Frankie}, and I’m going to go to DC and I’m going to have a rally every Friday,’ Fonda said.
‘It’ll be called Fire Drill Friday. And we’re going to engage in civil disobedience and we’re going to get arrested every Friday.’
She will have to leave in January, however, to resume production on her Netflix show Grace and Frankie.
The first arrest occurred on October 11 and saw Fonda getting led away by herself and not alongside any celebrity friends.
Fonda demonstrates near the US Capitol during ‘Fire Drill Friday’ on November 22
But, since then, Fonda has had a number of stars join at her protests, which she’s held for the past seven weeks.
Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Robert F Kennedy Jr and June Diane Raphael are just some of the celebrities who’ve let themselves get arrested.
Before her arrests, Fonda compared the need to address climate change with the urgency Americans faced in the 1930s with the Great Depression.
She was reported as saying: ‘Make no mistake. Change is coming whether we like it or not, by disaster or by design.’
Fonda has a history of protest, being one of the most public faces in the anti- Vietnam War movement of the 1960s and 70s.