Women in Film honored a starry group of women with honorees including Quinta Brunson, TheWomanKing director Gina Prince-Bythewood and DontWorryDarling star-director Olivia Wilde
“I haven’t met her; I know she’s a brave woman, though. She seems willing to jeopardize safety and being accepted for truth and transparency,” Fonda said from the stage of thestar and creator. “What Michaela writes, the way she writes and her values may just be the kinds of things that are going to save the world, if there’s any saving it.”
Coel was not in attendance to accept her honor, but Lake Bell accepted on her behalf with a letter from her, which read, “You [Fonda] so generously posted aboutin 2020, and your recognition did so much for its global reach, and more for my mum’s sense of pride in me than anything I could have ever done alone. And for that I could never repay you.”