Charlize Theron might be the sexiest woman alive – but who’s the sexiest old person? Jane Fonda’s working on it, at 69.

I’d like to make “a film about eroticism and ageing - a sexy, sensual film about older women,” Fonda was quoted as saying in the German weekly Die Zeit.

“Unfortunately, I don’t get that many offers anymore [for film roles],” she added.

Fonda said if the movie project does not work out, she would throw herself into a book project she is working on.

“I’m going to write a book about ageing particularly targeted at women. I am doing a lot of interviews for it,” she said.

The Melbourne Age

I like the fact that she uses words like ‘old’ in this interview. I’ve heard people in interviews talk about the elderly, ageing people, sunset years, I even heard someone avoid the word old and use the term geriatric (which seems by far more offensive than the term they avoided). While I might not be inclined to star in an erotic film when I get to Jane Seymour’s age, in fact I’m pretty sure I’ll be keeping my kit on for film even now, there are no Paris sex tapes in my hard drive, I’d still like someone to be appreciating it when I get naked for them. At any age.

This comes hot on the heels of this television ad, featuring two people in their 80’s getting it on in a garden. Is this the last sexual taboo we need to get past? Is Jane Fonda, who was so right about us all needing to exercise back in the 1980’s, now about to educate the world on the pleasures of the wrinkled flesh? She did look pretty fabulous when she appeared au naturel on the cover of Good Housekeeping two years ago.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jane Fonda is shown at The Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala on 9/24/07 thanks to PRPhotos.