Watch: Jane Fonda Talks "Monster-in-Law" Back in 2005Twenty years later, are Kevin and Charlie still married? Did Viola manage to prolong her change of heart and not revert back into being the possessive-and-a-little-bit-homicidal snob who doesn't believe any woman is good enough for her son? (Seriously, you don't mess with a girl's nut allergy...) Well, regardless of the couple's long-term prospects, at least Monster-in-Law-starring Jennifer Lopez as fiancée Charlie and Jane Fonda as the mother-of-the-groom Viola-ended happily, despite the battling over Michael Vartan's Dr. Perfect, who somehow thinks his two favorite women are getting along fine Whether or not Vartan's Kevin was great enough to merit this battle of wills is beside the point, even if now we might prefer seeing a Charlie-shaped hole in the door because she's running away from this unhealthy scenario as fast as she can, with Wanda Sykes' Ruby driving the getaway car. But there are reasons for Viola's breakdown, even if her actions venture into the pathological, and if you dig deep enough beneath this film's woman vs. woman exterior, you can find the feminist edge.photos50 Fascinating Facts About Jennifer Lopez"Oddly enough, that was when I started feeling free," Fonda recalled of the film during a 2011 interview with The New Yorker me. "It was like, F--k it, man!" "It was this stupid popcorn movie," she continued, "but that was a liberating film for me."Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesIndeed, it's a hoot, featuring the return of Fonda from her premature retirement and the kind of cinematic justice that a rom-com heroine like J.

Lo deserves. "It was" joyful, Fonda told E!. "It really was. I don't know if it would have been quite the same if it had been a serious movie, a heavy movie. But it was just perfect, it fit in to exactly where I am. I wanted to laugh." So in honor of this very rewatchable burst of eye candy, here are 15 secrets about about Monster-in-Law...

Ron Galella/WireImageA Prolific Period of Self-DiscoveryWhen she got the Monster-in-Law script, Jane Fonda hadn't been in a movie since 1990's Stanley & Iris, after which she married CNN founder Ted Turner and promptly retired from acting. In a 2013 CNN interview, Fonda remembered Turner telling her on their second date, "'If this is going to work, you're going to have to give up your career.' I'm thinking, this is a little bit early in the relationship for that." The conversation moved on to other things and then Turner came back with, "I just realized, you're not going to give up your career until you win an Oscar,'" she recalled. "I said, 'Ted, I have two.'" "I was planning to do it anyway," she insisted, "so it was partly Ted and partly something I wanted, too." She retired because "I was not happy inside as a woman and I was kind of in denial about it and sort of cut off from my emotions," she recalled to LiveAbout in 2005. "I was living on willpower and its very hard to be creative when you're living on willpower. My last two or three movies were just agony and I said, I don't want to be scared anymore. Then I met Ted Turner and I didn't have to." After they divorced in 2001, "I was celibate for seven years," Fonda shared with Forbes in 2011, "and I discovered I'm fine."New Line/Avery Pix/Kobal/ShutterstockThe Stars Aligned"I'm really different than I was 15 year ago when I decided I didn't want to do it anymore," Fonda told E! News in 2005, asked why she picked Monster-in-Law for her comeback film, "and I was curious to see whether that difference would make the experience more joyful. And then this character came along and I thought, Wow, what a great way to try it out, 'cause she's so over-the-top, and that was why. "It was" joyful, Fonda confirmed. "It really was. I don't know if it would have been quite the same if it had been a serious movie, a heavy movie. But it was just perfect, it fit in to exactly where I am. I wanted to laugh."Melissa Moseley/New Line/Avery Pix/Kobal/ShutterstockArt Reflects Life"When I first saw the script, I didn't know why the mother was so bad," Fonda once told reporters, "so I had to find her a back story." Referencing Viola's multiple onscreen tantrums and flair for drama, she added, "I learned some of the over-the-top behavior from Ted." She explained further to LiveAbout, "He's the only person I know who's had to apologize more than I've. He is an absolute hoot and he is outrageous and he lacks any self-censorship. And at the same time, he's extremely lovable and I had never known anyone like him. So when I got an opportunity to play Viola, it was like I had permission to be over the top because I knew what that could look like." "I don't mean to say that because it's called Monster-in-Law that he's a monster," she continued. "I'm crazy about the man. Absolutely adore him and we're close friends." She and Turner remained friends, even though, according to Fonda's 2005 memoir, My Life So Far, Turner was a serial cheater. Still, "it was really ha