At 76, Jane Fonda is still as irrepressible as ever. And the actress - who managed to morph from a 1960s screen siren into an award-winning movie star, an antiestablishment figure and even an exercise guru - is not quite done reinventing herself.

Least of all on screen, where she continues to experiment with her career, whether it is taking on her first television role with The Newsroom in 2012, or creating scene-stealing supporting characters in films such as her latest, This Is Where I Leave You.

The black comedy, which opens in Singapore today, casts her as a lusty, silicone-breasted matriarch whose openness about sex and other intimate details is a constant source of blushes for her four grown children (played by Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll).

She is equally unabashed about this sort of thing in person, as Life! and other press learnt when speaking to her in Los Angeles.

Fonda, who has been gleefully telling reporters how much she enjoyed wearing - and occasionally flashing - her prosthetic boobs on set, says it was important to her to portray a woman of a certain age who is still glamorous and sexual.

It is not hard to see how in real life, she sometimes inadvertently mortifies her real children as well - 47-year-old Vanessa Vadim, her daughter with her first husband, the late Barbarella (1968) director Roger Vadim; 41-year-old Troy Garity, her son with activist Tom Hayden; and Mary Williams, 43, the daughter she adopted with Hayden.

"I do have a problem with oversharing," admits Fonda, who had married and divorced Husband No. 3 - CNN founder Ted Turner - by 2001.

"And my children do get upset about it," she says of her brood, whose adolescent memories are also marked, no doubt, by images of their leotard-clad mother in her best-selling aerobics videos, which helped kick-start the personal fitness craze in the 1980s and 1990s. "So I didn't have to look too hard to get into that place."

Fonda says she was also more than willing to draw on her own family squabbles for her atypical, multi-faceted role in the new movie - partly because female characters such as these are few and far between for older actresses, even a double Oscar-winner such as herself (Klute, 1971, and Coming Home, 1978).

"It was much easier when I was young and starting out," says the performer, who comes from a family of respected actors, notably her father Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men, 1957).

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Hot mama not shy to talk about sex