Netflix Honors Jane Goodall with 'Famous Last Words' Episode Release
Netflix's docuseries features Jane Goodall's final reflections and messages recorded before her passing, preserving her legacy as a pioneering primatologist and environmental advocate.
- Netflix released the first episode of Famous Last Words featuring Jane Goodall's final interview after her death on October 1, 2025, in California at age 91.
- Goodall's groundbreaking work began in 1960 in Tanzania, where she studied wild chimpanzees and challenged human uniqueness by observing tool use.
- The interview, recorded earlier this year in private, reveals her final reflections, including never before heard stories and a message of hope for humanity.
- Goodall urged, "For the children alive today... you have it in your power to make a difference" and said, "even today... there still is hope. Don't lose hope."
- This posthumous episode commemorates Goodall's legacy as a fearless conservationist whose work continues to inspire global environmental and humanitarian efforts.
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Jane Goodall’s final interview featured on new Netflix series ‘Famous Last Words’
Each episode of the series will feature a wide-ranging interview with a cultural icon who agreed the conversation wouldn’t be aired until after they died.
In 'Famous Last Words', the programs are only broadcast after the interviewee's death – just like in 'The Last Word'.
Los Angeles (USA), 3 Oct (EFE).- Netflix announced this Friday the publication of a posthumous and deeply intimate interview by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall (1934-2025), a conversation that was recorded under the promise not to reveal itself until her death. “In early March of this year, she filmed an interview with Netflix that, according to her, would only be published after her death,” reported the entertainment colossus in a brief via…
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