Jane Fonda: Cranky Robert Redford hates kissing, has ‘a difficulty with girls’

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford could have starred in 4 motion pictures collectively, however he wasn’t at all times probably the most nice co-star.

“He didn’t prefer to kiss,” the “Grace and Frankie” alum shadily stated Friday throughout the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition (through Deadline), seemingly referring to the on-screen lovers’ PDA-filled scenes.

“I by no means stated something [to him about it], and he’s at all times in a nasty temper, and I at all times thought it was my fault.”

Redford has performed Fonda’s main man in movies together with “Barefoot within the Park” (1967) and “The Electrical Horseman” (1979).

“He’s an excellent individual,” she added. “He simply has a difficulty with girls.”

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Jane Fonda shaded her frequent co-star Robert Redford, who she believes has “a difficulty with girls.”
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“He’s an excellent individual,” she clarified on the Cannes Movie Competition.
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Regardless of his obvious “problem,” on which she didn’t elaborate, the Oscar-winning actress, 85, admitted she was “in love with” the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child” actor, 86, at one time for his humorousness.


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Fonda most not too long ago labored with Redford on 2017’s “Our Souls at Night time,” throughout which she realized that whereas he remained the identical, she had very a lot modified.

“What was I, about 80 years outdated or one thing like that? And I lastly knew I had grown up,” she stated.

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Fonda additionally stated Redford didn’t like kissing his co-stars.
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“When he would come on the set three hours late in a nasty temper, I knew it wasn’t my fault.”

Nonetheless, the “Monster-in-Regulation” star clarified, “We at all times had fun.”

Fonda’s newest feedback contradict what she confessed in 2017 about filming intercourse scenes with Redford.

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Nevertheless, Fonda stated years in the past that Redford was “an important kisser.”
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“I dwell for intercourse scenes with him,” she shared on the time. “He doesn’t like intercourse scenes, [but] he’s an important kisser.”

Redford additionally stated that his friendship with Fonda has “at all times been simple” due to the “love” they’ve for one another.

“There’s a love there, there’s a connection there,” he stated in the identical 2017 interview. “It has to do with what your perspective is about work and what’s your perspective about life.”