In a candid chat, Jane Fonda reveals her four-time co-star Robert Redford was “always in a bad mood” and has an “issue with women”.
“He did not like to kiss,” the Grace and Frankie alum shadily said Friday during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, according to Deadline, seemingly referring to the on-screen lovers’ PDA-filled scenes, reported Page Six.
“I never said anything [to him about it], and he’s always in a bad mood, and I always thought it was my fault.”
Redford has played Fonda’s leading man in films including Barefoot in the Park and The Electric Horseman.
Fonda revealed Redford was always in a bad mood. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/AFP
“He’s a very good person,” she added. “He just has an issue with women.”
Despite his apparent “issue,” on which she did not elaborate, the Oscar-winning actor admitted she was “in love with” the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid actor at one time for his sense of humour.
Fonda most recently worked with Redford on 2017 movie Our Souls at Night, during which she realised that while he remained the same, she had very much changed.
“What was I, about 80 years old or something like that? And I finally knew I had grown up,” she said.
“When he would come on the set three hours late in a bad mood, I knew it wasn’t my fault.”
Nonetheless, the star clarified, “We always had a good time.”
Fonda and Redford co-starred in four movies, including Barefoot in the Park.
Fonda’s latest comments contradict what she confessed in 2017 about filming sex scenes with Redford.
“I live for sex scenes with him,” she shared at the time. “He doesn’t like sex scenes, [but] he’s a great kisser.”
Redford also said that his friendship with Fonda has “always been easy” because of the “love” they have for each other.
“There’s a love there, there’s a connection there,” he said in the same 2017 interview. “It has to do with what your attitude is about work and what is your attitude about life.”
This article was originally published on Page Six