Always outspoken and direct, Jane Fonda, now in cinemas with Book Club – The next chapter. she revealed in a TV program a scabrous episode of harassment that took place when she was 27 years old by a famous French director and told how she coped with it.
Wonderful Jane Fonda: even today at 85 beautiful and witty, this true icon of activism, acting and fitness is still on the crest of the wave. Currently in cinemas in Book Club – The next chapterwhile a guest on the show Watch What Happens revealed who was the French director who hit on her heavily when she was young and working in France.
Jane Fonda and René Clément’s indecent proposal
When asked about Andy Cohen who asked Jane Fonda – in a segment of the program that is called Plead the Fifthor three questions posed to whoever is chosen by a spin of the wheel, to which the guest can decide not to answer, appealing to the Fifth Amendment – the name of a Hollywood man who failed to pick her up (said it sounds bad, but that’s how she formulated it), the actress decided to answer, pointing to the French director Rene Clementwho directed her in 1964 when she was 27 and he was 51, in the thriller Chrysanthemums for a crimein which she starred alongside Alain Delon. The way and the reasons for these unwelcome advances are incredible and the “answer” given by Jane Fonda at the time is fantastic: “She wanted to sleep with me because she told me that the character had to have an orgasm in the film and he had to see how they are my orgasms. He said it in French and I pretended not to understand.” The actress had already told this story to CNN in 2017 but without revealing the name of the director, who passed away in 1996. Faced with the surprise reaction of the host, Jane Fonda she waved her hand, and said “Boy, I’ve got a lot of stories, but we don’t have the time”, once again confirming herself as a woman of great humor and character. Below, if you want to see it, the video.
