Actress Jane Fonda was the protagonist of a meeting at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where she spoke about her relationship with colleagues such as Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, and criticized Jean-Luc Godard.
Jane Fondaduring a meeting organized by the Cannes Film Festival 2023, he spoke about his relationship with colleagues such as Robert Redford e Michael Douglasas well as expressing their opinion on director Jean-Luc Godard and Katharine Hepburn.
The actress spared no sarcasm and negative comments, proving to be particularly honest in sharing her experience.
Memories of Jane Fonda
Looking back on her life and career, Jane Fonda stressed that “she was in love” with Robert Redford, but then added: “He didn’t like kissing. I’ve never talked to him about it. And he was always in a bad mood, and I always thought it was my fault. He’s a good guy, he just has a problem with women“.
However, the actress added: “The last film I made with him was six years ago. I was in my 80s or so. And I finally realized that I had grown up. When he came to me on set three hours late and in a bad mood, I knew it wasn’t my fault. We always had fun“.
Jane instead explained that Alain Delon, with whom she filmed Joy House in 1964, loved to kiss her on the set: “It was beautiful then, not so much now. He’s had a difficult life. But at the time he was the most beautiful human being in the world“.
Fonda, on the other hand, did not appreciate the director Jean-Luc Godard, who directed her in Crack master, everything goes: “He was a great filmmaker. I take off my hat to him. An incredible director. But as a man? I am sorry. Ninth“.
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Lessons learned on set
His colleague Lee Marvin was instead a splendid person, despite a problem with alcoholism: “I loved making the movie Cat Ballou. And Lee was fabulous, he was really funny. He was always drunk. We were staying in the same motel and had to drag him up the stairsFurthermore, on the set, the two actors decided to rebel against the production which made them work up to 14 hours a day. Marvin had in fact explained to her that the losers were the workers and members of the crew, forced to work overtime paid little and badly.
Jane Fonda later recalled her experience filming On Golden Pond with her father Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn: “It was one of the most glorious experiences of my life, it was absolutely wonderful. I made the film for my father. But the person I learned from during that film was Katharine. We were all three nominated for an Oscar, me as a supporting actress, she as a protagonist, my father as Best Actor. I didn’t win. They do. And I called her to congratulate her and she said, ‘You’ll never catch up with me!’“.
Jane is convinced that Hepburn didn’t like it very much, just like Michael Douglas who, however, hid it well.
The star instead reiterated that Lily Tomlin is her favorite co-star, with whom she hopes to be able to collaborate again in the future.
