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Again in September of 2025, Robert Redford handed away on the age of 89.
And as anticipated, he was prominently in the “In Memoriam” phase of Sunday evening’s Academy Awards.
However whereas most viewers had nothing however reward for the tribute — throughout which Barbra Streisand crooned just a few bars from the title music of her and Redford’s 1973 movie The Means We Have been — a 3rd Hollywood legend is crying foul.
Jane Fonda starred with Redford in 4 movies: The Chase, Barefoot within the Park, The Electrical Horseman, and Our Souls at Evening.
And he or she’s overtly miffed about the truth that the Academy invited Streisand to pay tribute to Redford, even supposing the 2 of them solely made one movie collectively.
“I wanna know the way come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford?” Fonda mentioned on the Vainness Truthful after social gathering (through Parade journal). “She solely made one film with him. I made 4. I’ve extra to say.”
“I used to be all the time in love with him,” Fonda continued, including:
“Essentially the most attractive human being and such nice values and he did loads for motion pictures. He actually modified motion pictures, lifted up unbiased motion pictures.”
“I miss him now greater than ever, even how he cherished teasing me. He’d name me, ‘Babs.’ And I’d say, ‘Bob, you realize, do I seem like a Babs?’ However the way in which he mentioned it made me snicker,” Streisand mentioned on stage on the Oscars, including:
“A few years later, we have been chatting on the cellphone in regards to the regular, politics, artwork, [Amedeo] Modigliani—our favourite. And as we have been hanging up, he mentioned, ‘Babs, I really like you dearly, and I all the time will.’”
Evidently, it was a transferring tribute. However clearly, Fonda felt that it could have meant extra coming from a frequent collaborator of Redford’s — comparable to herself.
She did pen a tribute that appeared on social media and in quite a few information articles within the wake of Redford’s passing.
“It hit me laborious this morning once I learn that Bob was gone. I can’t cease crying. He meant loads to me and was an exquisite individual in each manner,” she wrote on the time.
Fonda concluded her tribute by acknowledging the political contributions of her fellow activist:
“He stood for an America we now have to maintain preventing for,” she wrote.
We might by no means know why Jane Fonda was not invited to pay tribute to her expensive pal. However no less than followers will all the time have the ability to revisit the movies they made collectively.
