Jane Fonda has by no means been one to carry again in her decades-long profession, so why would she begin now?

The 2-time Oscar winner spoke for 90 minutes on the Rendezvous with Jane Fonda occasion on the Cannes Movie Competition the place she gave her unfiltered ideas about Hollywood and previous costars, together with Robert Redford, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Douglas and others. Listed below are the juicy highlights.

Robert Redford

“He is an excellent individual,” Fonda shared, in keeping with Deadline. “He simply has a difficulty with ladies.” The actress did not elaborate, however she knew her co-star nicely as they starred in 4 movies collectively: 1966’s The Chase, the display adaption of Barefoot within the Park in 1967, The Electrical Horseman in 1979 and 2017’s Our Souls at Night time. Fonda stated she “was in love” with him throughout these first three movies.

“He didn’t prefer to kiss,” Fonda stated, including: “I by no means stated something [to him about it]. And he is at all times in a foul temper, and I at all times thought it was my fault.”

By their fourth movie, Fonda, out of affection with him, realized it was not her fault: “What was I, about 80 years outdated or one thing like that. And I lastly knew I had grown up. When he would come on the set three hours late in a foul temper, I knew it wasn’t my fault.”

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard directed Fonda in 1972’s Tout Va Bien. “He was an awesome filmmaker. I take my hat off. An ideal filmmaker. However as a person? I am sorry. No, no.”

Lee Marvin

Fonda loved making the 1965 Western-comedy Cat Ballou with Marvin and discovered a number of issues about, and from, her co-star.

“I cherished making the film. And Lee Marvin was fabulous,” she shared. “He was very humorous. He was at all times drunk. We stayed on the identical motel, and so they needed to carry him up the steps.”

“We might shoot generally 14 hours a day,” she added. “And Lee Marvin took me apart and he stated, ‘Fonda, we are the stars of this film. If we enable them to work us so many hours, we’re not those that get harm. It is the crew. Now we have to face up for the employees, for the crew, and we now have to refuse to work these lengthy hours. Now we have to face up for the crew.’ And that had by no means occurred to me. That was an enormous lesson from Lee Marvin.”

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Katharine Hepburn

The 2 had been pals earlier than Hepburn’s dying in 2003, one thing that amused Fonda as a result of the enduring actress “did not like me.”

Fonda made 1981’s On Golden Pond along with her father, Henry Fonda, and Hepburn. “It was one of the crucial superb experiences of my life,” the actress shared, per Vulture. “I made the film for my father, however the individual I discovered from within the film was Katharine Hepburn.” Henry Fonda died in 1982.

“All three of us had been nominated for Oscars, and I did not win, and so they did,” Fonda recalled. “And I referred to as Hepburn as much as congratulate her and he or she stated, ‘You will by no means catch me now!'”

Fonda stated Hepburn was “so attention-grabbing” as a result of “she wished me to maintain speaking about her after she was lifeless, and I discuss her on a regular basis.”

Michael Douglas

An viewers member requested Fonda about the right way to break into the leisure business and in her reply, it led to an anecdote about Douglas, whom she starred alongside in The China Syndrome.

“Do not let the f***ers get you!” she replied. “You have to be sturdy and stand as much as them, however do it in a diplomatic method. You do not need to make enemies. It’s all about relationships. That is the massive mistake I made. I by no means constructed relationships. Michael Douglas is nice at constructing relationships. I do not suppose he actually likes me, however he is very diplomatic.”

Lily Tomlin

Clearly, there was no actual tea to since Fonda confirmed Tomlin is her favourite co-star. We may have instructed you that.