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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 a couple of 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 brazenly 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 stated on the Vainness Honest after get together (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:
“Probably the most beautiful human being and such nice values and he did rather a lot for films. He actually modified films, lifted up impartial films.”
“I miss him now greater than ever, even how he liked teasing me. He’d name me, ‘Babs.’ And I’d say, ‘Bob, you realize, do I appear like a Babs?’ However the best way he stated it made me snort,” Streisand stated on stage on the Oscars, including:
“A few years later, we have been chatting on the telephone in regards to the typical, politics, artwork, [Amedeo] Modigliani—our favourite. And as we have been hanging up, he stated, ‘Babs, I like you dearly, and I all the time will.’”
Evidently, it was a shifting tribute. However clearly, Fonda felt that it could have meant extra coming from a frequent collaborator of Redford’s — resembling 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 rather a lot to me and was a fantastic particular person in each approach,” she wrote on the time.
Fonda concluded her tribute by acknowledging the political contributions of her fellow activist:
“He stood for an America we’ve to maintain preventing for,” she wrote.
We could by no means know why Jane Fonda was not invited to pay tribute to her expensive good friend. However no less than followers will all the time be capable of revisit the movies they made collectively.