Jane Fonda Tributes Late Co-Star Robert Redford At TCM Classic Film Festival Opening: “I Had Such A Crush On Him It Was Painful”

Jane Fonda came to open the 17th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival Thursday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, but her purpose was to honor her late co-star Robert Redford. The fest chose to open this year’s four day splash of cherished movies from the past with her 1967 Neil Simon comedy with Redford, Barefoot In The Park preceded by an on-stage conversation with Fonda and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. She wasted no time confessing that she was smitten with Redford right from the start when they met for the first time and made 1966’s The Chase. “I met him on The Chase and we were both married, and I asked him, ‘do you ever have affairs?’, and he said, ‘well if I was gonna have an affair it would be with somebody like a hooker’.  We actually bonded over the film. I think The Chase maybe was his first movie,” she said. On Barefoot she had total recall of certain scenes in the bedroom. “’I remember being in the bed and he would rub up against me. I had such a crush on him, it was painful,” she laughed.

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