Jane Fonda didn’t enjoy the Robert Redford tribute at the Oscars.
The 88-year-old actress and activist revealed, following the March 15 ceremony, that she thought she should have been tapped to honor the late director rather than Barbra Streisand. Streisand, who co-starred with Redford in “The Way We Were,” gave a short speech at the Academy Awards honoring their friendship, and sang a snippet of the movie’s titular track.
“I want to know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford?” Fonda told Entertainment Tonight at the Vanity Fair after party.
Fonda, in a playful tone added that Streisand “only made one movie with him, I made four! I have more to say.” She added that she “was always in love with” Redford, who died at 89 on Sept. 16. “The most gorgeous human being and such great values,” she said. “And he did a lot for movies, he really changed movies, lifted up independent movies.”
During her tribute, Streisand, who played the neurotic, political firebrand Katie Morosky opposite Redford’s WASPy Hubbell Gardiner in “The Way We Were,” called her former costar an “intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail.”
“Bob had a real backbone on and off the screen,” Streisand said, revealing she could not have imagined anyone else in the role. “I miss him now more than ever,” she added.
Fonda, who sported a pin with the text “Block the Merger,” a clear nod to Paramount’s recent bid to purchase Warner Bros, to the Oscars, frequently acted opposite Redford. The pair starred in a string of movies in the ’60s and ’70s, including “The Chase,” “Barefoot in the Park,” and “The Electric Horseman,” then reunited decades later for 2017’s “Our Souls at Night.”
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