Jane Fonda is mourning Robert Redford’s death.
Fonda, 87, addressed her “Barefoot in the Park” co-star’s death at age 89 on Tuesday, shortly after the news broke.
“It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone,” Fonda said in a statement to The Post via her rep.
“I can’t stop crying,” Fonda continued. “He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.”
Redford and Fonda created a long-lasting friendship from working together in five movies.
Their first teamed up on 1960’s “Tall Story,” followed by 1966’s “The Chase,” 1967’s “Barefoot in the Park” and 1979’s “The Electric Horseman.”
Directed by Gene Saks, “Barefoot in the Park” starred Redford and Fonda as a newlywed couple living in a five-flight walk-up apartment in New York City. Fonda was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her performance.
50 years later, the actors reunited onscreen for the last time for the Netflix rom-com “Out Souls at Night,” in which they once again played a couple. Both stars attended the film’s premiere at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
While promoting the movie on “Today” in Sept. 2017, Redford said working with Fonda is always “easy.”
“We’ve done many films over the years so it just worked out that way, that there was not a lot of discussion, we didn’t have to talk about a lot,” he said. “Things just kind of fell into place between us, and there wasn’t much more to think about.”
That same month, Redford called Fonda a “force” during their joint appearance on “Megyn Kelly Today.”
As long as I’ve known Jane she’s always moving forward, and doesn’t look back,” the Oscar winner explained. “And whatever pain, whatever problems she’s had in the past, remains in the past and she keeps moving forward. It’s an admirable quality and very few people have it like Jane does.”
Fonda, for her part, told The Hollywood Reporter at the time that she “couldn’t keep my hands off” Redford when they filmed “Barefoot in the Park.”
“I was constantly forcing myself on him. In ‘Our Souls at Night,’ the dynamic of my character to his character was somewhat similar. I just love the fact that these films bookend our careers,” she shared.
“We played that young love just getting married [in ‘Barefoot’] and now we play old people love and old people sex,” Fonda noted, adding, “He’s a great kisser. It was fun to kiss him in my 20s and then to kiss him again in my almost-80s.”
In May 2023, Fonda told Vulture that she “was in love” with Redford.
“I made four films with him, and for three, I was in love with him. Which meant I had a really good time,” she said.
But Fonda dissed Redford during a panel at the Cannes Film Festival at the time.
“He did not like to kiss,” Fonda claimed. “I never said anything [to him about it]. And he’s always in a bad mood, and I always thought it was my fault.”
“He’s a very good person. He just has an issue with women,” she added of Redford.
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