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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” section of Sunday night time’s Academy Awards.

However whereas most viewers had nothing however reward for the tribute — throughout which Barbra Streisand crooned a number of bars from the title track of her and Redford’s 1973 movie The Approach 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 Night time.

And she or he’s brazenly miffed about the truth that the Academy invited Streisand to pay tribute to Redford, even if 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 social gathering (by way of Parade journal). “She solely made one film with him. I made 4. I’ve extra to say.”

“I used to be at all times in love with him,” Fonda continued, including:

“Probably the most beautiful human being and such nice values and he did so much for films. He actually modified films, lifted up impartial films.”

“I miss him now greater than ever, even how he cherished teasing me. He’d name me, ‘Babs.’ And I’d say, ‘Bob, , do I seem like a Babs?’ However the best way he stated it made me giggle,” Streisand stated on stage on the Oscars, including:

“A few years later, we have been chatting on the cellphone in regards to the normal, politics, artwork, [Amedeo] Modigliani—our favourite. And as we have been hanging up, he stated, ‘Babs, I really like you dearly, and I at all times will.’”

Evidently, it was a transferring tribute. However clearly, Fonda felt that it could have meant extra coming from a frequent collaborator of Redford’s — comparable to 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 onerous this morning after I learn that Bob was gone. I can’t cease crying. He meant so much to me and was an exquisite 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 got to maintain preventing for,” she wrote.

We might by no means know why Jane Fonda was not invited to pay tribute to her expensive buddy. However not less than followers will at all times be capable to revisit the movies they made collectively.