Jane Fonda says French director wanted to ‘see what my orgasms have been like’ for a job
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LOS ANGELES: Actress Jane Fonda said on a contemporary episode of ‘Watch What Happens Live’ that French director Rene Clement requested to sleep collectively together with her all through the making of their 1964 thriller ‘Joy House’.
Fonda starred inside the film reverse Alain Delon and Lola Albright, research Variety.
‘Watch What Happens Live’ host Andy Cohen requested Fonda to name “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down.” The Oscar-winning actor replied: “The French director Rene Clement.”
Fonda elaborated: “Well, he wanted to go to bed with me because he said the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like. He said it in French and I pretended I didn’t understand.”
“I have stories for you, kid, (but) we don’t have time,” Fonda added.
Clement was 51 years outdated on the time of producing, whereas Fonda was 27.
Clement was one amongst France’s most prolific filmmakers inside the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, profitable 5 prizes on the Cannes Film Festival all through his career. He died in 1996 at 82 years outdated. The MGM-backed ‘Joy House’ featured Fonda as a woman who falls for a card shark on the run from American gangsters.
Fonda’s revelation comes amid continued criticisms in opposition to the French film commerce for perpetuating abuse. ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ actor Adele Haenel printed an open letter this month throughout which she launched she was leaving the enterprise.
She slammed the Cannes Film Festival for being “ready to do anything to defend their rapist chiefs,” citing filmmakers resembling Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu.
Cannes boss Theirry Fremaux rejected Haenel’s declare, telling press on the 2023 pageant: “She didn’t think that when she came to Cannes unless she suffered from a crazy dissonance.”
He added: “But if you thought that it’s a festival for rapists, you wouldn’t be here listening to me, you would not be complaining that you can’t get tickets to get into screenings.”
Fonda is in the intervening time on the promotional tour for “Book Club: The Next Chapter.”
LOS ANGELES: Actress Jane Fonda said on a contemporary episode of ‘Watch What Happens Live’ that French director Rene Clement requested to sleep collectively together with her all through the making of their 1964 thriller ‘Joy House’.
Fonda starred inside the film reverse Alain Delon and Lola Albright, research Variety.
‘Watch What Happens Live’ host Andy Cohen requested Fonda to name “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down.” The Oscar-winning actor replied: “The French director Rene Clement.”googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Fonda elaborated: “Well, he wanted to go to bed with me because he said the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like. He said it in French and I pretended I didn’t understand.”
“I have stories for you, kid, (but) we don’t have time,” Fonda added.
Clement was 51 years outdated on the time of producing, whereas Fonda was 27.
Clement was one amongst France’s most prolific filmmakers inside the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, profitable 5 prizes on the Cannes Film Festival all through his career. He died in 1996 at 82 years outdated. The MGM-backed ‘Joy House’ featured Fonda as a woman who falls for a card shark on the run from American gangsters.
Fonda’s revelation comes amid continued criticisms in opposition to the French film commerce for perpetuating abuse. ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ actor Adele Haenel printed an open letter this month throughout which she launched she was leaving the enterprise.
She slammed the Cannes Film Festival for being “ready to do anything to defend their rapist chiefs,” citing filmmakers resembling Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu.
Cannes boss Theirry Fremaux rejected Haenel’s declare, telling press on the 2023 pageant: “She didn’t think that when she came to Cannes unless she suffered from a crazy dissonance.”
He added: “But if you thought that it’s a festival for rapists, you wouldn’t be here listening to me, you would not be complaining that you can’t get tickets to get into screenings.”
Fonda is in the intervening time on the promotional tour for “Book Club: The Next Chapter.”
