“A daughter who absolutely worshiped her father who never expressed emotion-he didn’t-who never verbalized any love or affection, who was extremely repressed. “Put yourself in my shoes,” she continues. “Working with my father was just like living with my father: You didn’t get much input.
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“I guess it was the most meaningful movie I’ve done because of working with him and working with her-she had a huge influence on me.”įor Fonda, On Golden Pond was a way for her to address her own complicated relationship with her father. “My dad was sick, and I knew he wasn’t going to live much longer,” Fonda says. The most personal film experience of Fonda’s career was On Golden Pond, which she starred in with her father, legendary actor Henry Fonda, and Katharine Hepburn. “I had to do the same scene that I was so frightened of, with a hangover,” she says. The scene ultimately had to be reshot because a bat kept flying between Fonda and the camera.
“It was difficult for me psychologically to do it,” Fonda shared. Fonda recalls having to get drunk before shooting a nude scene for Barbarella, directed by her then husband Vadim, while struggling with body dysmorphia. Not every film was such a delightful experience. “We were both married and nothing came of it, of course,” Fonda tells V.F., “but I had such a crush on him.”
“I was pretty much doing whatever the man in my life wanted me to do.” Still, Fonda’s career flourished with star-making turns in films like Cat Ballou and Barefoot in the Park, where she “fell in love” with Robert Redford-a costar whom she affectionately calls Bob. “I was married to a Frenchman, and if he didn’t want me to do a particular movie I wouldn’t do it,” says Fonda, referencing her first husband, director Roger Vadim.
While Fonda made a name for herself for bringing fearless women to life in films like 9 to 5 and her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, her own experience as an actress didn’t necessarily start off boldly.
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