Jane Fonda revealed on a current episode of “Watch What Happens Live” that French director René Clément requested to sleep together with her through the making of their 1964 thriller “Joy House.” Fonda starred within the movie reverse Alain Delon and Lola Albright.
“Watch What Happens Live” host Andy Cohen requested Fonda to call “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down.” The Oscar-winning actor replied: “The French director René Clément.”
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.
Clément was 51 years previous on the time of manufacturing, whereas Fonda was 27. Clément was one in every of France’s most prolific filmmakers within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, profitable 5 prizes on the Cannes Film Festival throughout his profession. He died in 1996 at 82 years previous. The MGM-backed “Joy House” featured Fonda as a lady who falls for a card shark on the run from American gangsters.
Fonda’s revelation comes amid continued criticisms in opposition to the French movie trade for perpetuating abuse. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actor Adele Haenel revealed an open letter this month wherein she introduced she was leaving the enterprise. She slammed the Cannes Film Festival for being “ready to do anything to defend their rapist chiefs,” citing filmmakers reminiscent of Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu.
Cannes boss Theirry Fremaux rejected Haenel’s declare, telling press on the 2023 competition, “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 festivals 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 at the moment on the promotional tour for “Book Club: The Next Chapter.” Watch her look on “Watch What Happens Live” within the video under.