Jane Fonda Shares Why Hardships Make Life ‘Better’ With Age: ‘You Know What’s Important’

Jane Fonda had quite the late-night escapade.

Jane Fonda opened up about going skinny dipping with Michael Jackson.

Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren, seen posing with their felines. Longtime art collector Klaus Moeller uncovered a cabinet of files containing some 25million negatives that had lain unopened for decades.  They show Elizabeth Taylor cuddling her Siamese cat, Jane Fonda lounging in bed with her kitties and Italian actress Claudia Cardinale trying to feed several felines spaghetti.

Jane Fonda made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live! alongside two of her Book Club: The Next Chapter co-stars Candace Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, and she played Plead the Fifth with host Andy Cohen.

Jane Fonda is namedropping French director René Clément as the one who tried to sleep with her but who she ultimately turned down.

Given that Jane Fonda’s acting career has spanned has spanned a jaw-dropping seven decades, it’s it shouldn’t be surprising that she’s experienced the seedy underbelly of Hollywood.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jane Fonda revealed on a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live” that French director René Clément asked to sleep with her during the making of their 1964 thriller “Joy House.” Fonda starred in the film opposite Alain Delon and Lola Albright. “Watch What Happens Live” host Andy Cohen asked 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 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.”

“Plead the Fifth,” host Andy Cohen asked the “Monster-in-Law” star who “tried to pick you up once that you turned down.”She recalled exactly who that was: “The French director René Clément.”Clément — who died in 1996 — helmed the 1964 thriller “Joy House,” starring Fonda.“Was it a sloppy pass?” Cohen, 54, wondered.“Well, he wanted to go to bed with me because he said that the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like,” the Golden Globe winner explained. “But he said it in French and I pretended like I didn’t understand.” The Bravo celebrity rated her experience on the show as “amazing, perfect.”“I have stories for you kid, we don’t have time,” Fonda winked, concluding her coy confession.Elsewhere on the late-night talk show, Fonda admitted that she once went skinny dipping with the late Michael Jackson, noting how “skinny” the “Thriller” singer appeared.

thriller night with Michael Jackson sometime in the early 1980s.“I saw Michael Jackson naked,” the “Grace and Frankie” star shared Monday on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.”Fonda played “Plead the Fifth” on the Bravo show while promoting her new film, “Book Club: The Next Chapter.” During the segment, Cohen, 54, asks his guest three questions — and they can only plead the fifth once.After Cohen asked Fonda to name “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down,” she revealed she went skinny-dipping with Jackson, who died in 2009 at the age of 50.“Okay, I’m listening,” Cohen said as his jaw fell open. “Where’d you see him naked?”The two-time Academy Award winner said Jackson came to visit her on “a beautiful moonlit night” at her little cottage on the lake while she shot 1981’s “On Golden Pond.”“And you said, ‘Let’s skinny dip,'” Cohen guessed.“No, he did!” Fonda replied.“I think because he knew he was going to die young and I would talk about him, being naked,” she explained as the studio audience laughed.

Jane Fonda just dropped a Hollywood bombshell. The 85-year-old actress didn’t hold back while a guest on Monday's episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen were on the Bravo show promoting Book Club: The Next Chapter, and Fonda was selected to play Plead the Fifth, a game where contestants are asked three questions and you can only pass on one. The two-time Academy Award winner was asked by Cohen, «Name one man in Hollywood who tried to pick you up once that you turned down.»Without much hesitation, Fonda responded, «The French director René Clément.»Clément directed Fonda in the 1964 French mystery–thriller, Joy House.

Book Club: The Next Chapter stars Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, who chatted with Metro Weekly about the new sequel to their 2018 hit comedy, written and directed by Bill Holderman.The screen legends were missing their girl Diane Keaton, who rounds out the quartet portraying four longtime best friends, who, this time out, jet off to Italy for a bachelorette adventure. Yet they still basked in the glow of their collective thrilling adventure shooting the film throughout Rome, Venice, and Tuscany.The gorgeous Italian scenery, and local color — like homegrown legend Giancarlo Giannini, featured in a supporting role — proved enchanting offscreen as well as in the film.“It was never stressful because you were always in a gondola, sort of coasting along,” recalls Bergen.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.Last weekend, it enjoyed a $118 million-dollar opening, the second-highest debut of the year, according to Variety.“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” remained in second place with sales of $2.93 million.

J. Kim Murphy The book club can’t topple comic books, as Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” will easily hold off the opening of “Book Club: The Next Chapter” to retain the top spot at the box office. “The Next Chapter” earned $2.14 million on its opening day, projecting a debut of $7 million from 3,508 locations for the three-day frame. That’s on the lower end of estimates heading into the weekend. While there’s hope that the Focus Features release will be able to earn a boost in ticket sales on the Mother’s Day holiday, the sequel won’t be able to match its predecessor. Released by Paramount in 2018, the first “Book Club” debuted to $13.5 million before legging out to a $68 million gross in North America — a solid result for an older-skewing comedy, especially before the COVID pandemic impacted the theatrical landscape.

Book Club: The Next Chapter is now out in theaters!

Ed Sheeran could one day make the jump to country music, according to a new interview and a new collaboration with Luke Combs.While in Texas for the Academy of Country Music awards, Sheeran revealed in a new interview with Billboard that he would “love to transition into country,” adding that he speaks to his wife about the idea “all the time”.“I love the culture of it, I just love the songwriting. It’s just like brilliant songs,” Sheeran explained.Having lived in Nashville, Texas across two periods in 2013 and 2018, Sheeran told Billboard that he is inspired by local songwriters: “It’s like a community.

Michaela Zee editor From riding boats in Venice to landing in Tuscany in a helicopter, “Book Club: The Next Chapter” star Jane Fonda had quite the adventure in Italy with Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen.  Her favorite memory there? “When we went to see the Sistine Chapel at night, and there was nobody else there,” Fonda told Variety at the New York premiere on Monday night. “And we had the whole ceiling explained to us by a great guide. That was a real treat.”  Although the sequel was filmed nearly five years after the original, Fonda never lost contact with her “Book Club” co-stars. 

Jane Fonda only started to believe in herself after her third divorce. The 85-year-old actress - who was initially married to Roger Vadim from 1965 until 1973, then to Tom Hayden from 1973 until 1990 - tied the knot with Ted Turner in 1991 but called time on their marriage less than a decade later and has now declared that following her third separation, that was the time she finally started to "believe in herself. " When asked about how she is doing these days, she told 'Entertainment Tonight': "Fine.

Jane Fonda is looking back at her life, and detailing when she first felt truly in control of her own destiny.The beloved 85-year-old actress walked the carpet at the New York City premiere of her new film,, on Monday, and opened up to ET's Rachel Smith about relating to her character, and how the themes of the film reflect in her own life.The film is a follow-up to 2018's, and stars four women who go on a late-in-life girls' trip to Italy that goes somewhat awry. The story is one of reclaiming your own destiny and finding the self-confidence to trust your own decisions and instincts.For Fonda, that moment came for her in real life when when she was «maybe 62 years old,» when she was «finally single.»Fonda has been married three times — first to Roger Vadim, in 1965.

The stars of Book Club: The Next Chapter lit up the red carpet for the NYC premiere on Monday (May 8)!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It’s beyond obvious that women deserve a movie that portrays and celebrates them in their sixties and seventies reveling in the joys of romantic adventure and uninhibited sex. It’s not so obvious that they deserved “Book Club,” the 2018 comedy about four hale, hearty, and prosperous senior friends who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” in their monthly literary white-wine klatsch, only to discover that E.L. James’s S&M princess fantasy jump-starts their hibernating libidos and/or their desire to commit to the men who are courting them. You could use a whole Thesaurus paragraph of withering descriptives to evoke the sort of movie “Book Club” was. It was prefab, it was cookie-cutter, it was paint-by-numbers, it was broad enough to play to the peanut gallery, it was four glorified sitcoms jammed into one overly synthetic package.