Jane Fonda stays one among Hollywood’s most revered actors at present, each for her work on display in addition to her work as an activist and advocate. When she labored with fellow Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, nonetheless, issues had been lower than clean between the 2.
Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda labored collectively in ‘On Golden Pond’
On the flip of the Eighties, Fonda and Hepburn labored collectively within the movie On Golden Pond. The 1981 film starred Hepburn, Fonda, and Fonda’s father Henry in what could be his final movie earlier than his loss of life the next 12 months.
The film follows married couple Ethel and Norman (performed by Hepburn and the elder Fonda) at their cottage in northern New England; Jane Fonda performed Norman’s daughter Chelsea.
The film went on to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards and have become the second-highest-grossing film of 1981. Henry Fonda and Hepburn gained the Oscars for Greatest Actor and Actress, respectively, and the film additionally took dwelling the award for Greatest Tailored Screenplay.
Katharine Hepburn didn’t assume Jane Fonda had a soul
Fonda was already an Oscar-winning actor when she met Hepburn, having gained a decade earlier for her function in Klute. However that didn’t cease Hepburn from wanting down on and even feeling threatened by the youthful actor. Hepburn believed that Fonda would by no means attain her stage of stardom as a result of she didn’t work in Hollywood throughout its Golden Age as she had.
Fonda didn’t mince phrases about Hepburn in a March 2021 interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “She was really competitive,” Fonda mentioned truthfully. “She really thought that I was out to win more Academy Awards than she was, and when she won for On Golden Pond I called to congratulate her, and she said, ‘You’ll never catch me now.’”
Hepburn’s regard for Fonda went past pleasant competitors. “She did not like me,” Fonda mentioned bluntly. “She once told [writer] Dominick Dunne that I didn’t have a soul.”
Katharine Hepburn resented Jane Fonda for not being ‘glamorous enough’
Hepburn was already a revered Hollywood icon by the point she labored on On Golden Pond, so it’s curious why she would really feel threatened by the youthful Fonda. In accordance with Fonda, it was as a result of she didn’t assume Fonda carried herself as a star ought to — particularly after years of outspoken activism within the anti-Vietnam Warfare motion.
Fonda described her expertise with the late actor in a 2016 interview with Sandra Bernhard on her Sandyland radio present. “I remember Katharine Hepburn saying to me, ‘You never could’ve made it back then,’” Fonda recalled.
“She was a prickly one,” Fonda added of the late actor. “I just wasn’t glamorous enough. She hated the fact that I didn’t put enough attention to how I presented myself.”