Jane Fonda will always tell you what she really thinks. The Grace and Frankie star playfully commented on Barbra Streisand’s tribute to Robert Redford at the 98th Academy Awards Sunday night. “I wanna know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford,” she quipped to Entertainment Tonight during an interview at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, “She only made one movie with him. I made four. I have more to say.”
When asked what she most remembered about working with Redford, Fonda laughingly said she “was always in love with him. The most gorgeous human being and such great values. And he did a lot for movies, he really changed movies, lifted up independent movies.”
Fonda starred with Redford in The Chase (1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Electric Horseman (1979) and Our Souls at Night (2017).
Redford died on Sept. 16, 2025, at the age of 89.
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Streisand paid heartfelt tribute to her late The Way We Were co-star Redford and then sang a passage from its Oscar-winning theme song.
“He was a brilliant, subtle actor, and we had a wonderful time playing off each other because we never quite knew what the other one was going to do in a scene,” Streisand said.
The eight-time Grammy-winning singer also praised Redford for having “real backbone on and off the screen.”
“He spoke up to defend freedom of the press, protect the environment and encouraged new voices at his Sundance Institute, some of whom are up for Oscars tonight, which is so great,” she said. “He was thoughtful and bold. I called him an intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail, and won the Academy Award for best director, and I miss him now more than ever.”