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Jane Fonda has spoken out about her longtime friend Robert Redford\u2019s death<\/a>, saying she \u201ccan\u2019t stop crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legendary Hollywood actor and director, best known for his roles in movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President\u2019s Men, died in his sleep at the age of 89, it was announced Tuesday<\/a>. A cause of death has not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone,\u201d Fonda, 87, said <\/a>in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t stop crying,\u201d she added. \u201cHe meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redford, a prominent liberal and environmental activist, first appeared in an uncredited role in Fonda\u2019s 1960 sports comedy Tall Story<\/a>. They then went on to co-star in four movies: The Chase (1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Our Souls at Night (2017). <\/p>\n

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Robert Redford and Jane Fonda worked together on five movies (Getty)<\/p>\n

The two shared a deep and meaningful connection that lasted until his death, with Fonda even admitting to The Guardian <\/a>in 2015 that she \u201cwas always in love with Robert Redford.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI made three films with him and nothing happened because I was married and he was married,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

She later made the same admission in a 2023 interview with Vulture<\/a>, saying, \u201cI made four films with him, and for three, I was in love with him. Which meant I had a really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Redford told The Telegraph<\/a> in 2017 that he had no idea \u201cJane Fonda was in love with me,\u201d he shared the same sentiment about their working relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy,\u201d he said on the Today show that same year. \u201cWe\u2019ve done many films over the years so it just worked out that way, that there was not a lot of discussion, we didn\u2019t have to talk about a lot. Things just kind of fell into place between us, and there wasn\u2019t much more to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to the numerous acting credits he accumulated over the years, including his Oscar-nominated role in 1973\u2019s The Sting, Redford was also an acclaimed director. <\/p>\n

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Jane Fonda and Robert Redford shared a deep and meaningful friendship that lasted over 60 years (Invision)<\/p>\n

He made his directorial debut in 1980 with Ordinary People, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.<\/p>\n

He earned his second directing Oscar nomination in 1994 for his drama-thriller Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes.<\/p>\n

Redford\u2019s death has rocked Hollywood, with numerous celebrities paying tribute. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the lions has passed. Rest in peace my lovely friend,\u201d Meryl Streep said in a brief statement shared with AFP via her publicist. The two co-led the romance drama Out of Africa (1985) before reuniting in Lions For Lambs (2007).<\/p>\n

Director Ron Howard called Redford a \u201ctremendously influential cultural figure for the creative choices made as an actor\/producer\/director,\u201d in an X post. <\/p>\n

CODA star Marlee Matlin described him as a \u201cgenius,\u201d and recognized him for founding the organization behind the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur film, Coda, came to the attention of everyone because of Sundance,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd Sundance happened because of Robert Redford. A genius has passed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture emailGet the latest entertainment news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-142857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}