Jane Fonda is mourning a “tough year” following the losses of her friends Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton.
The 87-year-old star says that the sadness at the passings of the trio – in February, September and October respectively – has been hard for her to bear.
“It’s been a tough year,” she told People at the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power’s EmPower Party.
When asked about Hackman, she said, “You know, there’s him and Redford. He came down here to support GCAPP. And we screened ‘Barefoot in the Park.’”
The “Barbarella” star continued, “And Diane Keaton – I just finished working with her. Boy, I was shocked. Really shocked. You get to be old and everybody is dying around you.”
Fonda and Keaton worked together on 2023’s “Book Club: The Next Chapter.”
After Redford passed in September, Fonda issued an emotional statement describing how she couldn’t “stop crying” after learning of her “Barefoot in the Park” co-star’s death.
“It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone. I can’t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for,” she said.
When her “Book Club” co-star Keaton passed last month, she posted a tribute on Instagram, calling her a “spark of life and light.”
“It’s hard to believeor acceptthat Diane has passed,” she wrote. “She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creativein her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library, her world view. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn’t know it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a fine actress [sic]!”
