It was fun to kiss him my 20s and again in my almost 80s: Jane Fonda on Robert Redford

Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, the 79-year-old American actress said as their latest screen collaboration Our Souls at Night premiered at the Venice film festival on Friday.

“I live for sex scenes with him,” Fonda told journalists in Venice. “He’s a great kisser so it was fun to kiss him in my 20s and to kiss him again in my almost 80s.”

Half a century after playing a young couple in Barefoot in the Park, Fonda and Redford reunite in a Netflix production directed by Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra about getting another chance at love late in life.

Redford, also the movie’s producer, wanted to make the film because so few movies are geared towards older audiences.

He also wanted to make another film with Fonda before dying.

Both 81-year-old Redford and Fonda were honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the festival on Friday.

“Jane and I have a long history in film and I wanted us to have another chance and we are getting older,” he said.

The movie, which screened in the out-of-competition section at the festival, tells the story of Addie Moore and Louis Waters, two retired and widowed neighbours living …read more