Jane Fonda claimed that the late French director René Clément asked her to sleep with him while filming their 1964 thriller, Felines.
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When he appeared in Watch What Happens Liveshe was asked by host Andy Cohen to name “a man in Hollywood who tried to seduce you and you pushed him away.”
The Oscar-winning actress quickly replied, “French director René Clément.”
She continued, “He wanted to sleep with me because he said the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like. He said it in French and I pretended not to understand.
The 85-year-old actress then quipped: “I have stories for you, my big, (but) we don’t have time.”
At the time of filming, René Clément was 51 and Jane Fonda was 27. The filmmaker, who won best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949, died in 1996 at the age of 82. Jane Fonda is currently on a promotional tour for her new film Book Club: The Next Chapteralso starring Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Don Johnson, which should be released in French theaters on August 30.