Jane Fonda Asks Why Barbra Streisand Did Oscars Tribute to Robert Redford and Quips: ‘She Only Made One Movie With Him. I Made Four! I Have More to Say’

Jane Fonda is questioning why Barbra Streisand — rather than her — paid tribute to Robert Redford on the Oscars stage Sunday night during the ceremony’s In Memoriam segment.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Fonda was asked about her thoughts on this year’s In Memoriam montage, specifically about the late Diane Keaton. The two actors worked together on 2018’s “Book Club” and its 2023 sequel.

“Oh, I didn’t see that!” Fonda said, referring to the moment when Rachel McAdams paid tribute to her “The Family Stone” co-star Keaton. “Oh God, her passing really hit me hard. We lost a lot of talented people.”

Fonda then quipped, “I want to know, how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford? She only made one movie with him. I made four! I have more to say.”

When asked what she remembered most about working with Redford, Fonda replied with a laugh, “I was always in the love with him.”

Redford died on Sept. 16, 2025, at the age of 89. He and Fonda starred in four films together, including “The Chase” (1960), “Barefoot in the Park” (1967), “The Electric Horseman” (1979) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017).

In her ET red carpet interview, Fonda described Redford as the “most gorgeous human being” who had “such great values.”

“He did a lot for movies. He really changed movies,” she continued. “Lifted up independent movies.”

At the 98th Academy Awards, Streisand appeared on stage to pay tribute to Redford, her co-star in the 1973 romantic drama “The Way We Were.”

“After I read the first script of ‘The Way We Were,’ I could only imagine one man in the role and that was Robert Redford,” Streisand said. “But he turned it down because he said the character had no backbone. He doesn’t stand for anything, and he was right. So many drafts later, Bob finally agreed to do it. 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.”

Also honored during the In Memoriam segment were Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, Catherine O’Hara, Robert Duvall, Diana Ladd and Val Kilmer, among others.