JANE FONDA TAKES A NASTY SWIPE AT BARBRA STREISAND OVER HER ROBERT REDFORD TRIBUTE AS NEW HOLLYWOOD FEUD IS BORN. (PHOTO).

 Jane Fonda takes a nasty swipe at Barbra Streisand over her Robert Redford tribute as new Hollywood feud is born

Jane Fonda didn’t hold back at Sunday’s Oscars when the tribute to Robert Redford came up. The 88-year-old actress expressed frustration that Barbra Streisand, 83, presented the in memoriam segment honoring Redford, who passed away last September at 89.

Fonda, who shared the screen with Redford in four films, Tall Story, The Chase, Barefoot In The Park, and The Electric Horseman, told Entertainment Tonight she felt her connection with the late actor was stronger than Streisand’s, who co-starred with him only in The Way We Were in 1973.

“I want to know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford. She only made one movie with him, I made four!” Fonda said. She added that she still has plenty to share about Redford, recalling, “I was always in love with him. 

He was the most gorgeous human being and had such great values. He did a lot for movies, he lifted up independent films.”

Streisand honored Redford with a speech and a performance during the Oscars’ In Memoriam segment. She praised him as thoughtful, bold, and “a little intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail,” singing The Way We Were from their shared film.

Reflecting on their time together, Streisand remembered the challenges and joys of filming their classic. “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. But he turned it down at first because he said the character had no backbone,” she recalled. 

“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.”

When Redford’s passing was announced last year, Streisand shared a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, highlighting the joy they found on set despite their differences. 

“Every day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense, and pure joy,” she wrote. 

“We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.”