The Oscar winners reteam for Our Souls at Night, which premieres on Netflix Friday.
by JULIE MILLER
Jane Fonda was checking into the Brown Hotel in Denver with Robert Redford last year when she felt a shock of déjà vu so strong that it knocked her back 50 years.
"I said, 'Bob, does this remind you of anything?' the Oscar-winning actress recently told Vanity Fair by phone, describing a scene that the longtime friends filmed for Netflix's romantic drama Our Souls at Night, out Friday.
"He didn't know what I was talking about. But we checked into the Plaza Hotel as newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park. And here we are checking into a hotel again to make love for the first time. In each movie, it was the first time that [our characters] were going to be together sexually. And I just thought that was a real kick in the ass."
The movie marks the fourth screen collaboration for Fonda and Redford-following 1966's The Chase; 1967's Barefoot in the Park; and 1979's The Electric Horseman. Adapted from Kent Haruf's novel, Our Souls at Night centers on Addie, a lonely widow (Fonda) who summons the courage to approach a widower (Redford) in her small town to suggest that they begin sleeping together-for the company, not the sex. Soon enough, as Addie and Louis (Redford) bond, romantic feelings develop.
