Jane Fonda Says French Director Asked to Sleep With Her to ‘See What My Orgasms Were Like’ for a Role
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jane Fonda revealed on a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live” that French director René Clément asked to sleep with her during the making of their 1964 thriller “Joy House.” Fonda starred in the film opposite Alain Delon and Lola Albright. “Watch What Happens Live” host Andy Cohen asked Fonda to name “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down.” The Oscar-winning actor replied: “The French director René Clément.” Fonda elaborated, “Well, he wanted to go to bed 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 I didn’t understand.” “I have stories for you, kid, [but] we don’t have time,” Fonda added.
Clément was 51 years old at the time of production, while Fonda was 27. Clément was one of France’s most prolific filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s, winning five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival during his career.
He died in 1996 at 82 years old. The MGM-backed “Joy House” featured Fonda as a woman who falls for a card shark on the run from American gangsters.
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