Jane Fonda Had a Decades-Long Crush on Former Costar Robert Redford: Their Chemistry Was ‘Amazing’

Jane Fonda was married and divorced three times, but the 87-year-old always pined for the handsome Sundance Kid, Robert Redford.

According to sources, Fonda went gaga for costar Redford each time they starred in a flick. The sexy pair hooked up onscreen in the 1966 thriller The Chase, the 1967 romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park, the 1979 romance The Electric Horseman and the 2017 Netflix love story Our Souls at Night.

Fonda and Redford were married to other people during the first three flicks and when they reunited in 2017 for the Netflix film, the actress was single — but Redford had married second wife Sibylle Szaggars in 2009.

“Jane was always considered a sexy woman,” a source once told Globe. “When she starred in the 1968 film Barbarella and stripped-down nude in the first scene, she raised the temperatures of men everywhere!”

But while she was wed three times, “she always said she had a huge crush on Redford,” noted the source. “And they shared an amazing on-screen chemistry. Each time she looked into his eyes, she’d get lost and forget her lines.”

Fonda would have been willing to leap into a sizzling relationship with Redford, said sources, but she said she always felt he didn’t like her.

Redford passed away on September 16 at his home in Utah. He was 89.