Given Robert Redford and Jane Fonda’s on-screen chemistry in several films together over 60 years, it’s hard to believe that there wasn’t any off-screen romance, but it wasn’t for any lack of feeling, according to Fonda.

“I was always in love with Robert Redford,” Fonda told The Guardian in 2015. “I made three films with him and nothing happened because I was married and he was married.”

Redford and Fonda actually made five films together together, between 1960 and 2017. And though they never privately acted on that “love” Fonda said she felt, the two stars enjoyed one of the sweetest and most enduring friendships in Hollywood, according to People.

Fonda addressed that friendship, as well as her grief in a statement Tuesday, after learning of Redford’s death at age 89.

“It hit me hard

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