Throughout her 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant look, Jane Fonda shared that she wasn’t in any respect a fan of “Barbarella” in the course of the filming course of. “I did not prefer it in any respect after I was making it,” she stated bluntly. However with over 5 a long time between her and that have, she seems to be at it a lot in another way all these years later. “Now after I see it, I feel it is enjoyable,” she admitted. Fonda shared related emotions on the function again in 2005 to CBS Information, admitting that after ages of not with the ability to have a look at “Barbarella,” she will be able to now get chuckle out of it and admire its appeal.
At first look, it might seem to be Fonda is completely content material with “Barbarella” and its legacy, regardless of the discomfort that got here with making it. In actuality, she nonetheless holds some annoyed emotions about it. It has come to gentle {that a} new “Barbarella” movie is within the works with Sydney Sweeney set to star, however Fonda has no want to consider it not to mention be concerned. The rationale? The squandered potential of the unique. “I fear about what it is going to be. I had an concept of the right way to do it that [original producer] Dino De Laurentiis, when he was nonetheless alive, would not hearken to. Nevertheless it might have been a very feminist film,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter.
Barbarella is much from a mainstream popular culture icon within the trendy period, however maybe that may change with the Sydney Sweeney-led reboot film. Hopefully, she has a greater time making the movie than Jane Fonda did a long time in the past, and the manufacturing meets its fullest potential.