Actress and activist Jane Fonda has accused French director René Clément of asking to have s** with her while they were filming Joy House in 1964.

Fonda made the claim during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, when she was asked to identify “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down”.

Fonda replied: “The French director René Clément.”
She went on to explain that Clément asked to sleep with her in order to research the character Fonda played in Joy House.

“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,” Fonda said.

Elsewhere on the show, Fonda spoke about skinny dipping with Michael Jackson.

Clément, who died in 1996 aged 82, is remembered as one of France’s most influential filmmakers, winning five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.

Joy House starred Fonda as Melinda, the niece of a wealthy widow (Lola Albright), who falls for a petty criminal (Alain Delon).

Clément was 51 and Fonda was 27 at the time of production.

Fonda currently stars in Book Club: The Next Chapter, which also features Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton.

In the film, a continuation of the 2018 comedy Book Club, the four friends take their book club to Italy to make up for a girl’s trip they never had.

However, things quickly unravel, turning their relaxing vacation into an unexpected cross-country adventure.

Book Club: The Next Chapter is now showing in cinemas.
Fonda, 85, has previously spoken out about harassment by other men in the film industry.

During a 2017 interview with Brie Larson, Fonda revealed that she had been s**ually harassed by former Fox CEO Roger Ailes.

“He called me into his office, and I went because I thought he wanted to talk to me about, I don’t know, movies or something… He said to me, ‘I think you’re very s**y, and I would like to have s** with you.’”
Fonda also accused former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of s**ual misconduct and rape during an interview with CNN in 2018.

Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual s**.

He is currently facing charges of rape and s**ual assault in New York, and is expected to face further charges in Los Angeles.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Fonda claimed that the #MeToo movement had not gone far enough.

“Men are trained not to be empathetic, not to be emotional… They are trained to be competitive, to see emotions as weak,” she said.

“But empathy and emotionality are what’s needed to end patriarchy and move toward partnership.

Until that happens, I don’t think anything major is going to change.”

Fonda has also been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, and has been arrested several times during climate protests in Washington DC.

In October, she was detained for “unlawful demonstration” while protesting on Capitol Hill alongside other activists.

Fonda has been a prominent activist since the 1960s, when she became involved in anti-war protests and feminist campaigns.

In 1972, she co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan.