Euphoria Breakout star Sydney Sweeney will star in a new Barbarella reboot movie as the title character originally played by Jane Fonda.
While little has been revealed about the remake and whether the storyline and style will differ from the original, Fonda sounded skeptical and expressed concern about how it might turn out when asked what she thought of it.
‘I’m not trying. Because I’m worried about what it’s going to be like,” the longtime leading lady, 85, told The Hollywood Reporter before hinting that she had some ideas of her own on how to make Barbarella, but the producer fell on deaf ears.
Barbarella remake: Jane Fonda, 85, sounded skeptical and expressed “concern” about what the new Barbarella reboot starring Sydney Sweeney might look like when asked what she thought of it in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter
“I had an idea how to do that [original producer] Dino De Laurentiis didn’t want to listen when he was alive,” Fonda explained during the THR interview.
The actress, who underwent brutal chemotherapy after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year, went on to admit that Barbarella “could have been a truly feminist film.”
Fonda starred in a 1968 adaptation of the French comic series directed by Jean-Claude Forest by director Roger Vadim, to whom Fonda was married at the time, who eventually divorced in 1973.
Something else: Fonda said Barbarella, a 1968 adaptation of the French comic series by Jean-Claude Forest by director Roger Vadim, “could have been a really feminist film.”
Sci-Fi Adventure The Original Barbarella stars Fonda as a space traveler and representative of the United Earth government sent to find scientist Durand Durand, who has developed a weapon that could destroy humanity
Not much is known about this new version, but Vadim’s version of the story follows a 41st-century astronaut who sets out to find and stop evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back to the galaxy . according to a synopsis on IMDb and Deadline.
The film wasn’t a hit with fans at the box office, but has since become a cult classic and cemented Fonda as a bona fide sex symbol at the time.
In addition to Fonda, the original Barbarella also starred John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi and Claude Dauphin.
Fonda has voiced some criticism of her Barbarella film over the years, but she viewed Vadim’s version with more of a sense of humor, she admitted in a 2005 interview with CBS.
Confirmation: Sweeney confirmed the news of her role in the Barbarella reboot on Instagram
News of the remake, starring Sweeney in the title role, was released last October and was confirmed by the actress in an Instagram post, in which she captioned the photo alongside an illustrated poster of the original: “Time to save the universe.” Movie.
A story from Deadline revealed that Sweeney will also serve as an executive producer in addition to starring in the film.
So far, no official release date has been announced for Sweeney’s Barbarella reboot.
As for Fonda’s health, the actress admitted that the chemotherapy treatments “hit me really hard,” but ultimately helped put her cancer into remission.
Breakthrough: Sweeney is best known to most fans for her role as Cassie Howard on the hit HBO drama series Euphoria, in which Zendaya stars as Rue