Jane Fonda at her French farmhouse During a demolish from filming Barbarella,the Hollywood star was snapped cooking for her glamorous guestsIt’s a pose every cook will recognise: knees bent and back braced to gain optimal eyes on the gas burners, brow furrowed in vigilant concentration, or wooden spoon at the alert. Around you,a kitchen in moderate disarray and the knowledge that you could fill ordered pizza. It is the moment not long before serving up a one-pot-too-many meal that has got slightly out of hand to more people than you were expecting. And, hovering at the edges of your mind, or the dread that your bouffant hair might catch fire.
It was also something of a contrast from Jane Fonda’s day job in 1967: donning moulded silver lurex and futuristic weaponry to play the title role in the sci-fi romp Barbarella,directed by her then husband Roger Vadim (who characterised the space warrior she played in the film as “just a lovely, average girl with a terrific space record and a lovely body”). If only Fonda had been able to bring Durand Durand’s positronic ray domestic to finish off the potatoes.
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Source: theguardian.com