‘Heartbroken’ Jane Fonda reacts to ex and ‘Klute’ co-star Donald Sutherland’s death

Donald Sutherland following his death on Thursday. The “M*A*S*H” actor died at age 88 in Miami after a “long illness.”Fonda and Sutherland worked together in the 1971 hit “Klute,” and dated around the same time they filmed the crime drama.They played Bree Daniels and John Klute, respectively, seeing Sutherland as a detective and Fonda as a call girl who helps him in a missing persons case. The film earned the actress the first of her two Best Actress Oscars.“I am stunned to hear that Donald Sutherland has died.

He was my fascinating co-star in Klute and we loved working together,” Fonda, 86, captioned a black-and-white photo from set via Instagram.“In this photo we are on the Klute set with director Alan Pakula. Donald was a brilliant actor and a complex man who shared quite a few adventures with me, such as the FTA Show, an anti-Vietnam war tour that performed for 60,000 active duty soldiers, sailors, and marines in Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines, and Japan in 1971,” she continued. “I am heartbroken.”Two years later, they starred on-screen again together in 1973’s “Steelyard Blues.”Sutherland opened up about the “Grace and Frankie” star in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, confirming they were “lovers for a few years.”“We’d already been cast but had not started shooting,” he said at the time.

“And one day, she made it very clear, via a somewhat provocative suggestion, that I should come home with her. And I just said, “OK.”‘Sutherland was previously married to Lois Hardwick from 1959 to 1966, and had actor twins Kiefer and Rachel, 57, with his ex-wife, Shirley Douglas. The exes split in 1970 after four years of marriage.

He and his third wife, Francine Racette, married in 1972 and are parents of Roeg, 50, Rossif, 45, and Angus, 41.Kiefer confirmed his dad’s death via X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.“With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film,” the “Designated Survivor” actor wrote.“Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that,” he concluded.