Jane Fonda has released a statement on her longtime friend and collaborator Robert Redford , who passed away at the age of 89.

If you did not see the news, the film icon and Oscar winner died in his sleep in Utah .

Jane and Robert have known each other for decades. Their first collaboration came from 1960′s Tall Story . They then worked together again a few years later in 1966 on the film Barefoot in the Park . Their most recent collaboration came in 2017, when they starred in Our Souls at Night .

In a statement to Just Jared , Jane said, “It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone. I can’t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.”

Robert once said of working

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