Their on-screen smooch’s first take was fake.
Jane Fonda had a kissing scene with Richard Roundtree within the comedy “Moving On,” released March 17.
Although the octogenarian co-stars were completely satisfied to lock lips, and eventually did, there have been complications at first.
“The funny thing was that when that makeout scene got here up within the movie, when it was purported to shoot, Jane had a very bad cold,” the film’s author and director Paul Weitz told The Post.
“So we actually faked it. They did every part but kiss.”
Within the comedy, Fonda, 85, and “Shaft” actor Roundtree, 80, play ex-spouses who reunite at a friend’s funeral.
“She was totally down for making out with Richard,” said Weitz, 57.
“We form of recreated that only for the close-up, of the 2 of them kissing … on set later.
“So Richard got here in sooner or later simply to kiss Jane Fonda.”
Weitz, a Big Apple native who grew up in Carnegie House, a luxury constructing on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, said Lily Tomlin, who stars as Fonda’s college friend, asked him to write down the movie for the pair.
“She called me from the set of ‘Grace and Frankie’ sooner or later, and she or he said, ‘I’m with Jane Fonda, just talking, and we expect it’s best to write us a movie,’” he explained.
He said working with the duo, who’re friends in real life, was amusing, especially once they took jabs at one another.
“In some unspecified time in the future where Lily was giving a dramatic pause to something, Jane thought she’d forgotten her lines, so she reminded her,” he explained. “And Lily said, ‘I’m acting here!’”
This project marks Weitz’s thirteenth time within the director’s chair. His directorial debut “American Pie,” which he worked on together with his brother Chris, was not expected to perform well on the box office.
“I didn’t know this on the time, but when the studio was watching the dailies, they’re like, ‘That is going to be a bomb,’” he said.
The teenager comedy went on to gross over $235 million worldwide and spawn three movies and a by-product series of 5 direct-to-video movies.
“It was a shocker,” he said. “It was really weird to go as much as the theater on the primary weekend and see a line across the block.”
Weitz’s three children, ages 19, 16 and 12, not only preview his movies before they’re released, but provide feedback.
“They offer me notes. My 16-year-old, I showed him ‘American Pie’ … that was the one movie where afterwards he said, ‘I’m happy with you, dad.’”
