Jane Fonda has taken issue with a line in Bette Midler's hit Broadway play, I'll Eat You Last A Chat With Sue Mengers, because it claims that she was offered the lead in cult 1974 movie Chinatown.
“In Bette Midler's play, it says that I turned down Chinatown and I'm mad about it with Roman Polanski but he never really offered me the part,” Fonda has said during an online chat with website GoldDerby.com.
In the play, Midler plays entertainment agent Mengers. In the role, Midler suggests that Fonda turned down a chance to appear opposite Jack Nicholson in what was one of the key movies of the seventies. Fonda insists that director Polanski never officially offered her it before opting to cast Faye Dunaway.
During the chat, Fonda also denied that she passed on the role of Elaine Robinson in The Graduate, a role memorably played by Anne Bancroft.
