Jane Fonda remembers Donald Sutherland after the actor’s death: “Inconsolable”

“I am stunned to hear of the passing of Donald Sutherland. He was my amazing co-star in Klute and we loved working together,” Fonda said in an Instagram post that included a photo of the two on the set of the film. “Donald was a brilliant actor and a complex man who shared many adventures with me, such as the FTA Show, an anti-Vietnam War tour that featured 60,000 active duty soldiers, sailors and Marines in Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines and Japan in 1971. I am heartbroken.”

Sutherland played the titular detective John Klute in the film, while Fonda played Bree Daniels, a call girl who Klute tries to protect from a killer who is pursuing her. Fonda won her first Oscar for her performance in the film. Klute was one of Sutherland’s most memorable roles. As Fonda wrote in her memoirs about Sutherland My life so far: “I found his slim, lanky build and his drooping, pale blue eyes particularly appealing. He also had something of an old-world gentleman about him.”

Sutherland’s death sparked a wave of condolences from Hollywood contemporaries such as Ron Howard, Edgar Wright and others.

“It is never easy to lose such a great person and actor as Donald Sutherland, but this loss really hurts deeply because Donald was like my brother and a big part of my own career.” Elliot Gould, who starred alongside Sutherland in the 1970 comedy MASH, told Rolling Stone in a statement on Thursday. “Rest in peace, dear, dear, good friend. I love you and will never forget you.”

His son Kiefer Sutherland announced his death online and called his father “one of the most important actors in film history.”