Jane Fonda Hoping to Find a ‘Fearless, Handsome Guy With a Real Brain,’ Not a ‘Scrub Off the Street’

Jane Fonda has played down talk of finding love again.

“I can get much more done when I’m on my own,” she told Vanity Fair in 2023.

However, a source says the Barbarella star is revising that stance at the age of 88.

“She gets asked out by men of all different ages, and always has, but she’s not going to shack up with some bland, ordinary scrub off the street,” says Closer‘s source. “If you are a smart, intense person doing challenging work, that’s what gets her attention.”

Fortunately for Fonda, “she has the kind of social life where she actually gets exposed to Type A personalities like herself, who aren’t starstruck or intimidated by her,” the source notes. “A smart, fearless, handsome guy with a real brain in his head is going to have a shot with Jane, but living up to her high standards is no easy task!”

Fonda has, of course, been married three times before.

She tied the knot with French filmmaker Roger Vadim in 1965 and while “he had tremendous charm,” she revealed in a 2023 interview with People, “we were very different.” The couple, who share daughter Vanessa, 57, went on to call it quits in 1973.

That same year, Fonda wed political activist Tom Hayden, with whom she shares son Troy, 52. From him, “I learned all the things that I consider the most valuable,” she said of their 17-year marriage, which came to an end in 1990.

A year later, the actress exchanged vows with CNN founder Ted Turner — and although she caught him cheating just a month into their marriage, they remained together until 2001.

Turner was Fonda’s “favorite ex-husband,” she joked post-split, per People, and his recent death in May has served as a “reminder” that she has to “make every day count,” says Closer‘s source.