Jane Fonda didn’t have a close relationship with her father, similarly how her character in On Golden Pond, Chelsea, was estranged from her father Norman. Jane Fonda remembers the scene when she tells her father that she wants to be his friend and then touches his arm. This movement wasn’t in the script and Henry Fonda didn’t know about it, so you can see him getting emotional. Jane wanted to talk to him about that moment, but her father declined. She wished that he would have said something, that he was moved or didn't expect that.