Barbra Streisand is reflecting on the time she spent with the late Robert Redford, who died Tuesday.
“Every day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense and pure joy,” Streisand said of working on the 1973 romance. “We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.”
Directed by Sydney Pollack, the movie was the story of two people with differing political beliefs — her activist Katie and his aspiring screenwriter Hubble — falling in love , marrying, and grappling with the consequences.
“Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting — and one of the finest actors ever,” Streisand wrote. “The last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings.”
She concluded, “He was one of a kind and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.”
The beloved movie won two Oscars: for the titular song and for the score, both from the late Marvin Hamlisch. It earned four more nominations, including one for Streisand for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Redford, who was 89, died Tuesday at his home in Utah, his publicist, Cindi Berger, confirmed to Entertainment Weekly. A cause of death was not given.
Streisand’s was one of many tributes made to the movie star, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival and Institute in Park City, Utah.
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Celebrities including Jane Fonda, Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Julianne Moore wrote about their appreciation of him.
Former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who Redford portrayed in another Pollack film, 1976’s All the President’s Men, had kind words for the movie legend.
“Robert Redford was genuine, a noble and principled force for good who fought successfully to find and communicate the truth,” Woodward wrote on social media. “Over 50 years of friendship, he always said what he was going to do and then did it.”
