Leonardo DiCaprio says that the film business has “misplaced an absolute legend” following the demise of Robert Redford.
Leonardo DiCaprio has paid a heat tribute to Robert Redford
The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child star handed away in his sleep at his dwelling in Utah on the age of 89 on Tuesday (16.09.25) and DiCaprio paid a heat tribute to the Hollywood titan on the premiere of his new image One Battle After One other.
Talking on the film’s London premiere final night time, the 50-year-old star stated: “Very unhappy information, very unhappy day. We misplaced an absolute legend in our business. I like him for not solely his work as an actor, however as a director with Quiz Present.
“Now we have a movie tonight that we’re premiering, that could be a political thriller in lots of methods, and he was the one which created the muse of all that, with All The President’s Males, Three Days of the Condor.”
The Wolf of Wall Avenue actor additionally highlighted Redford’s environmental activism as a key a part of his legacy.
He stated: “However extra so than something, I’ve stated it again and again, he was an avid environmental advocate, was a member of the NRDC (Pure Assets Defence Council) like me, and he was a hero to lots of people in our business, together with myself, so it is an enormous loss.”
DiCaprio was one in all many Hollywood greats paying tribute to Redford after his demise, with Jane Fonda – who starred alongside him within the motion pictures Barefoot within the Park and The Electrical Horseman – saying that she had been unable to “cease crying” after listening to the unhappy information.
The 87-year-old star stated: “It hit me laborious this morning once I learn that Bob was gone.
“I can’t cease crying. He meant quite a bit to me and was a good looking particular person in each manner. He stood for an America we have now to maintain preventing for.”
In the meantime, Redford was described as “one of many best actors ever” by Barbra Streisand, his co-star within the 1973 movie The Method We Had been.
She wrote on Instagram: “On daily basis on the set of The Method We Had been was thrilling, intense and pure pleasure.
“We had been such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I used to be allergic to them! But, we saved looking for out extra about one another, identical to the characters within the film.
“Bob was charismatic, clever, intense, at all times attention-grabbing — and one of many best actors ever.
“The final time I noticed him, when he got here to lunch, we mentioned artwork and determined to ship one another our first drawings.
“He was one in all a form and I am so grateful to have had the chance to work with him.”
