Faye Dunaway has paid tribute to Robert Redford following his demise earlier this week.
Faye Dunaway’s tribute to Robert Redford
The 84-year-old actress referred to as her former co-star a “heartfelt American authentic” in a touching tribute to the late actor.
She informed the Day by day Mail: “Robert Redford embodied the phrase, ‘Le vrai magnificence American’ – The true American magnificence (mis-attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville), in each approach: bodily, emotionally, artistically.
“He was a heartfelt American authentic. I’m proud and lucky to have referred to as him a colleague and a pal.”
The pair co-starred in Sydney Pollack’s 1975 spy thriller Three Days of Condor, during which Redford performed a CIA agent who kidnaps Dunaway’s character.
In the meantime, Paul Newman’s household beforehand paid tribute to Redford, 89, following his demise at his dwelling in Utah.
The Hollywood legends starred alongside one another within the movies Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child and The Sting, with Newman’s daughter Nell describing their relationship as “a film friendship that blossomed right into a extra severe friendship”.
She informed Individuals: “They’d two nice motion pictures collectively, and that was a very robust bond. I feel that is what purchased them collectively.”
Nell additionally mirrored on how Redford was a “good affect” on her father, who died on the age of 83 in 2008, of their shared curiosity on environmental issues.
She stated: “I feel he was additionally an actual catalyst in Dad’s curiosity in environmental points as a result of Bob was already forward of the sport. I feel he was a superb affect on my father.
“Bob was a quiet philanthropist. He supported loads of stuff, however he wasn’t flashy. Dad did not like noisy philanthropists.
“I do know that when it got here to environmental points – Bob was forward of the sport. He was an actual sounding board for Dad. That is very nice.”
Nell additionally mirrored on how Redford was all the time inviting her father and the household to come back and go to his dwelling in Sundance, Utah.
She stated: “Each single time I talked to him on the telephone, ‘Come out and go snowboarding. Come out and go to the pageant.’
“He was only a common man who had a really robust curiosity within the atmosphere – he was only a good one.”
