{"id":3760,"date":"2024-09-12T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:25:51","slug":"as-iconic-outlaws-paul-newman-envied-robert-redford-but-in-real-life-they-shared-brotherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"As iconic outlaws, Paul Newman envied Robert Redford but in real life, they shared brotherly love"},"content":{"rendered":"

While real-life outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were closely bonded, actor Paul Newman revealed that at the time filming, he had some resentments over the young Robert Redford.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A real testament to their acting skills, Newman, playing Robert LeRoy Parker or \u201cButch Cassidy,\u201d and Redford as Harry Longabaugh \u201cSundance Kid,\u201d were persuasive in their portrayals of the Wild West buddies, notorious criminals who were on the run from the law after a string of bank and train robberies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 1969 movie about the real-life outlaws won four Oscars and holds up as one of the greatest Westerns ever made. Four years later, the stars\u2013both handsome heartthrobs\u2013partnered up again for another caper film, The Sting (1973).<\/p>\n

Newman and Redford are both legends and together, they made magic happen. But have you ever wondered how the Hollywood stars got along off the set?<\/p>\n

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Robert Redford (left) as Sundance Kid and Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (Photo by \ufffd\ufffd John Springer Collection\/CORBIS\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Newman, who played Butch when he was 44, confessed that he wanted the role that was played by the younger Redford, who at the time was 33.<\/p>\n

In an interview with BBC\u2019s Talking Pictures, Newman said, \u201cWe have a lot of fun together, we bounce off each other real well.\u201d He continued, \u201cI would have preferred to have played Sundance. I feel a little more comfortable with that cooled-out kind of quality. I suppose it\u2019s the easier part!\u201d<\/p>\n

Redford was a rising star, whose performance alongside Natalie Wood in the 1965 film Inside Daisy Clover, earned him a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year.<\/p>\n

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Newman had already reached superstar status after appearances in films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Elizabeth Taylor (1958) and Cool Hand Luke (1967).<\/p>\n

It was after Steve McQueen turned down a part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2013he later turned down Dirty Harry (1971), The French Connection (1971) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest (1975)\u2013when Redford was cast, playing next to Newman, who was collecting awards in both acting and directing.<\/p>\n

The BBC reports that according to Newman\u2019s biography, \u201cThe Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir,\u201d the two stars weren\u2019t really friends at the time.<\/p>\n

Newman said, \u201cYou can\u2019t depend on Redford. You\u2019re never sure he\u2019s going to be there. That\u2019s simply discourteous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s youngest daughter, Claire Newman Soderlund\u2013whom he fathered with his second wife Joanne Woodward\u2013said she believes that their tensions were a result of contrasting approaches to work.<\/p>\n

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Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward. (Photo by ALBAN\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cMy father was very much a stickler for timeliness and Bob, that was never really his strength. It was hard work for dad. He worked very hard at it because he wanted to be good and he wanted to be successful and Bob was more of a free spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Newman died of lung cancer in 2008, Redford, now 86, spoke with ABC News and said, \u201cIt was just that connection of playing those characters and the fun of it that really began the relationship,\u201d he said, reflecting on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. \u201cAnd then once the film started, once we went forward, we then discovered other similarities that just multiplied over time, a common ground that we both had between us, interests and so forth, and differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

After playing the iconic outlaws and then cons in The Sting, Newman and Redford explored opportunities to work together on a third film, but it never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

It almost happened in A Walk in the Woods, the 2015 film adaptation of Bill Bryson\u2019s 1998 book of the same name. Another buddy movie, the story follows two out-of-shape older men and their goal of hiking the rugged Appalachian Trail.<\/p>\n

Redford, who starred and produced the film, selected this script in 2005, with his real-life buddy Newman in mind.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Yahoo in 2015, Redford said, \u201cIt started with Paul, because Paul and I had been looking for a third film to do together. A lot of time had gone by, and I just couldn\u2019t find it. When I read this book\u2026 I thought of Paul right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redford, 79 at the time of the interview said he sent the book to Newman, who wasn\u2019t confident he could meet the physical demands of the role, which was later given to Nick Nolte.<\/p>\n

\"\"American actors Paul Newman (1925 \u2013 2008), as Butch Cassidy, and Katharine Ross as Etta Place, in a promotional still for \u2018Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid\u2019, directed by George Roy Hill, 1969. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The connection between Newman and Redford, both highly acclaimed actors, grew considerably since they first filmed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.<\/p>\n

Becoming like brothers, the actors lived in Connecticut, only one mile apart from each other and their families are also close.<\/p>\n

Speaking after his buddy died, Redford said, \u201cWe both got to know each other\u2019s flaws pretty well. Of course, I outweighed him on that front. But knowing each other\u2019s flaws, we just played them to the hilt and we\u2019d try to trick each other. We\u2019d try to surprise each other, and it was so damn much fun that it became like\u2013it became like a scenario unto itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cPaul really likes to have fun and he loves to laugh and he really especially loves to laugh at his own jokes, and some of them are just really awful. So the fact that he enjoyed them so much, you forget about the joke and you\u2019d start to laugh with him because you\u2019re so caught up in his enjoyment of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Actors Paul Newman (L) and Robert Redford attend the Sundance Institute 25th Anniversary celebration at Metropolitan Pavilion November 06, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Paul Newman and Robert Redford had so much chemistry playing the timeless duo! Tell us what you think about their on-screen relationship and their real-life buddy love!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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