For a generation, Robert Redford had a lot of picture of American male beauty, sun-dumps, blue-eyed, spontaneously cool. From Buch Cassidi and Sunandan Kid, the way we were, Redford was not just a film star, it was a film star. But for Redford, the “sex symbol” label was never a badge of respect. In fact, he hated it. (ALSO READ: Fans remember that Robert Redford’s warm depiction of death in the dignity region: ‘Hope his death was similar to’)
Robert explains why sex-symbol image is an obstacle
In Interview With the 1974 dated New York Times, Redford reflected on the inconvenience that the idol was made for his look rather than his craft. “I had never thought of myself as a glamorous man, a beautiful man, any of that stuff. Suddenly, this is the image. And it hurts me very much, because it prevents people from doing justice to performance.”
According to Redford, the image, often being taken seriously as an actor. He explained how critics dismissed his performance as typisting: “When I made a candidate, people said,” Yes, definitely, clever, beautiful man, part is right for him. ” When I was the way we were, he said, ‘Yes, Ivy League wasp jock.
But Redford was always insisting against Mold. He had to fight land roles that did not match his golden-boy personality. He mentioned that he had to fight to get Jereased Johnson as it did not fit for the “image”. This role was a isolated mountain man living in the wild, he was serious, introspective, and the polish romantic lead was removed from Hollywood.
He also addressed the backlash obtained for The Great Gatsbi (1974), a film critic was often extracted to be more style than a substance. “Everything I knocked for Gatsbi was due to the image. Critics said that Redford was going to look very good, was strange with the Redford language. But Fitzgrald never said that Gatsbi was not going to look good … He said that the language of Gatsbi was strange, which I did not work for a quality, I did not read the book.”
Redford’s frustration was never about pride; It was about art. For him, acting was a complex, often about giving imagination to flawed characters. But the industry and the public often reduced him for a poster boy for an ideal American masculinity. “So this glamor image can be a real barrier. The image is nonsense.”
Robert Redford dies
Legendary actor, director, and activist Robert Redford died at the age of 89 in his sleep on 16 September, which was in her home in Sunderrance, Utah. In six decades, Redford became one of Hollywood’s most prestigious prominent men, with films such as Buch Cassidi and Sundance Kid, The Sting and all the President’s men, while a permanent heritage was also left behind the camera. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, made independent cinema champions, and was awarded several awards, including Oscars to direct the common people.