Robert Redford remembers Paul Newman
In an interview with ABC News, Robert Redford said about his late friend and co-star Paul Newman:
“This was a man who lived a life that really meant something and will for some time to come.”
The depth of Redford’s personal friendship with Paul Newman, which took root on the set of the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Redford characterized as follows:
“It was just that connection of playing those characters and the fun of it that really began the relationship,” Redford said. “And 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.”
“[We] both had a very strong feeling about putting something back if you were fortunate enough or successful enough that you should put something back if you could. And he certainly did that in spades.”
We both got to know each others flaws pretty well. Of course, I outweighed him on that front. But knowing each others flaws, we just played them to the hilt and we’d try to trick each other. We’d try to surprise each other, and it was so damn much fun that it became like — it became like a scenario unto itself.
“Paul 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’d start to laugh with him because you’re so caught up in his enjoyment of them.”
Newman was nominated 10 times for an Oscar, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1986 “in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft.” He also took home an Academy Award win for his performance in “The Color of Money.”
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