Meryl Streep is mourning the lack of Hollywood icon and former costar Robert Redford.
“One of many lions has handed. Relaxation in peace my beautiful buddy,” Streep, 76, mentioned in an announcement through ABC Information on Tuesday, September 16, after Redford’s demise at age 89.
Streep and Redford shared the display in 1985’s Out of Africa, a romantic drama directed and produced by Sydney Pollack. The movie, based mostly loosely on the 1937 autobiographical guide of the identical title by Isak Dinesen, noticed essential acclaim, with Streep incomes an Academy Award nomination for Finest Actress, whereas costar Klaus Maria Brandauer earned a nod for Finest Supporting Actor. Pollack ended up taking residence the Oscars for Finest Director and Finest Image for the movie.
Whereas working collectively on Out of Africa, Streep discovered a significant lesson from Redford about household and parenthood.
“Motherhood, marriage, it’s a balancing act. Particularly when you will have a job that you just think about rewarding,” she as soon as mentioned, per SlashFilm. “It’s a problem however the perfect type of problem … Robert Redford taught me that once they have been infants. ‘They aren’t your props.’ I actually admired the way in which he protected his household. It’s one thing I consciously emulated.’”
Streep shares children Henry, Mamie, Grace and Louisa with ex Don Gummer, whereas Redford is survived by daughters Shauna and Amy. (Redford’s son Scott died three months after beginning in 1959 because of Sudden Toddler Demise Syndrome and son David died of most cancers in 2020.)
Barbra Streisand, the star of one in every of Pollack’s different movies with Redford, 1973’s The Approach We Had been, additionally spoke out after listening to information of Redford’s demise on Tuesday.
“Every single day on the set of The Approach We Had been was thrilling, intense and pure pleasure,” Streisand, 83, captioned a put up through Instagram. “We have 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, similar to the characters within the film.”
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic
The actress continued, “Bob was charismatic, clever, intense, all the time 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 every of a sort and I’m so grateful to have had the chance to work with him. #RobertRedford.”
Scarlett Johansson was one other of Redford’s former costars who shared a touching tribute for the late actor. The pair starred collectively within the 1998 drama The Horse Whisperer when she was simply 13 years previous.
“Every single day earlier than every scene, he would take the time to take a seat with me and stroll me by the entire beats that led my character up till that individual level within the story,” Johansson, 40, mentioned in an announcement to Individuals on Tuesday. “Irrespective of the truth of the day’s rush, I all the time felt he had on a regular basis on the planet for our work. Bob created an atmosphere on set that was calm and treasured; a spot the place actors may make discoveries. He was affected person and heat and type.”
Robert Redford left behind a long-lasting legacy in Hollywood after his demise in September 2025. The actor and director shot to stardom in 1967, when he appeared alongside Jane Fonda within the Gene Saks-directed romantic comedy movie, Barefoot within the Park. From there, he took on now-famous roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, […]
She thanked the actor for his religion in her skills and performing as a mentor once they shared the display collectively.
“Bob, thanks on your perception in me and on your grace and steerage,” Johansson added. “You impressed so many artists, me included, to go deeper, to remain current, to push inventive boundaries, and to discover additional, and for that, we’re without end grateful.”
