Robert Redford’s roles only played for the money

However, Redford considered: “Thank God, at the end I – the theater of simple storytelling and the body in space. It disappeared so quickly ”.

As soon as he started in Hollywood, Redford noticed that the projects that most people wanted to see were these little stories of people who spoke in rooms. Of course, he was still able to make films that naturally fulfilled him, but he admitted that after the 1970s the thrust and pulling between art and trade more difficult to navigate.

“The last time the 1970s were in Hollywood,” said Redford. “When Reagan came in, they saw how large expensive cartoons were made: PopeyePresent Dick tracyand so forth. I could see how this industry went into an anesthetic place. “

Over the years, Redford followed a “one for her, one for me”, who may have been even more obvious than that of other actors who used a similar tactic. The Just Referred to it as a “professional bipolar disorder” and wondered how the same man who practically invented the American independent film scene Indecent proposal“As naked as someone knows how to do it”.

While this was a particularly hard rating of Redford’s popular films that many people love, the feeling was clear. Redford’s agent, Michael Ovitz, even admitted to setting the hard sale on Redford to encourage him Indecent proposalA film about which he didn’t exactly jump for joy.

“sneakers And Indecent proposal Earn money for Redford and for her studios, ”said Ovitz with remarkable honesty. “The reality is that there is a market place out there and we had to protect its position in it. We cannot forget that the man is a film star. He had to play some film star roles. “

Although he might not wanted to make certain films, Redford realized that he had to play the game when he wanted to keep his independence for the things that were really important to him. In the years after this interview, this bargain continued to name rewards for him. Able to be able to guide and star The horse whisperhe made Up close and personally And The last castle. Similarly, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe Captain America: The winter soldier so that he could do Everything is lost And The company you keep.

All in all, it simply proves that even someone with legendary status like Redford is the mood of the market. Therefore, he had to make peace early with the balance of his career, and that has probably become more and more difficult over the years and Hollywood changed shortly before his eyes.

Like that Just Known: “It is not his fault that the idea of ​​the studios in the 1970s was an idea of ​​a human man Butch Cassidy and The Sundance KidAnd nowadays it is Indecent proposal“. We shudder thinking about what this journalist must have thought when Redford’s bargains in the 2010s and the changing taste of the public forced him to play in the very “expensive cartoons” against which he had previously opposed.

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