There’s a story going around social media that Redford really wanted to star in The Graduate. Director Mike Nichols said that he told Redford that he was too good looking to play a guy who was supposed to be a loser.
Redford insisted he could do it.
“When have you ever struck one with a woman?” Nichols asked him.
“What do you mean?” was Redford’s reply. And he was serious; he didn’t know what Nichols was talking about.
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I guess I know whose ignore list I’m on! 
Never! Just an inability to read carefully!
Mea Culpa!
Huh. No lesbians, no fully committeds, no I just got through a bad breakup and don’t want to be with ANY man, no just have other priorities at the moment? No knowing that it happens to other men? I call bee ess.
I’m pretty sure JFK Jr had the same issue.
YMMV
Maybe they’re getting him mixed up with Paul Newman, who died in 2008. They did have some very prominent movies together.
Oooh, I bet that’s it!
One movie not mentioned yet: A Walk In The Woods. Redford plays Bill Bryson, who tackles the Appalachian Trail with his disheveled friend (Nick Nolte). The movie (like the book) is a bit disappointing overall, but it’s kind of fun to watch them bumble around in the wilderness.
I guess I found it a little difficult to really connect with Robert Redford. Of course, by the time I was old enough to really appreciate movies, he was already an outsized icon and a legend, and that can certainly get in the way. But, as someone who spent many, many years plying his trade in the newspaper world, I’ll always treasure All the President’s Men.
Yes, a beautiful film and pretty good. But I liked the book better.
Just remember: all actors are smaller IRL. I saw Paul Newman (he shook hands with my brother), and he was a wee man.
Oh, me, too! And this is one where I like the movie better than the book! The score is magical.
Ethan Hawke was on Jimmy Kimmel about a week or so ago and he gave a great speech(?) about Robert Redford and how he was influenced by him (1:34 onward). It was quite good:
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You and I love many of the same things. I love the score!! I get goosebumps just hearing it in my mind. 
Now you’ve given me goosebumps.
When John Hughes died, his core cast (the TBC actors, Matthew Broderick, Mac Culkin) went onstage at the Oscars, to eulogize him. He was influential enough to merit that. Now, wouldn’t it be something if, at the next Oscars, there was a gathering of people who owe their success, even partially, to having made/been in a film that showed at Sundance?