Hollywood legend Robert Redford died on the age of 89 final week, and since then, a ton of emotional tributes from different actors have poured in. One of many newest comes from Bryce Dallas Howard, who labored with the late Redford on the Disney’s 2016 remake of Pete’s Dragon. Howard shared some actually candy recollections of working with the enduring actor in New Zealand, and I like how her sentiments present a greater sense of the person he was.
Redford died in his sleep on September 16 in his dwelling in Sundance, Utah. Finally, Howard posted a tribute to him on her Instagram, which featured a few of her sweetest recollections of her co-star. Howard defined that she didn’t put up her ideas straight away as a result of it took her “a second to seek out the appropriate phrases of gratitude.” As she wrote:
I’ll at all times bear in mind Bob as robust, and important, and heat. Whereas filming, we spent hours strolling via the New Zealand woods collectively. He shared his love of geology and why he cherished the mountains specifically and the way the panorama reminded him of Santa Monica within the 30s and 40s. He advised tales of driving throughout the U.S. as a baby together with his mom, him driving the entire method on the age of eight and the way he nonetheless cherished to drive.
Earlier within the put up, Bryce Dallas Howard recalled the primary time assembly Robert Redford was on the set of the film the place they performed father and daughter. She stated she “virtually knocked him over” whereas rolling on a scene through which she was purported to run into his arms, which led Redford to burst out laughing and quip, “You got here at me like a cannonball!” As she continued:
We talked about moviemaking and household and his love of horses. In reality, on one among his morning drives whereas filming, he rescued a horse! He may inform the horse was badly abused so he discovered a sanctuary that would look after it. I laughed each time Bob would inform individuals, ‘I stole a horse!’ when in actuality he saved that horse.
Along with Redford being an achieved actor, he additionally directed many films throughout his profession, together with a film referred to as The Horse Whisperer, which even had a 12-year-old Scarlett Johansson in it. (In reality, she just lately spoke about her expertise on it and the nickname she gave Redford). The story reveals how a lot Redford cared about animals, as he didn’t hesitate in rescuing one in between taking pictures Pete’s Dragon. As Howard additionally shared in her tribute:
Bob was curious. Beneficiant. Enthusiastic. He’d ask questions in regards to the expertise that David Lowery and Weta have been utilizing to convey Elliott the dragon to life. He was supportive and all the things I may have hoped for from an onscreen father. To know him is a dream come true. And his work as an leisure entrepreneur, filmmaker, and actor has moved the needle for generations. We’ve misplaced an enormous, however Bob’s legacy will at all times endure. My coronary heart is together with his household and family members ❤️
When their film got here out in 2016, our Pete’s Dragon overview was glowing, calling the Disney film with our personal Eric Eisenberg calling it a “lovely, earnest household movie with fantastic emotion.” Possibly it’s time we revisited it on Disney+?
Robert Redford had over 80 credit throughout his profession beginning within the Sixties. His profession actually began to explode when he starred in Barefoot within the Park and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child within the late ‘60s. By the Seventies, Redford amassed a plethora of movies that finally grew to become beloved like The Candidate, The Method We Had been, The Sting and All The President’s Males. It’s wild that his sole Oscar win was for his directing work on Abnormal Individuals in 1981!
In relation to Bryce Dallas Howard’s tribute, it is actually fantastic and celebrates the person as she knew him. Right here at CinemaBlend, we’re sending our like to Redford’s household, associates and followers following his dying.