Robert Redford needed extra protection when filming his love scenes with Barbra Streisand within the drama The Way We Were.
According to a latest book, the 86-year-old director of Bizarre People reportedly forced himself to placed on two pairs of underwear to “protect himself” from the 80-year-old singer.
Robert Hofler’s recently released book The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen chronicles the making of the 1973 romantic film.
Streisand was reportedly “infatuated” with Redford, who had to play sports with “two sports fans” prior to filming, the creator wrote within the book, according to excerpts published in The Guardian. Every day mail.
Hofler wrote that she wore a bikini during their intimate scenes since the “Barefoot within the Park” actress wanted to ensure that the shots were “beautiful”.
During one in every of the sex scenes, Redford also refused to say “It’ll be higher this time”, as he was apprehensive that viewers would think he wasn’t good within the bedroom in the actual world.
“Redford was never bad in bed,” so his character couldn’t be either, Hofler wrote.
The creator also said Redford was reluctant to work with the “Funny Girl” star because he didn’t think she was a “serious actress.”
“Her popularity is a really controlling person. She’ll manage herself. It’ll never work,” Record reportedly said on the time.
He also didn’t want her to sing any tunes within the film, reportedly noting, “She’s not going to sing, is she? I don’t need her singing in the midst of a movie.
Streisand hummed the film’s iconic theme song, “The Way We Were”.
The book also states that the film’s director, Sydney Pollack, who died in 2008, had previously said, “Barbra has never worked with a very strong leading man.”
“He tends to take over the image simply because of the dimensions of his talent and his extraordinary presence. It’s hard for a partner to stay in the identical ring along with her,” said Hofler, the creator of “Three Days of the Condor,” according to the book.
Pollack only believed that Redford could handle the Oscar winner. “In acting, you’ve to sense that there’s a reserve somewhere, that you simply are seeing the tip of the iceberg.”