Redford was married to first wife Lola (right) at the time he made The Way We Were with Streisand.
He even objected to her background as a singer, saying: 'She's not going to sing, is she? I don't want her to sing in the middle of the movie.' Redford said: 'Her reputation is as a very controlling person. He did not think she was a 'serious actress' because she 'had never been tested', he complained - her previous movies had been musicals and lighter fare. One of the major obstacles he had to overcome was Redford's reluctance to work with Streisand. Pollack began eight months of 'incessant wooing' to get Redford to agree or, as Pollack put it: 'Eight months beating him to death in order to get him to do it'. Worse than that, Redford thought that Hubbell was a 'Ken Doll'.'
Redford, however, initially wasn't even interested in the script and told director Sydney Pollack that his character Hubbell was 'camp.' The film proved to be a critical and commercial hit and won two Oscars including Best Original Song for 'The Way We Were', sung by Streisand, which also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Redford was cast to play the privileged Hubbell Gardiner to Streisand's politically engaged Jew, Katie Morosky.ĭespite their differences, the characters marry and move to California to pursue Hubbell's dream of being a screenwriter until their old tensions resurface. Robert Hofler reveals new details of the 1973 film's tortured pre-production, filming, post production in new book, The Way They Were
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