"It's not that Redford, who died today at 89, lacked ability as an actor. But he had other tools as his disposal, too, with his astonishing golden-boy beauty: the tousled reddish hair, the blue eyes with the slight crinkle, the ability to sport a mustache without looking like a goofball. (Granted, he didn't exercise that one so often in his later years.)"
"Characters meet by chance, years after the end of their tumultuous affair, and Redford plays it pretty straightforward, as he tended to do, everything in its right place, with just the right hint of concealed anguish. Streisand is a little more demonstrative - reaching out to touch her scene partner, bringing herself closer to tears - while Redford mostly looks her over and makes visible his careful choice of words, all with a restraint that somehow only heightens the emotion of their limited interaction."
Robert Redford died at 89. Redford combined acting ability with distinctive physical features—tousled reddish hair, crinkled blue eyes, and an easy debonair look—that became tools of performance. He contrasted with a 1970s cohort of grittier stars such as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, yet held his own opposite stars like Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman. Redford deployed restraint and careful physical choices to heighten emotion, as in the final scene of The Way We Were, where his subdued manner amplified the scene's anguish and counterpointed Barbra Streisand's demonstrative performance.
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