The 1973 film The Way We Were, based on the book of the same title, featured two of the biggest movie stars of all time, Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film’s debut, critic and author Robert Hofler released a book detailing many behind-the-scenes secrets about the making of the movie: The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen.
The book claims that the film was “a nightmare to make, with a difficult cast, a jumbled plot about mismatched partners, countless delays and rewrites, on-set tensions between everyone involved, difficulties at every step of the production, the skyrocketing demands of Ms. Streisand, a leading man who happily ditched premieres on both coasts and mixed critical reviews.”
One of the craziest revelations from the book was Redford’s alleged attempt to keep things professional between him and his female co-star during intimate scenes.
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