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It was a blistering admission for one of the most popular movie stars on the planet. After all, Redford\u2019s striking looks and magnetism had turned the likes of \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u201d and \u201cThe Way We Were<\/a>\u201d into blockbusters, but they had also led critics to dismiss him as just another pretty face.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was an artist who was trapped in this incredibly handsome body,\u201d says Phil Alden Robinson<\/a>, who directed Redford in 1992\u2019s \u201cSneakers<\/a>.\u201d \u201cIt can be hard to be taken seriously when you\u2019re that good-looking.\u201d<\/p>\n Redford, who died Sept. 16 at the age of 89, didn\u2019t allow himself to be defined by Hollywood. Instead, he subverted his squeaky-clean persona in films like \u201cThe Candidate<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDownhill Racer<\/a>\u201d and \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men<\/a>,\u201d which looked critically at the media,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThis glamour image can be a real handicap,\u201d Robert Redford told The New York Times in 1974. \u201cImage is crap.\u201d It was a blistering admission for one of the most popular movie stars on the planet. After all, Redford\u2019s striking looks and magnetism had turned the likes of \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2029287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Robert-Redford-Went-From-Reluctant-Movie-Star-to-Indie.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}