{"id":193566,"date":"2025-09-17T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/leonardo-dicaprio-pays-tribute-to-absolute-legend-robert-redford\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:01:17","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-pays-tribute-to-absolute-legend-robert-redford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/leonardo-dicaprio-pays-tribute-to-absolute-legend-robert-redford\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio pays tribute to &#8216;absolute legend&#8217; Robert Redford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n    <span itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">by <span itemprop=\"name\" style=\"color: #60178e;\">Feeds-Bang<\/span> | <\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-17\" datetime=\"1758103277\" pubdate=\"\">17 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/leonardo-dicaprio\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,leonardo-dicaprio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> says that the movie industry has &#8220;lost an absolute legend&#8221; following the death of Robert Redford.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Leonardo DiCaprio has paid a warm tribute to Robert Redford<\/p>\n<p>The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star passed away in his sleep at his home in Utah at the age of 89 on Tuesday (16.09.25) and DiCaprio paid a warm tribute to the Hollywood titan at the premiere of his new picture One Battle After Another.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the movie&#8217;s London premiere last night, the 50-year-old star said: &#8220;Very sad news, very sad day. We lost an absolute legend in our industry. I admire him for not only his work as an actor, but as a director with Quiz Show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a film tonight that we&#8217;re premiering, that is a political thriller in a lot of ways, and he was the one that created the foundation of all that, with All The President&#8217;s Men, Three Days of the Condor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wolf of Wall Street actor also highlighted Redford&#8217;s environmental activism as a key part of his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;But more so than anything, I&#8217;ve said it over and over again, he was an avid environmental advocate, was a member of the NRDC (Natural Resources Defence Council) like me, and he was a hero to a lot of people in our industry, including myself, so it&#8217;s a huge loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDiCaprio was one of many Hollywood greats paying tribute to Redford after his death, with Jane Fonda &#8211; who starred alongside him in the movies Barefoot in the Park and The Electric Horseman &#8211; saying that she had been unable to &#8220;stop crying&#8221; after hearing the sad news.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 87-year-old star said: &#8220;It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I can\u2019t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Redford was described as &#8220;one of the finest actors ever&#8221; by Barbra Streisand, his co-star in the 1973 film The Way We Were.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe wrote on Instagram: &#8220;Every day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense and pure joy.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting \u2014 and one of the finest actors ever.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;He was one of a kind and I&#8217;m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/leonardo-dicaprio-pays-tribute-absolute-legend-robert-redford-1429846.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Feeds-Bang | 17 September 2025 Leonardo DiCaprio says that the movie industry has &#8220;lost an absolute legend&#8221; following the death of Robert Redford. Leonardo DiCaprio has paid a warm tribute to Robert Redford The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star passed away in his sleep at his home in Utah at the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[124,131,1946,6687],"class_list":{"0":"post-193566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-barbra-streisand","9":"tag-jane-fonda","10":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","11":"tag-robert-redford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}