He said: \u201cBut more so than anything, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s a huge loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
DiCaprio was one of many Hollywood greats who paid tribute to Redford after his death. Jane Fonda, who starred alongside him in the movies Barefoot in the Park and The Electric Horseman, said she had been unable to \u201cstop crying\u201d after hearing the news.<\/p>\n
The 87-year-old star said: \u201cIt hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Redford was described as \u201cone of the finest actors ever\u201d by Barbra Streisand, his co-star in the 1973 film The Way We Were.<\/p>\n
She wrote on Instagram: \u201cEvery day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense and pure joy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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
\u201cBob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting \u2013 and one of the finest actors ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was one of a kind and I\u2019m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: \u201cBut more so than anything, I\u2019ve said it over and over again, he was an avid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[12617,634,28318,156,5504,2454,3223,28317,5836,435,111,139,69,20442,26474,3046,312,61,20838,437],"class_list":["post-28892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-absolute","tag-death","tag-dicaprio","tag-entertainment","tag-following","tag-industry","tag-legend","tag-leonardo","tag-lost","tag-movie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pays","tag-redford","tag-robert","tag-says","tag-to","tag-tribute","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}