Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand costarred in the 1973 megahit film The Way We Were. The pair play a couple in the movie, and a recent report indicates that Barbra would have been happy if that dynamic had played out in real life, too.
The two shot a particularly notable sex scene in the film, and author Robert Hofler has written in his book The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen that the scene took two days to film, mostly because Barbra needed take … after take … after take.
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The author told Fox News that Barbra seemed keen on making sure they filmed "take after take with Redford atop her." He added that the team making the movie was already stressed because it was both over budget and behind schedule, and that "there’s no reason a scene like that should take two days."
The scene shows Robert Redford's character, Hubbell, in bed with Barbra's Katie. He "moves on top, kisses her on the neck and falls asleep" and that's it, but Barbra reportedly had a "mad" crush on the actor and kept shooting the scene, even though he was a married father of four at the time.
The author added, "He was never one of those people you heard about, even in the grapevine, having affairs. He kept things extremely professional. And he didn’t even want to meet with Barbra in the first place. But when it came to that love scene, Barbra asked for take after take, Robert finally gave a look to [director] Sydney Pollack — one that said, ‘I’ve had enough.’"
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