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Glenn Close revisits palpable on-screen chemistry with Robert Redford:
‘What’s most powerful is sometimes the simplest’
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN
Updated:
5:33 PM EDT, Tue September 16, 2025
Source: CNN
Just a few movies into her now-storied career, Glenn Close found
herself starring opposite one of the most handsome and popular male
movie stars of the time.
In “The Natural,” played an aging baseball player who becomes a
phenom. Close played his former girlfriend with whom he reconnects in a
memorable scene where his character sees her in the stands, backlit in
white, glowing like an angel. He’s mesmerized, and so likely were the
moviegoers who remember the 1984 film.
In sports terms, their chemistry was a homerun.
“I think you work with an actor and you get the sense you can trust
them… you can create together the belief in the audience that you are
deeply in love with each other,” Close said, reflecting on the film,
which earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting
actress, in a with Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez on CNN News Central
on Tuesday.
She added: “I also think that, personally, less is more. I think we
see so much today of people ripping their clothes off and eating each
other, basically, that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. I think
we’ve become inured to that. What’s most powerful is sometimes the
simplest.”
“The Natural” ended up being the start of Close’s professional
relationship and deeply loving friendship with Redford – who died
Tuesday at age 89 – that would span decades.
Close described Redford as “a man who put his money and his life into
what he believed in.” His Sundance Institute being one of them.
“He was a great friend. I learned a lot from him,” Close, who
served on the board of the Institute for several years, added. “He
had the heart and soul of an artist – a true artist.”
Close spoke to CNN from Germany where she was preparing for a new film
when someone mentioned the news. She admitted that she “had to leave
the room for a bit” after hearing about Redford’s death.
“I think I’m still in a bit of shock and denial, frankly,” she
said.
She’s .
Redford’s reach – as a talent, environmentalist and champion of the
arts – has placed him in a status and favor in Hollywood that is
achieved by few and, when lost, recognized by many. That is certainly
the case here, with Redford’s peers recognizing him for the qualities
named above and so many more.
Close perhaps put it best with a fittingly simple thought: “I think
we owe him a huge debt.”
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