Robert Redford tracks down Julie Christie
ROBERT REDFORD may have unearthed the Watergate scandal in the 1976 film All The President’s Men but he recently solved a bigger piece of detective work: tracking down Julie Christie.
Redford, 76, was determined to cast the 71-year-old British actress as a radical terrorist in his new film The Company You Keep. But first he had to find the Billy Liar star.
Until Redford spotted Christie in the 2006 independent film Away From Her, he feared she had “disappeared from the face of the earth”. He recalls: “It took a while to get her because she’s in a remote area of Spain and sometimes London.
“It took two months of conversations across the Atlantic, first of all trying to find her and secondly listening to her telling me why she shouldn’t do it, didn’t want to do it and didn’t think she could do it. Perseverance ruled the day and the effort should speak for itself.”
Score one for the Sundance Kid.