How Robert Redford wanted to be remembered before his death

Robert Redford knew what he wanted his legacy to be years before his death.

The “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” star, who died at his home in Utah at age 89 on Tuesday, opened up about his legendary acting career in a candid interview with Esquire in 2017.

“For the work,” Redford told the outlet when asked how he wanted to be remembered. “What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work.”

“I’m not looking at the back end: ‘What am I going to get out of this? What’s going to be the reward?’ I’m just looking at the work, the pleasure of being able to do the work,” the acting icon said eight years before his death. 12

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“And that’s what the fun is: to climb up the mountain is the fun, not standing at the top,” he shared. “There’s nowhere to