Barbra Streisand said working with Robert Redford on the 1973 romance The Way We Were was “exciting, intense, and pure joy” in a tribute to the late actor .

Like the characters they played in Sydney Pollack’s film, Streisand said she and Redford were “such opposites.” Though rather than being divided on cultural and political lines like Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner, Streisand quipped: “He was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them!”

“Yet,” Streisand continued, “we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.”

“Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting — and one of the finest actors ever,” Streisand said. She went on to recall the last time they saw each other, saying: “He came to lunch, we discussed art

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