Robert Redford had to fight off women including co-stars Jane Fonda and infatuated Barbra Streisand: sources

Robert Redford had to fight off some of Hollywood’s most famous women, including Jane Fonda and an “infatuated” Barbra Streisand.Even Meryl Streep admitted to having a “huge crush” on Redford while they filmed “Out of Africa.”Indeed, the screen legend, who died Tuesday at 89 at his home in Utah, made everyone fall in love with him — as evidenced by a stream of doting tributes from his leading ladies, including Demi Moore and Michelle Pfeiffer.Streisand has said she took it upon herself to persuade Redford to star with her in the 1973 classic “The Way We Were” and was “infatuated” with the heartthrob according to writer Robert Hofler. But Redford reportedly wore “two athletic supporters” to “protect himself” while filming “The Way We Were” with Streisand, who was rumored to have had romances with her co-stars over the years.He also pushed the star to wear a bikini for their intimate scenes to make sure the shots were “pretty G-rated.”Still, Redford had an image to maintain.During one of their sex scenes, he reportedly refused to say the line, “It will be better this time.”“Redford was never bad in bed,” and so his character could never be either, Hofler wrote in his book, “The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen.”One Streisand insider even believes there was at least an off-screen flirtation between the two, but says the singer will never spill the beans.After his death, Streisand posted on Instagram: “Every day on the set of ‘The Way We Were’ was exciting, intense and pure joy.“We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.”Meanwhile, Fonda told The Post, “It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone.

I can’t stop crying.He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way.

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