Despite their chemistry and long personal friendship, Redford was never to team up again with Newman, who died in 2008. It’s not easy being Robert Redford,” he once told New York Magazine. Deciding he wanted to be an artist, he moved to Italy and later New York to study painting. Redford remained active in films as an actor and producer right up to the end of his life. “I live for sex scenes with him,” Fonda told journalists when the film premiered in Venice.