Luckily for her, though, Redford didn’t bring up any of his movies.

“Of course, he did not talk about it so I was rescued and saved,” she said.

In the end, her unfamiliarity with his work as an actor worked in her favor. Redford said he liked this about Szaggars. He said he “didn’t have to worry about any agenda.”

“It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being colored by success,” he said.

The couple married in 2009.

They were environmental activists

Redford and Szaggars shared a deep interest in environmental causes. Szaggars founded a nonprofit called The Way of Water in 2015, and Redford served as the vice president. Redford felt passionately about the environment for much of his career.

“I was attending a conference in Denver, in 1989, where there was a presentation by two scientists who explained Earth’s temperatures were rising — they called it global warming,” he told Rolling Stone. “They explained what would happen if we ignored this threat. That moment was my wake-up call. I knew they were speaking the truth. Because one thing we’ve learned is that time waits for no one. I realized that when there’s something you have to do, you better act, and act quickly.”

Robert Redford married his first wife in 1958

Before marrying Szaggars, Redford was in a relationship with his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen. They married in 1958, before his acting career took off.