Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford: "He told me we no longer had Nixon, but we had Trump."

BarcelonaThe death of American actor and director Robert Redford, at 89, has generated all kinds of reactions of mourning both inside and outside the film world. One has been that of the famous investigative journalist Bob Woodward, whom Redford played in All the President's Men, about the Watergate case. In a post shared on social media, Woodward has revealed his friendship with the Hollywood legend. "I loved and admired him: for his friendship, his independence, and the way he used every resource he had to help make the world a better, fairer, and brighter place for others," he says.

The journalist explains how Redford encouraged him and Carl Bernstein to explain how they conducted their investigation into the case that ended Richard Nixon's presidency. "This led to our book," he says. All the President's Men and later in the film in 1976," he says. And he shares some of the conversations about politics he had with the artist in recent years and that he recorded with his permission. In one, on New Year's Eve 2021, Redford had rewatched the iconic film that united very... everything has changed. We don't have Nixon anymore, we have Trump," Boodward explains that Redford told him then.

"We live in a country where we can't call ourselves the United States of America. We can't. We're the Divided States of America," the actor added. A few months later, in September 2022, he returned to Trump after Woodward concluded that the tycoon—at the time, the presidency was in the hands of Joe Biden—sought to destroy democracy: "He doesn't understand it [democracy]. And that's why it's easy for him to destroy it. It's easy to destroy something you don't understand. You can, you can." His yearnings for "independence" and "freedom."