Glenn Close Recalls a Dinner with Robert Redford She Didn’t Realize Was a Date: ‘I Was Too Clueless’

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• Glenn Close appeared recently on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ podcast, Wiser Than Me

• Close once went to “a very romantic restaurant” for dinner with Robert Redford, which she apparently didn’t realize was a date

• “I was too clueless and unknowing and unsure to even consider that I might have dated him,” the Wake Up Dead Man star recalled

Glenn Close once had a romantic dinner with Robert Redford — if only she had realized it was a date!

Speaking with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the fourth season premiere of her podcast, Wiser Than Me from Lemonada Media, Close, 78, recalled that she “didn’t get it” when the late Redford once invited her out.

In 1984 after they costarred in The Natural, Close said, the actor-director “invited me to a very romantic restaurant where we had dinner together. And I was too clueless and unknowing and unsure to even consider that I might have dated him.”

Louis-Dreyfus, 64, gasped, responding, “Oh. My. God.”

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Glenn Close and Robert Redford in ‘The Natural’

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“I didn’t know,” said Close with a sigh, noting that Redford later “found” Sibylle Szaggars, who he married in 2009.

“But lucky you, you got to work with him,” said the Veep Emmy winner. “You lucky duck.”

“Yeah,” agreed Close. “But how dorky was that?”

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The eight-time Oscar nominee also called herself “such a dork” at age 21 when Louis-Dreyfus asked what she would tell her younger self. “Pull yourself together,” joked Close, would be her advice to herself. “Get an education!”

Redford, who died on Sept. 16 at age 89, starred with Close, Robert Duvall, Kim Basinger and more in baseball drama The Natural. This January on Watch What Happens Live, Close named Redford as her “best onscreen kiss” during the show’s “Plead the Fifth” segment with Andy Cohen.

“I only got to kiss him once… maybe we did two takes,” she recalled. “But I ended up with him.”

Close’s Wiser Than Me interview with Louis-Dreyfus also covered many of her most iconic screen roles, the guest house she’s built to spend her final days, and becoming a grandmother with the arrival of daughter Annie Starke’s son Rory.

Close stars in Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (in select theaters now and streaming on Netflix Dec. 12) and Ryan Murphy’s Hulu drama All’s Fair, now airing its first season. Among her upcoming projects is The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (in theaters Nov. 20, 2026).

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