So when Redford invited her and a group of friends to dinner, Szaggars recalled, she found herself thinking, “‘Oh my god. I don’t know any of his films.'” However, a pal came up with a solution and noted she could rent some of Redford’s movies from reception at Sundance.”Two nights before the dinner, I rented about six or eight videos,” Szaggars continued. And because she didn’t have time to watch all of his classics in their entirety, she “watched 15 minutes randomly out of the show.””I thought, ‘What if he wants to talk about his movies? I have no idea. It would be so embarrassing,'” the 68-year-old added. “I probably would have mixed everything up. Of course, he did not talk about his films.”

And, honestly, Redford would have been fine if she couldn’t recall a single scene.”That’s one of the things that attracted me to her—she didn’t know much about me,” the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star noted during the National YoungArts Foundation panel. “So we started from a more even playing field. I didn’t have to worry about any agenda. I’d been through that before. And so 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 or whatever.”