Robert Redford and Nick Nolte Have 'Synchronization'

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Nick Nolte wasn’t Robert Redford’s first choice to play his onscreen buddy in “A Walk in the Woods.”

No, the 79-year-old intended on reuniting with Paul Newman for their third film together, but years ago, when the project was first in the works, Newman’s health was in decline. His costar in “The Sting” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” died aged 83 in 2008.

So when the chance to adapt the memoir of travel writer Bill Bryson’s five-month-long 2,200-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail with an overweight, coarse, sluggish friend Steven Katz, he thought of Nolte.

“I just felt that Nick and I would do well together—I liked his work,” Redford tells Made in Hollywood. “It just fell into place very naturally, which I suspected was going to happen and it did.”

In 2012’s “The Company You Keep,” Redford starred and directed the picture. He cast Nolte in a supporting role and they appeared in a few scenes together.

Redford says they were "in synchronization with each other.”

“It was just something natural that developed between he and I," he explains.