Robert Redford 'Pretty Much' Hikes 2,000-Mile Appalachian Trail in 'A Walk in the Woods'

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Robert Redford didn’t quite hike the entire Appalachian Trail, but it sure did feel like it when he was filming “A Walk in the Woods.”

“Very often you do take after take, so when you do a section where you’re hiking up the trail, you go back and do it again and again,” he explains to Made in Hollywood. “It’s pretty much like hiking the trail—not 2,000 miles, but a lot more hiking than you’d imagine.”

In the biopic, the 79-year-old actor brings to life the story of travel writer Bill Bryson’s journey, based on the 1998 book that shares the movie title, that stretched from Georgia to Maine with a long-lost friend, played by Nick Nolte.

Co-starring Emma Thompson and Mary Steenburgen, “A Walk in the Woods” opens Friday.