When Sarah was a kid, the number of movie stars who came to stay at their house was exactly one,
and it was kind of a disaster.
Robert Redford ended up at their house because he had heard about a book that Sarah's stepfather was writing,
about Leonard Peltier of the American Indian Movement.
It was still just a manuscript, and the stepfather did n't want to send copies of it around,
so he told Redford that the only way that Redford could read it is if he would do it at their house in Long Island.
Redford agreed.
Sarah says the atmosphere in the house when he arrived was completely different from any other time in her childhood.
Like consciously trying to be very charming and being very charming and talking to him a lot and asking all sorts of questions
and laughing a lot at what he said and kind of flitting about the house in a way
that I had n't remembered her doing before.
Robert Redford told stories, even the simplest story, about his trip to the house.
Her parents nodded and smiled along with an enthusiasm that the stories did not necessarily
seem to merit to 11-year-old Sarah.
I was really, I was sullen, and I think I was making a really concerted effort not to be impressed.
And now, 20 years later, I think I was jealous that he was suddenly the star of the house,
whereas I was used to being the star of the house.
I was the youngest kid, and I was sort of the one who amused my parents,
and here was this stranger coming in who had usurped my role.
And I remember when he came in, poor guy, the first night, my mother made this special dinner.