United Kingdom, Dec. 11 -- Glenn Close was "too clueless" to realise she went on a date with Robert Redford.

The All's Fair actress starred with the late screen legend - who passed away in September at the age of 89 - in 1984 drama The Natural and after filming finished, he invited her out for dinner at a "very romantic restaurant" but she didn't realise there was more to the evening than just a meal.

Speaking on Lemonada Media's Wiser Than Me podcast, she said: "After we did The Natural, Robert Redford 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.

"But he found Billy [Sibylle Szaggars, his widow]. But, yeah... It's ...