SHORT TAKES : Co-Star Calls Redford ‘Sweet’

Lena Olin of the new film “Havana” says love scenes can be tricky, but Robert Redford was a charm.

“He was sweet,” Olin, 35, said in the Dec. 17 issue of People. The Swedish-born actress plays a political activist who has a love affair with a gambler played by Redford in the movie, set during the Cuban revolution.

“Actually those scenes were saved until we had shot for quite a while because usually it’s good that you get some kind of intimacy with the person,” she said.

“I mean, I could’ve done it the first day since he is the way he is, but it’s even nicer when you get to know how sweet he is.”

Olin starred in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and won an Oscar nomination for her role in “Enemies: A Love Story.”