Robert Redford was intent on trying to promote the documentary TV series “The New Heroes” this week, but he also took time to answer the inevitable “Deep Throat” questions.

The co-star almost 30 years ago of the Watergate movie “All the President’s Men” (playing reporter Bob Woodward), Redford had a number of reactions to the recent revelation that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was the mysterious Washington Post source played by Hal Holbrook in the film.

Harking back to the 25th anniversary of Watergate, and now again with the Felt news, Redford says he has been surprised at the public’s fixation with Deep Throat’s identity instead of the political lessons.

“OK,” Redford says, “who it was is of interest, but now let’s look at what it means in relation to where we are today, and what that was yesterday, and a kind of historical perspective.

“And I didn’t see a lot of that going on, and that was disappointing to me.”

Redford says he never zeroed in on Felt in his guessing.

“I was caught by surprise, obviously,” Redford says. “I’d been through my time thinking about it, you know, when I was making the film. Part of me didn’t want it to come out because it was too good a theatrical piece for the film. But after the film was over, I speculated like everybody else.

“I asked Woodward if he was going to tell me; he said, ‘No,’ and I respected that.”