Being an actor for six decades, Robert Redford recently told Entertainment reporter that his current movie, “The Old Man & The Gun” will be his final acting work before his retirement.
“Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this ’cause I’ve been doing it since I was 21,” said Redford who was born on August 18, 1936. He is about to celebrate his 82nd birthday.
In the upcoming movie, Redford plays criminal Forrest Tucker who robbed banks and was caught, but then escaped from prison successfully 17 times over 60 years. Redford is a co-producer for the movie, and he’s indecisive about whether he will direct any film in the future or not.
Meanwhile the film director David Lowery doubted that Redford will really retire from being an actor this time.
“He says it’s his last leading role, at the very least, the last time he’ll star in a movie, but I don’t think he can stop. He just loves it too much,” Lowery said in an interview with USA Today.
In fact, Redford talked about quitting acting in 2016 during a Q&A session with his grandson Dylan Redford, who is an artist and gallerist. At that time, Redford was getting tired of acting and thinking about going back to painting or other artwork.
Redford has won an Academy Award twice, one for Best Director (“Ordinary People,” 1980) and the other a Lifetime Achievement Award (2001). He was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards seven times and won three times: New Star of the Year-Actor in “Inside Daisy Clover” (1965), Director of “Ordinary People” (1980), and the Cecil B. DeMille Award (1994). He is also a producer and founder of the Sundance Film Festival.
“The Old Man & The Gun” is schedule to be released on September 28, but will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
