Robert Redford reveals he is RETIRING from acting: ‘I'm getting tired and impatient’
ROBERT REDFORD has announced that he is retiring from acting after just two more final films.
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Robert Redford has revealed he's retiring from acting
The 80-year-old Oscar-winner revealed his plans during an interview with his grandson Dylan for the Walker Art Center.
“I’ve got two acting projects in the works,” Redford said.
“Once they’re done then I’m going to say, ‘Okay, that’s goodbye to all that,’ and then just focus on directing.”
One of his last films is Our Souls at Night, with Jane Fonda, which he describes as a “love story for older people who get a second chance in life”.
Redford starred in a number of films with the late Paul Newman
Redford said the second film - Old Man with a Gun - was a “lighter piece with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek”.
The actor, who wanted to be an artist in his early life, also spoke about how he now hopes to return to painting.
He said: “I’m getting tired of acting. I’m an impatient person, so it’s hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.”
He added: “At this point in my life, age 80, it’d give me more satisfaction because I’m not dependent on anybody.”
“It’s just me, just the way it used to be, and so going back to sketching – that’s sort of where my head is right now.
“So, I’m thinking of moving in that direction and not acting so much.”
Redford resembled Donald Trump when he was younger
Redford is most famous for films like The Sting, All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The actor has more recently acted in All Is Lost, played the villain in Captain America: The Winter Solider and gone hiking as Bill Bryson in A Walk in the Woods with Nick Nolte.
He has been nominated for four Oscars over his career, winning Best Director for Ordinary People in 1981.
It is a shame he is retiring just as Donald Trump becomes President because his similar looks mean he could have played him in a biopic.