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The 80-year old star of "Out of Africa" and "The Sting" told
his grandson Dylan in an online interview that he was 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," Redford said in the interview
published on Thursday for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
"Going back to sketching — that’s sort of where my head is right
now."
Redford, who has never won an Oscar for acting despite a storied
50-year career, will not be departing from the big screen any
time soon.
He said he has two more acting projects in the works. One is a
love story for older people with Jane Fonda, his co-star in the
1967 romantic comedy "Barefoot in the Park," and the other is a
lighter movie with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek. According to
movie website IMDB.com, both movies are expected to be released
in 2017.
"Once they’re done then I’m going to say, 'Okay, that’s goodbye
to all that,' and then just focus on directing," he said.
Redford recalled that his first love was art and that he spent
time in Europe as a teenager "exploring story-telling through
painting."
Movies like "All The President's Men," "Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid" and "The Way We Were" made Redford into one of the
world's biggest movie stars of the 1970s and 1980s.
He later turned to directing, winning an Oscar for the 1980 film
"Ordinary People."
In 1978, Redford helped found what became the Sundance Film
Festival in Utah to promote independent movies, and which has
grown to be the most influential independent film gathering in
the world.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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