After nearly 60 years of playing outlaws, journalists and other outsiders, Robert Redford is ready to hang up his acting hat.
The actor, filmmaker and founder of the Utah-based Sundance Institute has announced he will retire from acting, and that his next movie, “The Old Man and the Gun,” will be his last in front of the camera.
Redford, who turns 82 on Aug. 18, made this announcement in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, posted online Monday. A spokeswoman for Redford confirmed the EW report.
“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,” Redford told EW.