In 2013 he starred in All Is Lost, a harrowing movie about a middle-aged man stranded at sea in a crippled sailboat, a role for which not a few people thought he deserved an Oscar. The twilight years have actually been pretty good to Redford, and lately he has been busier than in a long while. ‘All Is Lost’ Takes the Words Out of Robert Redford’s Mouth.‘All Is Lost’: Garbo Talked, Redford Doesn’t.That’s what makes you want to keep looking at him.” You’re never going to get it all, and that’s the secret, that’s the mystery. But he remains a remarkably handsome and youthful-seeming man, not greatly altered from the one who imprinted himself on our collective imagination back in 1969, when he emerged in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the very embodiment of what it means to be a star: dazzling but also a little remote and unreachable.Ī luminary herself, and Redford’s co-star in the 1973 hit The Way We Were, said of him in April, at an awards ceremony honoring Redford at Lincoln Center: “You never quite know what he’s really thinking, and that makes him fascinating to watch on the screen. Those burning blue eyes have melted back a little into the hollows, and the famous Redford mane, once so blond that Pauline Kael said it wasn’t platinum but plutonium, has lost some of its sheen. GREAT MOVIE STARS age differently from the rest of us.
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