“I felt I made a mistake by even talking about retirement,” the actor, director, producer and founder of the Sundance Institute said in an interview this week. He was referring to his announcement in August that his new movie, the true-life heist comedy “The Old Man & the Gun,” would be his final movie role. (The movie opens widely, including in Utah theaters, on Friday.)
“I should just slip quietly away,” Redford said. “I said it was probably my last as an actor. I didn’t want to hit that too hard. But at Telluride and Toronto [film festivals], it took the focus away from what the movie was about.