Legendary actor Robert Redford has confirmed he will retire from acting after the release of his upcoming movie, The Old Man & the Gun.
The 81-year-old star has confirmed his new film, which also stars Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek, will be his last big screen outing. No Irish date has been set for its release yet.
The film is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), and his bold escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an "unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
"Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession."
Confirming that the upcoming movie would be his swansong, Redford told Entertainment Weekly, "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.
"I thought, well, that’s enough. And why not go out with something that’s very upbeat and positive?"
Redford won the Best Director Oscar for his 1980 film Ordinary People and also received an honorary Oscar in 2002. His acting career began in the 1960s and he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 1974 for his performance opposite Paul Newman in the classic The Sting.
Other celebrated performances include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Natural, Out of Africa and All is Lost.
Redford was most recently seen on screens in the 2016 Disney adventure Pete's Dragon and Netflix movie Our Souls at Night, released in 2017.
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