Robert Redford Made an unexpected return to the performance after a six -year hiatus.
88 -year -old Redford came briefly in the western thriller Dark winds‘ Premiere of season 3 on Sunday, March 9, next to Game of Thrones author George Rr Martin. The duo, which are both Dark winds The executive producers interpreted incarcerated men engaged in a higher chess game in the bars.
The scene, which was shot in a closed set at the request of Redford, involved the Navajo Tribal Police Officer Joe Lephorn (Zahn McClarnon) To intervene in the game to help Martin’s character put Redford in Checkmate.
With the chess party effectively, the character of Redford shot a annoying look at Leaphorn as he set aside: “Thank you very much.”
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Chris Eyre, Dark winds“The director of the premiere of season 3, he said later Vulture That a potential Cameo de Redford had been “in the air since the first season”. There were initial plans for Redford to appear in Dark winds“The second final of the season, but his guest role was saved by the opening of season 3.
“I never thought I could get to a place in my life where Robert Redford would know, let alone be in a scene with him.” Dark winds Said Star and executive producer McClarnon.
Dark winds Showrunner John Wirth confirmed that there were complications until the cameo was shot.
“I was never sure it happened until it happened,” Wirth admitted.
Before Sunday cameo Dark windsThe last Appearance of the Redford screen was 2019 Avengers: Endgamein which he represented his Captain America: The Winter Soldier Paper as former director of the shield converted into Hydra Tractor Alexander Pierce.
Redford previously announced that his leading role in 2018 The old man and the gun it would probably be their appearance on the final screen After 60 years of career.
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“Never say ever, but I concluded quite well that this would be for me in terms of action and ((I will pass) towards retirement after this cause I have done since 21 years old,” said Redford Weekly entertainment At that moment. “I thought,” well, it is enough. “And why not go out with something very optimistic and positive?”
However, Redford reversed the course a month later in September 2018, when he told him Variety It was “a mistake” to announce that he was retiring.
“I should never say that,” he admitted. “If I will withdraw myself, I just have to move away from the performance, but I should not talk -because I think it catches too much attention in the wrong way. I want to be focused on this movie and the cast.”
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Since then, Redford has continued to work behind the cameras, including the executive producing the success of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Mustangabout the rehabilitation of wild horses. Lent his voice to the 2020 Anthology movie Omniboat: A fast boat fantasy and even represented his All the men of the President paper as a Watergate journalist Bob Woodward In a vocal cameo not credited to the HBO series White House Blumadors.
Throughout his dear career, Redford won the best Oscar director for the 1980s People running and received the prestigious Cecil B. Demille of the 1994 Golden Globes. He was the recipient of a career tribute to the Kennedy Center honors in 2005 and was awarded the Presidential Freedom Medal by the former President. Barack Obama In 2016.