Robert Redford, 88, gets surprise performance rewards after six years of vacation

Robert Redford After six years off, he unexpectedly returned to the performance.
88-year-old Redford appears briefly in a Western thriller Dark wind‘Sun, March 9, season 3 premiere Game of Thrones author George RR Martin. Two Dark wind The incarcerated man played by the executive producer engages in a high-risk game of high-risk chess competition.
At Redford’s request, the scene was filmed in a closed-end, involving Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) stepped in to help Martin’s character bring Redford to Checkmate.
With the effective end of the chess game, Redford’s character furious at Leaphorn as he quipped: “Thank you very much.”
Chris Eyre,,,,, Dark wind‘The director of the season 3 premiere, then told Condor Potential Redford cameo “has been in the air since the first season.” There was an initial plan for Redford to appear in Dark windThe finale of Season 2, but his guest character is eventually saved in the season 3 opener.
“I never thought I could go where I knew Robert Redford in my life, let alone be with him.” Dark wind Star and executive producer McClarnon said.

Dark wind Show host John Wirth confirmed that there were complications until the moment of the cameo filming.
“I’m never sure it will happen,” Worth admitted.
Before Sunday’s cameo Dark windRedford’s last screen appearance was in 2019 Avengers: The Final Gamerepeat his Captain America: Winter Soldier As the former shield director, transformed into the role of hydrotraitor Alexander Pierce.
Redford previously announced his starring role in 2018 Old man and gun After 60 years of career, it may be his last screen appearance.
“Never say forever, but I’ve concluded very well that it’s for me to behave, [I’ll] After that, I am heading to retire because I have been doing this since I was 21 years old. “Redford told Weekly entertainment then. “I thought, ‘Okay, that’s enough.’ Why not go out with something very optimistic and positive?”
However, Redford told him a course a month later in September 2018 type It was “wrong” to announce that he is retirement.
“I should never say that,” he admitted. “If I were to retire, I should have left the show quietly, but I shouldn’t talk about it because I think it’s getting too much attention in the wrong way. I want to focus on the film and the cast.”
Since then, Redford has continued to work behind the camera, including executive production of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Wild Horseabout the recovery of the Mustang. The sound of his lent to the 2020 anthology movie Omniboat: Clippers Fantasy Even repeated his All the president’s men Role as Watergate Reporter Bob Woodward In an uncredible vocal cameo in the HBO series White House Plumber.
Redford won the 1980s Oscar for Best Director in his respected career Common people In 1994, he won the famous Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globes. He received a career tribute to the Kennedy Center honors in 2005 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the former president Barack Obama 2016.