Robert Redford: ‘I Feel Out of Place In The Country I Was Born Into'
There's always Venezuela!
[Indie Wire, via Drudge] - Robert Redford may be done acting, but he’s not riding off into the sunset anytime soon. The actor, filmmaker, and Sundance Film Festival founder published "A Brief Statement About Big Things" on the Sundance Institute’s website yesterday, writing that he feels "out of place in the country I was born into" for the first time he can remember and that he has "watched with sadness as our civil servants have failed us."
The overtly political speech was published the same day that Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court following a nasty confirmation process that once again emphasized how bitterly divided the country has become. Neither Kavanaugh nor anyone else is mentioned by name, but Redford citing "bigotry, mean-spiritedness, and mockery as the now-normal tools of the trade" suggests his anger probably isn’t directed at Amy Klobuchar.
Posted by: Raj 2018-10-09 |