Robert Redford: ‘I Feel Out of Place in the Country I Was Born Into’

indiewire.com ^ | 10/6/18 | Michael Nordine

[a little elbow grease]

"Our civil servants have failed us," he said in a statement.

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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.

[RonnG]

So do I, Mr. Redford. My neighbourhood is predominantly foreign-born Hispanic now. With a good smattering of Muslims, Africans, meth heads, and native-born ferals. Things aren’t looking like they looked in the 60s and 70s, that’s for sure.

I wonder what HIS neighborhood looks like?

[Anti-Bubba182]

The more rich old liberals talk like this the better I like it. You know the country is on the right track.

[Phil DiBasquette]

My 12 yo self thought Jeremiah Johnson wasnt awful...is it?

[Savage Beast]

Redford’s always been out of place in America. He’s just slow to realize it.

[oldbill]

Didn’t he play Dan Rather?

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

“Memmmmmm-orrrrr-ies may be beautiful and yet . . .”

[Disambiguator]

Hey, I know where that graphic came from! I have the book.

[sheana]

I buy his salad dressing when it’s on clearance. Oh wait, that’s Paul Newman. Lol

[Bookshelf]

ACT? The only film role he could fill would be in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[moovova]

Bob starts out by badmouthing our country and our government...then tells everyone else to make nice-nice.

Take a hike, Bob.

[lurked_for_a_decade]

Thats the way Ike and the pathfinders of the 101st cut their hair just before they jumped into Normandy. ( Wink, Wink, nod, nod, say no more, say no more. )

[Buckeye McFrog]

‘I Feel Out of Place in the Country I Was Born Into’

So do we, Bobby. So do we.

[a little elbow grease]

You said it!

[Jeff Chandler]

I remember Robert Redford.

[Jeff Chandler]

They’re like the dead people in The Sixth Sense who don’t realize they’re dead.

Well thanks for ruining it for us.

[AmericanMermaid]

That’s the limousine liberal way, of course!

[AmericanMermaid]

Ken’s dressings are better and often on sale, lol!

[KC Burke]

Mr. Redford,

You spent a lifetime in an artificial environment so it is easy to understand why you are ill at ease with the countrymen of your birth.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

out of place in the country I was born into

Welcome to the party, pal.

[Cecily]

He wouldn’t even attempt an English accent in “Out of Africa” to represent the Denys Finch-Hatton character authentically. Even Ryan O’Neal gave an Irish accent a go in “Barry Lyndon.”