Turns out you don’t have to be Robert Redford to have this problem.
In interviews, Redford notes that he actually enjoyed getting older because he “didn’t have to worry about being admired for his looks” so much. As a pretty boy, he says, being taken seriously has been a decades-long battle. Robert Redford has officially retired from acting, and in spite of his long and storied career as an actor, director, Sundance founder and elder statesman of film, he has also spent his life as a looker.
