Robert Redford: Hollywood Won't Put Me in Movies Anymore
Robert Redford laments not being asked to star in movies anymore.
PARK CITY, Utah<br/> Jan. 26, 2011— -- Sundance: It's the place where Hollywood lets its hair down. In the midst of non-stop parties and premieres, actors cut loose, open up, and reveal how they really feel about the entertainment industry.
Robert Redford, for one, is not too pleased. This week, the 74-year-old iconic actor and founder of the Sundance Film Festival lamented that no one asks him to be in movies anymore.
He told ABC News Now's "Popcorn With Peter Travers:" "I ask the question -- I say, 'Hey I'd like to be [in that movie]' and they say, 'Would you? You're kidding.' And I say 'No.'"
He added, "Something is happening over the years that makes a lot of people think that I don't do this anymore, when the truth is, it's what I enjoy most."
While there have been reports that Redford might reprise his role as Hubbell opposite Barbara Streisand's Katie in a remake of "The Way We Were," he dismissed the rumors, saying "maybe that's Barbara out there talking about it." Instead, Redford said he's focusing on stories that have yet to be told. He'll take on a major role in a Jackie Robinson bio-pic and star in a film adaptation of Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods," about a travel writer who attempts to walk The Appalachian Trail.
Redford led a slew of loquacious Sundance stars. Below, check out what else celebrities revealed to ABCNews.com at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival:
Elizabeth Olsen (star of "Martha Macy May Marlene," "Silent House" and widely thought to be Sundance's 2011 "It Girl") on the difference between her and her older actress/entrepreneur sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley: "When I was seven or eight, I started doing musical theater that I have videos of, that are really awful, but I lived for doing that. I pretty much tried to do anything where I could perform. I was that one-in-the-family. As much as my sisters were always on set, I was the one performing. … My sisters are amazing businesswomen. They work their butts off. But all I ever wanted to do was act -- be an actor."
