Robert Redford

 The other day my cable box was having an issue so I was forced to have a cable man out to my house to fix the problem.

 

He decided that my cable box needed to be replaced (turned out he was wrong) and he apparently reset my cloud recordings.  I lost over 100 shows (mostly movies) and the remaining shows and movies now have a very short shelf life, so I have been watching movies before they disappear forever (didn't start soon enough and lost some more anyway 😒).

 

Among the movies I've watched were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Candidate, both star Robert Redford.  And both were made when he was in his early to mid-thirties - young.  Thing is, he didn't look as young as he was.  

 

This is a photo from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (where they're on the cliff about to jump to get away from the posse that's after them).  He was 32 or 33 when this came out.  To me he looks much older than that.  Paul Newman was ten years older than Redford but Redford looked older than Newman.  I kept scrutinizing his face to see if I could imagine he was in his early 30s and I couldn't.  I believe it was this film he took his shirt off though and his physique fit a man in his early 30s but his face didn't.  

 

In fact, I felt like he looked like someone then that I could date now without drawing any attention to the huge age differences even though he's old enough to be my father!  And I don't feel like he's aged well either.  I feel like Paul Newman looked younger than he was up until he got sick with cancer.

 

Don't get me wrong, I like Robert Redford and think he's a talented actor.  It's just . . . I wonder, did he ever look young?