Robert Redford

My favourite living movie star is looking at me. We shake hands. His gaze is direct. His voice familiar. Five decades on from his role as the Sundance Kid, he may have aged, but those eyes and that voice are exactly the same. Robert Redford is in the room. The attraction of a movie star is about distance; it’s in the name. True stars are stratospheric, unreal, impossible. When they clap eyes on you, and shake your hand, it crosses the circuits in your brain. Redford, with his black long-sleeved shirt and dark jeans, that famous head of.