That is proper — Robert Redford made his first on-screen performing look in years on Darkish Winds!
On Sunday, March 9, Redford, 88, made a cameo within the season 3 premiere of the AMC/AMC+ alongside A Tune of Ice and Hearth creator George R. R. Martin as a pair of incarcerated males in a jail taking part in a recreation of chess behind bars. The scene sees Martin’s character, named George, put Redford’s in checkmate with some assist from sequence star Zahn McClarnon, who portrays Navajo tribal police officer Joe Leaphorn on the sequence.
The episode’s director, Chris Eyre, advised Vulture that the thought for Martin, 76, and Redford to cameo on the present has been “within the air for the reason that first season.” Each males work on Darkish Winds — which follows Navajo law enforcement officials within the Seventies — as govt producers and had beforehand thought-about showing within the sequence’ season 2 finale earlier than selecting the season 3 premiere.
Based on that outlet, Redford and Martin’s scene was shot on a closed set at Redford’s request. Previous to this cameo, he final appeared on-screen in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame to reprise his function from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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In between 2019 and now, Redford additionally voiced a personality in 2020’s Omniboat: A Quick Boat Fantasia and narrated spouse Sibylle Szaggars Redford’s 2024 efficiency artwork piece “The Manner of the Rain – Hope for Earth.” He additionally made a voice cameo as Bob Woodward in HBO’s White Home Plumbers.
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“I’ve identified Bob for many years, and simply to be sitting there going, Oh, I’m gonna direct Robert Redford, struck concern in me,” Eye advised Vulture of directing the scene, which seems about 23 minutes into the season 3 premiere.
He added, “Bob is so type and he was so good on the day, and so was George. However I keep in mind Zahn turning to me once we have been about to start out capturing and he goes, ‘You’re doing a scene with Robert Redford, that’s unbelievable,’ and I stated, ‘Zahn, will you be quiet? You’re making me nervous.’ ”
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For Redford, the cameo marked a uncommon performing look for a display screen legend who first appeared in a tv sequence in a 1960 episode of the Western sequence Maverick.
Martin, in the meantime, had not appeared on display screen as an actor since 2015, when he made cameos as himself in Z Nation, the film Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! and the present Supreme Tweeter.
New episodes of Darkish Winds season 3 airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET completely on AMC and AMC+.
