Robert Redford said, "I do not feel in the place of the country where I was born"

Robert Redford did not hesitate to say what he thought about the current state of politics in the United States.

In a statement posted on the Sundance Institute website, the 82-year-old revealed that "for the first time" in his life, he felt "out of place" in his own country.

"Tonight, for the first time in my memory, I do not feel in the place of the country where I was born and the citizenship I have loved all my life," said the actor. veteran in the article on Friday. "For weeks, I sadly witnessed the failure of our officials, who turned to fanaticism, pettiness and mockery as instruments now normal trade.

"How can we expect the next generation to engage and serve, to be interested in public life and to aspire to be involved as we show them everything we need to know about fighting, attacking and destroying ourselves? Asked the Hollywood star. "It is hard to blame young people for calling us and highlighting our conflicts between the values ​​we declare and those with which we are behind only when it is conducive to partisanship. Many people rightly call it a bloody mess. "

The founder of the Sundance Film Festival did not report news or politicians. However, this entry was published during the battle around the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after he was charged with sexual assault in high school. The 53-year-old senator was confirmed by the Senate on Saturday.

"… I want to encourage you to dig deep to get hope and citizenship now, to try to connect with people you do not agree with, to be better than our politicians," he said. Redford.

"We do not have to share the same motivations to achieve the same results. Let's focus on each other, strengthen our communities and think about what's going on. Let's live in justice and respect and let others fight to the end. It is also our country. Every woman, every man and every child in it, represents our American future. We have work to do. "

Redford hit the headlines in September, revealing that it was a "mistake" to call his latest film, titled "The Old Man & the Gun", as his last.

"Well, I think it was a mistake to say that it was my last film," Redford told Fox News on the occasion of the premiere of the new feature at the Paris Theater. "I think I could have just done without the actor to focus on my own category. But I think it was a mistake to talk about that because it distracted the attention of the film and the rest of the cast and the story in which we were involved, so it was probably an error. "

In August, Redford told Entertainment Weekly that he was considering retiring after playing in the Lowery film. Although he stressed in the interview, "never say never".

"Never say never, but I have pretty well concluded that it was for me to act, and [I’ll] to retire after that because I've been doing it since I was 21, "he told EW at the time.

Morgan Evans of Fox News contributed to this report.