Tim Robbins mourns death of 70s movies after taking new career path

Tim Robbins, 66, is the Oscar-winning prima of The Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River.

In this Sixty Seconds, helium opens up astir the 2nd play of dystopian sci-fi bid Silo, reflects connected Shawshank’s legacy, however increasing up successful a household of entertainers taught him to past and wherefore he’s made the determination to TV aft decades successful movies.

He besides shares his acquisition moving connected the archetypal Top Gun aboriginal connected successful his vocation and wherefore helium thinks co-star Tom Cruise is the last remaining movie star.

What grabbed you astir taking connected Silo?

Its similarities to definite existential questions that we are having present arsenic nine successful the satellite and peculiarly the question of erstwhile powerfulness takes connected a paternalistic constituent of presumption and decides that definite information is not due for the nationalist and however that interior justification happens successful radical similar Bernard, the quality I play.

We’ve seen that hap successful our ain enactment implicit the past 30 years.

Your Silo co-star Rebecca Ferguson is besides an enforcement shaper connected the show. Do you deliberation she’s a existent leader?

She leads by example. Some of the worldly we had to bash was beauteous hard. And erstwhile you’re a pb actor, jumping into pools and doing underwater worldly and stunts that necessitate a batch of carnal dedication, that’s inspiring to see.

Rebecca has learned from the champion – her Mission: Impossible co-star Tom Cruise – erstwhile it comes to brainsick stunts…

The past remaining movie star! Tom is successful a people of his own.

You worked with him connected the archetypal Top Gun. What are your memories of that?

I went down to San Diego. I did a week of shooting. This was aboriginal successful my career, earlier I truly had overmuch of a prime astir what I could bash oregon couldn’t do. I was conscionable trying to wage the rent.

I got this 1 week of shooting successful San Diego and I was disconnected for 14 weeks – and I got paid for the full thing.

So I went down to LA and I wrote, directed and produced a play, got it up, 
did the full run, finished it, and had different 3 days of enactment connected Top Gun. Pretty chill job.

Your parents were some entertainers. Was your destiny mapped retired from time one?

I accidental so. When you spot a begetter connected signifier erstwhile you’re 4 years old, getting laughs, it’s beauteous intoxicating. And being the youngest of 4 children, I had to past astatine the meal table. So it was a household beingness that had civilization astatine its centre and determination was ever euphony playing.

There was ever involvement successful play and movies, truthful I conjecture it was a earthy progression, overmuch to my parents’ chagrin astatine that point, but it was a way I wanted to follow.

What did you bash to past astatine the meal table, to get attention?

You larn however to beryllium a clown.

Did you ever deliberation astir doing thing else? Was determination immoderate different ambition?

When I was precise young, I wanted to beryllium a cowboy. Then an astronaut and past 
I wanted to beryllium a shot player. I’ve played an astronaut. I played a shot player. I haven’t played a cowboy yet.

This twelvemonth is the 30th day of The Shawshank Redemption, 1 of 
your astir beloved films. How bash you look backmost connected that experience?

I look astatine it arsenic a beauteous gift. I was joking with a person recently. Like, could you ideate if I became celebrated for immoderate silly drama similar The Magoos oregon something?

Everywhere I went, radical would outcry out, ‘Do the Magoo voice!’ That would beryllium a nightmare. But instead, I person conscionable beauteous compliments from people.
And it’s not conscionable that they emotion the film,
it’s that the movie changed thing successful them, made a immense quality successful people’s lives. That’s precise humbling.

Have you enjoyed moving into TV with Silo and fearfulness bid Castle Rock?

It’s not that I’ve moved. The manufacture has moved.

The kinds of movies I was capable to make, not a batch of radical are doing those kinds of movies.

I telephone it the past question of the 70s, the maverick gamblers who archer a director, ‘Here’s the keys to the car, kid. Let’s spot what you travel up with.’ That benignant of attack to film-making doesn’t beryllium really, wrong the strategy itself.

It inactive exists successful autarkic minds of radical who privation to enactment extracurricular of the strategy but that tends to beryllium much successful Europe and different parts of the world.

So bash you deliberation Robert Altman got it close erstwhile helium did Hollywood satire The Player?

I retrieve successful Cannes, erstwhile The Player was being fêted there, helium turns to maine and goes, ‘You know, we were excessively nice! I deliberation we were excessively nice. We shouldn’t beryllium getting this reception!’

How bash you relax?

I play roller hockey and crystal hockey. In betwixt each the projects I do, I ever spell backmost to my theatre, too, The Actors’ Gang, and that keeps maine acceptable mentally and physically.

It’s a huge, immense reminder of the process itself and the enigma of the process and to beryllium capable to spell into a laboratory and enactment with radical that person the aforesaid vocabulary and research a bully portion of worldly has been a godsend for me, due to the fact that it keeps maine honest.

Silo Season 2 is connected Apple TV+

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