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


Seems there are no ‘maverick gamblers’ in Hollywood nowadays (Picture: Getty)

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

In this Sixty Seconds, he opens up about the second season of dystopian sci-fi series Silo, reflects on Shawshank’s legacy, how growing up in a family of entertainers taught him to survive and why he’s made the move to TV after decades in movies.

He also shares his experience working on the original Top Gun early on in his career and why he thinks co-star Tom Cruise is the last remaining movie star.

What grabbed you about taking on Silo?

Its similarities to certain existential questions that we are having now as society in the world and particularly the question of when power takes on a paternalistic point of view and decides that certain truth is not appropriate for the public and how that internal justification happens in people like Bernard, the character I play.

We’ve seen that happen in our own leadership over the past 30 years.

Your Silo co-star Rebecca Ferguson is also an executive producer on the show. Do you think she’s a real leader?

She leads by example. Some of the stuff we had to do was pretty hard. And when you’re a lead actor, jumping into pools and doing underwater stuff and stunts that require a lot of physical dedication, that’s inspiring to see.

Rebecca has learned from the best – her Mission: Impossible co-star Tom Cruise – when it comes to crazy stunts…

Tom Cruise does his own stunts even now (Credits: Shutterstock)

The last remaining movie star! Tom is in a class of his own.

You worked with him on the original Top Gun. What are your memories of that?

I went down to San Diego. I did a week of shooting. This was early in my career, before I really had much of a choice about what I could do or couldn’t do. I was just trying to pay the rent.

I got this one week of shooting in San Diego and I was off for 14 weeks – and I got paid for the whole thing.

So I went down to LA and I wrote, directed and produced a play, got it up, 
did the whole run, finished it, and had another three days of work on Top Gun. Pretty cool job.

They worked together again in War Of The Worlds (Picture: Publicity Pictures)

Your parents were both entertainers. Was your destiny mapped out from day one?

I suppose so. When you see a father on stage when you’re four years old, getting laughs, it’s pretty intoxicating. And being the youngest of four children, I had to survive at the dinner table. So it was a family life that had culture at its centre and there was always music playing.

There was always interest in drama and movies, so I guess it was a natural progression, much to my parents’ chagrin at that point, but it …read more

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