Come on, guys, this actor is old and obviously decided not to act anymore for his reasons. Perhaps health-related.
Sure, there are the actors who are still acting or directing, but not everyone at that age can do it.
I didn't like Sean Connery's last film, but it didn't negate all of his previous work that matter to me.
My dad is 2 years younger and has been in poor health after he had worked for decades. Had he wanted to go back to work as a government contractor after he retired, he wouldn't be able to. He is too ill when he was healthy up to age 71.
Some of you seem to act like folks in their 70s and 80s still can work as if they were still 30. Some can, but the others can't. They are no longer 30, or 40, or 50, or 60 while they can still work. It's called getting old and not being able to keep up. That's the problem with Hollywood trying to unrealistically project eternal youth, manliness, beauty, and no injuries from brutal fights in movies.
Pacino and De Nero will follow suit in the near future. I'll be sad when they can't or decide not to act anymore, but no one is or can be humanly immortal.
Then, you will need to let go of them at that point.
Just watch their previous movies and marvel at them... and smile. You will still honor them in that way.
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Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.
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