Maybe. ...but not for the reason you may think.
The deep state writes the script.
These are not the personal opinions of Robert Redford (who will die of old age soon).
Robby’s publicist passes the comments from the deep state to him to read in a pre-arranged media moment.
It looks spontaneous, but it’s a carefully orchestrated play being performed in public.
It’s candid camera without the reveal.
I remember seeing Tom Brokaw on a talk show gloating about how he and Redford would hang out together and at a rural gas station somewhere the other customers would react in amazement to see both of them.
They’re both just talent, is what you’re saying.