Looking frail and gaunt, 81-year-old actor Burt Reynolds needed some deliverance from the dog-and-pony show on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday.
The “Deliverance’’ and “Smokey and the Bandit’’ actor walked into the event leaning on a cane but soon also needed a stool while he posed with festival founder Robert De Niro and Chevy Chase, who co-stars with him in the new flick “Dog Years.”
The movie is semi-autobiographical: Reynolds plays an 80-year-old actor who was once a major movie star and sex symbol.
Photos from the event also showed Reynolds — dressed in a corn blue shirt, black suit and his trademark aviator glasses — leaning on co-star Ariel Winter for support.
“Dog Years” is being plugged by producers as “a tale about faded fame, but at its core, it’s a universal story about growing old.”