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Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity. I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution."
Posting on Instagram he wrote On 26 February, 2025 at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95 and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64 and a dog were found deceased."
The Santa Fe County Sheriff's office said Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it,
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press,
I suppose I wanted to be an actor from the time I was about 10, maybe even younger than that,
The straw that broke the camel’s back was actually a stress test that I took in New York,
Doing the Mamet thing wasn’t a lot of fun,
he told The New York Times in 2001. If I could do it in my own house, maybe, without them disturbing anything and just one or two people.
In 2011, he was asked by GQ if he would ever come out of retirement to do one more film, to which Hackman responded He's one of the ones who are willing to plunge their arm into the fire as far as it can go,
I haven't held a press conference to announce retirement, but yes, I'm not going to act any longer.
All I can say is that we're in the middle of a preliminary death investigation, waiting on approval of a search warrant. This is an active investigation – however, at this time, we do not believe that foul play was a factor,
I had to arouse an anger in Gene that was lying dormant, I felt, within him — that he was sort of ashamed of and didn’t really want to revisit,
Friedkin told the Los Angeles Review of Books in 2012. I’ll watch maybe five minutes of it, ... and I’ll get this icky feeling, and I turn the channel.”
he once told Time magazine To his credit, and my joy, he talked me into it,
Hackman said of Eastwood during an interview with the American Film Institute Actors tend to be shy people,
he told Film Comment in 1988 Dysfunctional families have sired a lot of pretty good actors,
he observed ironically during a 2001 interview with The New York Times The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima.”
His only credit in recent years was narrating a Smithsonian Channel documentary Douglas told me, ... Gene, you'll never get what you want with the way you're acting.' And he didn't mean acting; he meant I was not behaving myself. He taught me not to use my reservations as an excuse for not doing the job."
In his 2001 Times interview, he recalled His outbursts [on-screen] were aimed directly at me ... more than the drug smugglers,
the volatile director said Do You Pick Your Feet In Poughkeepsie? Huh, huh?”
Friedkin later guiltily admitted the two men had their squabbles
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