Where is gene hackman

His last movie was 's Welcome to Mooseport. Hackman didn't retire because he was sick of acting but because it would be better for his health. In a interview with Empire , Hackman shared , "The straw that broke the camel's back was actually a stress test that I took in New York.

The doctor advised me that my heart wasn't in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress. Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa , have been married since and live in New Mexico. The actor has three children from his first marriage to Faye Maltese. In addition to being an actor, Hackman is a novelist. He has co-written three books with Daniel Lenihan and written two on his own. Hackman and Lenihan's first book, Wake of the Perdido Star , was published in when Hackman was still acting.

The other four books were released after retirement. His latest, Pursuit , hit shelves in For more celebrity news delivered right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. So becoming a writer would seem like a natural development. Not for the lack of trying, mind you. I really enjoyed it. Ideas would just pop into my head and I would write them down. I was more concerned about the description of the scene process, and it just got to be overlong.

When he was preparing to star alongside Tom Cruise in The Firm , and needed to learn how to scuba dive, he was put in touch with Lenihan, a local marine biologist and accomplished diver.

That became the basis for The Wake Of The Perdido Star , and the formation of an unusual writing process, whereby they would each write separate chapters, focusing on a particular character, so in Escape From Andersonville , Lenihan would focus on the lead, Nathaniel Parker, while Hackman would write chapters featuring the roguish Southern soldier, Marcel La Farge.

They also learned never to write in the same room. Where am I going? What do I want? As a writer, you can start the same way. For Hackman, the parallels between acting and writing are obvious. Unfortunately, things have gotten darker and more slick, in one way or another, and I miss that in a funny kind of way.

On several occasions during our forty-minute conversation, Hackman expresses a similar sentiment. That was kinda fun. So, instead, allow us to recall his career; one so remarkable and filled with great work that it can easily be ranked up there with that of his great hero, Marlon Brando.

Run your eye over his CV, and the great films and performances come tumbling out. The loathsome Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven , the role that would give him his second Oscar in The first, of course, came for The French Connection and his unforgettable bottling of the human lightning, Popeye Doyle, fiery, irascible, totally committed.

There are the great moments, too. There was no pretension in his work, no sense that he was doing anything other than saying these words for the first time. Lillian Gish would have loved Hackman — for you never, ever, caught him acting. View rank on IMDbPro ». He is of Pennsylvania Dutch German , English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After several moves, his family settled in Danville, Illinois See full bio ».

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