Gene Hackman 'Loved Being an Actor' but Everything Else About the Craft 'Drove Him Crazy,' Director Says

The acting was all for Gene Hackman.

The late actor, who died last month at the age of 95, was unwaveringly dedicated to his craft, but found some parts of the frustrating gig, director Barry Sonnenfeld recalled BBC News in an interview published on Saturday, March 1st.

In the story, Sonnenfeld, 71 and others in the movie business he remembered that he worked with a hackman who in Men in black The director’s word, “I loved being an actor and hated all the things surrounded by the actor.”

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Among the “things” that Hackman could do without hours he would often have to spend in a hair trailer and makeup, said Sonnenfeld, who directed Hackman in the 1995 criminal comedy. Shorten In addition to John Travolta and Danny Devit.

“He had that conflict,” the director recalled, “that he was that great actor, but he hated the tropics of what he needed to play in movies.”

Director Barry Sonnenfeld. Todd Williamson/Getty

The late acting icon, Sonnenfeld told BBC News, “hated makeup putting,” but did not stop there. “Putting a wardrobe,” he also despised, along with “the wardrobe person after taking, taking a lip brush and rubbing the wardrobe” and “The makeup person who recalled his hair while talking to me.”

“All such noisy hair and makeup and all these things,” the director said. “I think it was crazy.”

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Together with touches, Royal tenenbaums Star also did not like the notes of studies and scripts, usually completely rejecting them in favor of their own acting instincts, Sonnenfeld said.

He would remove all the instructions on how his character should deliver his lines, because Sonnenfeld said to BBC News: “He did not want any screenwriter to tell him that he should have felt at that moment.”

Gene Hackman (left) and John Travolta in ‘Get Shorty’ in 1995. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images

“So, he had a unique cut and glued scripts that had no information about anything from the writer,” the director added, “because he wanted to make those decisions, not the writer.”

The legendary actor also clashed with those who, in his opinion, did not take the craft as seriously as he did – which included Travolta, according to Sonnenfeld. Remembering the time of actors working on ShortenThe director said BBC News, “Gene was a top actor, technically and artistically. So every day he came to set up his lines.”

“John”, in contrast, “he set up his lines, probably did not read the script the night before,” Sonnenfeld recalled, noting that it caused a certain tension on the set of criminal comedy.

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In one case, the director recalled, Travolta asked Hackman what he had done the previous weekend. “Nothing but learn the lines,” said the late actor, what Lubricate The old one then called the “weekend waste” by the director.

AND Shorten The stars only clashed more about their different approaches that the recording continued, Sonnenfeld said.

Gene Hackman.

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“For the next 12 weeks, he would yell at me whenever John didn’t know his lines,” BBC News recalled. “But he’s great in the movie. And I knew he had never been angry with me.”

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Hackman echoed Sonnenfeld’s feelings of his love for acting – and despised most of the film creation process – in an interview with Reuters 2008, four years after he retired from acting in 2004 with more than 75 films and two Oscars under his legendary belt.

When asked if he missed acting, the late star said, “Yes, I know. I miss the real acting part, as I did for almost 60 years, and I really loved it.”

“But the job is very stressful for me,” Hackman explained at the time. “The compromises you have to shoot in movies are just part of the beast, and that came to a point where I just didn’t feel like I wanted to do it.”

Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman in 1991.

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The authorities found Hackman and his wife of 34, classic pianist Betsy Arakawa, dead at their house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Wednesday, February 26, along with one of their dogs. Two other dogs were discovered alive and healthy on the property.

After finding Hackman’s Hackman and the dead body of his wife, Santa Fe County Sheriff confirmed to the people that it was not suspected of suspected that investigators did not exclude it.

The cause of death is yet to be determined and there is an active and liquid police investigation, with the most part of the case of cases of waiting autopsy and the results of toxicology.

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