Gene Hackman was a skilled craftsman and a great actor who's presence lit up every screen he was on but who was never a real movie star like a Tom Cruise. LFrom the day he began (on the older side compared to others) until his last film it could be said of him that he truly disappeared into a role. True of his friend Hoffman or of Hanks but not of JackNicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford or even DeNiro. Great at drama and comedy.
Thanks for your recollections and your dinner story- even if he didn’t come over and offer to autograph your dinner napkin. Maybe it would have worked if instead you had blurted out - Hey that guy at the next table looks just like Buck Barrow.
Gene Hackman was a skilled craftsman and a great actor who's presence lit up every screen he was on but who was never a real movie star like a Tom Cruise. LFrom the day he began (on the older side compared to others) until his last film it could be said of him that he truly disappeared into a role. True of his friend Hoffman or of Hanks but not of JackNicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford or even DeNiro. Great at drama and comedy.
Thanks for your recollections and your dinner story- even if he didn’t come over and offer to autograph your dinner napkin. Maybe it would have worked if instead you had blurted out - Hey that guy at the next table looks just like Buck Barrow.