Gene Hackman, 94, spotted in new photos wearing nearly identical outfit from weeks earlier
09.04.2024 - 20:45
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during a recent public outing with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 62, on March 28.The actor has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since the ‘80s. He married Arakawa, a pianist, in 1992, but is rarely seen in public with her. She’s his second wife, after Faye Maltese, who he divorced in 1986 and had three children with.
Hackman gave an interview to Larry King in 2004 where he revealed that he rarely did interviews because, “I don’t like to talk about myself that much. I don’t know. It’s the same as watching myself on film, it makes me uncomfortable.
I love doing the acting. I love that part of it.”“The French Connection” star added, “When I’m doing it, I’m just totally enraptured. But when I see myself up on the screen, it’s that — I see my grandfather there or something, you know? I see — you know, I think of myself as being 21.
You do, too, I know. Yes. But then, when you see yourself, it’s a whole different story.”During that 2004 Larry King interview, Hackman, who spent four years in the Marines before turning to Hollywood, said that he got into it because of his mother.
“I was very taken with the early days of James Cagney and Errol Flynn and Edward G. Robinson and those kinds of films. Very taken with that.
And my mother and I were at a film once, and we came out through the lobby and she said, ‘I want to see you do that someday,’” he explained. “And that was all that was needed. Because I already wanted to do it.
But you have to have somebody tell you, or you need to be pushed a bit. And that’s the only thing she’s ever said to me about acting. Was she wanted to see me do that.” He also announced his retirement from acting, saying: “It’s probably all over.” He added, “I try to take care of myself.