Gene Hackman retired from her long and successful career more than 20 years ago, partially forced by health problems that worried her for his wife and family.
“I try to take care of myself. I don’t have many fears,” Hackman told Larry King in 2004. “I have the normal fear of died – you know, I suppose we all think about it, especially when you become a certain age.”
He continued: “I want to make sure that my wife and family are taken care of. Other than that, I don’t have many fears.”
The winner of the Oscars and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at home on Wednesday.
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Gene Hackman retired more than 20 years ago, before his shocking death alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa. (Jeffrey Mayer / Wireimage)
Detectives believe that the circumstances surrounding the death of Hackman and his wife are suspicious of a nature to require in -depth research and investigation.
Hackman was 95 years old at the time of his death.
The actor received a close call in 1990 with “a severe angina” which required angioplasty.
He told King in 2004: “I didn’t really know the extent at the time, and it happened very quickly. I was the same day.”
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Gene Hackman was 95 years old and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was 65 years old at the time of their death. (Ron Galella Collection / Ron Galella via Getty Images)
The same year, his latest film, “Bienvenue à Mooseport”, Co-Avet Ray Romano, was published and Hackman retired from the screen.
He had told King that he hadn’t aligned anything, saying with a smile: “It’s probably everywhere. That’s it.”
Gene Hackman and Ray Romano in the 2004 film “Bienvenue à Mooseport”. (20th Century Fox Film Corp./everett Collection)
In 2008 Interview with ReutersHackman later confirmed that he had finished acting.
“I have not held a press conference to announce retirement, but, yes, I will not act anymore,” he told the point of sale. “I was told not to say it in recent years in case a truly wonderful part presents itself, but I really don’t want to do it anymore.”
After a four -year break, Hackman officially announced his retirement in 2008. (Vera Anderson / Wireimage)
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He continued: “Yes, I do it. I miss the part of a real actor, because that’s what I have done for almost 60 years, and I really loved it. But the company for me is very stressful. The compromises you have to do in the movies no longer wanted to do it.”
A year later, he admitted to Empire magazine The fact that his heart health, associated with stress, was the decisive factor in his distance from the screen.
“I want to make sure that my wife and family are taken care of. Other than that, I don’t have many fears.”
“The straw that broke the back of the camel was actually a stress test that I did in New York,” said the star of “Crimson Tide”. “The doctor advised me that my heart was not in the kind of form that I should put it under stress.”
Hackman admitted in the past that he had financial problems that prompted him to choose projects that he might not have otherwise.
One of Hackman’s last official appearances was at the Next House Espn The Magazine Party on February 4, 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Evan Agostini / Getty Images)
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One of them was “Hoosiers”, the 1986 basketball drama rented as one of the best sporting films ever made.
“I took the film at a time when I desperate money”, Hackman said to GQ In 2011. “I took it for all bad reasons, and it turned out to be one of those films that remain.”
“HOOSIERS” coincided with the hackman divorce of his first thirty -year -old wife, Faye Maltese, with whom he shared three children: Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie.
Hackman revealed himself on the over -expansion of some of his finances in an interview of 1989 with The New York Times.
Hackman admitted that he had mainly made “hosiers” for money, although he later became a certified classic. (Orion Collection Pictures Corp / Everett)
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After winning his Oscar for “The French Connection”, Hackman temporarily retired in 1977, saying at the point of sale that he had played roles that he did not think he was so great in films like “The Poseidon Adventure” ” “ Lucky Lady ” and “ “March or Die”.
“I did the poor-garçon thing,” he said at the time at the point of sale. I was very determined to succeed. I had a number of houses, cars and planes. It was like the empty barrel that has no background. ”
After a series of films like the action drama “The Poseideon Adventure”, Hackman temporarily retired in 1977 for four years. (20th Century Fox Film Corp / Everett Collection)
He resumed acting in 1981 and admitted that his career could wreak havoc on his family.
“You become very selfish as an actor,” Hackman told New York Times. “You spend so many years wanting to desperately want to be recognized as having talent, then when you start to offer yourself these pieces, it is very difficult to refuse anything. Even if I had a family, I took jobs that would separate us for three or four months at a time. The temptations in that, money and recognition was too much for the poor boy in me. I couldn’t manage this. ”
After winning an Oscar for “The French Connection”, Hackman admitted that his financial habits were not ideal. (Photo of Silver Screen Collection)
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By looking back on this low period, Hackman said Cigar AFICIONADO in 2000 That it was, at one point, millions of dollars of tax debt.
“I had to borrow my daughter’s car to go to interviews in Hollywood. Just a piece of Toyota and I should park it a few houses [away] And walking so I would not be considered as being so needy, “he said.” Yes, I was in trouble at that time. I had six, seven million dollars in debt; I had spent too much and I had a lot of tax shelters that did not work. I owed four million dollars to the government. I was barely hung, taking almost everything that was offered to me and trying to make it work. “”
At one point, Hackman had millions of dollars in debt to IRS. (Bravo / Everett collection)
He added: “From the 1970s in the mid -80s after” The French Connection “, I made four or five films in a row which did not succeed in trade, but which were considered artistically OK. And then, when they did not work, I thought: “ Well, in hell, I will do everything that gives me. So I thought I could get out of it and I managed to simulate it in several ways. “”
Hackman’s career rebounded in the late 1980s with success and films acclaimed by criticism, such as “Mississippi Burning” in 1988, which earned him his second nomination for the best actor, and later work like “Unforgiven” by Clint Eastwood, for which he won the prize for best actor in 1993.
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In 2001, he obtained his critical acclamation for his role in “The Royal Tenenbaums” of Wes Anderson, before officially ending his acting career three years later.
But Hackman has remained active in other respects, both professionally and personally.
The star of “Superman” would plunge and explore the shipwrecks and coral reefs with Arakawa, according to a profile of 2001 in Los Angeles TimesAnd he was also a regular cyclist.
In 2012, Hackman was injured when he was hit by a car while he bike in the Florida Keys. The representative of Hackman at the time said that the incident was a minor, told E! News“Gene was transported by plane (because it is on an island) to the hospital for routine tests. Everything is fine and Gene is on the way back with a few bumps and bruises.”
Luke Wilson and Gene Hackman in the 2001 film “The Royal Tenenbaums”. (Buena Vista Pictures / Everett Collection)
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The incident did not decrease its interest in the bicycle. Six years later, An Instagram publication From Santa Fe Bike Shop Broken, speech has shown that the purchase of 88 years, the purchase of an electric bicycle and the installation with an employee.
He also maintained creative interests, writing three historical fiction novels with Daniel Lenihan.
In 2011, he released his first solo novel, An Old West Story entitled “Playback at Morning Peak”, followed by another novel, “Pursuit”, in 2013.
Hackman told GQ that he wanted us to remember him “as a decent actor. As a person who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest way”. (New Century Distribution / Everett collection)
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Addressing GQ about his inheritance, Hackman said he wanted us to remember him “like a decent actor. As a person who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest way. I don’t know, beyond that.”
