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Gene Hackman: Hollywood legend dies aged 95 (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yea wow. The article quotes the wife as ages 64 or so. Kinda weird if you ask me.

On Hackman, I recall Morgan freeman saying that he was the only actor that scared him, that when Hackman’s character was angry and aggressive at Freeman’s, he was convinced that the aggression was real and instinctively scared accordingly. IIRC, he said Hackman was the only one he’d seen who had that acting power.

[–] thessnake03 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Could be carbon monoxide or something wierd. You never know

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

That would be in line with the "no immediate indication of foul play"

The Press Association confirmed there is an “active investigation’’ into the deaths. Sheriff Mendoza said there was no immediate indication of foul play. He did not provide a cause of death or say when the couple might have died.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/27/gene-hackman-dies-wife-dog-95

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago

I think the wife od'd on pills and Hackman fell and never got back up, while the dog starved/dehydrated from being trapped in a closet.