Gene Hackman ‘loved acting and hated everything that went with her’

“He loved being an actor and hated all the things they surround as an actor.”

This, for filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld, is that he will remember Gene Hackman, who died at the age of 95.

Endless hours in hair and makeup, repeated taking, and study notes frustrated hackman, Sonnenfeld told BBC News.

So are the actors who have appeared that they do not know their lines – especially John Travolta, with whom Hackman clashed on the set of 1995’s film, Get Shorty, who directed Sonnenfeld.

In the days of the news of Hackman’s death, I talked to people who, like Sonnenfeld, knew and worked with him.

What is immediately clear is how serious Hackman took the acting and how carefully he did the scripts.

But what is also clear is that he was careful in Hollywood traps.

Hackman, a double winner of Oscar, died with his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, and their dog at his house in Novi Mexico. The cause of death was not given, but the police said the situation was “suspicious” enough to deserve an investigation.

Officials said on Friday Evidence That Hackman was dead from February 17, 10 days before the couples were found.

Here in Los Angeles, Hackman’s face is everywhere on television newsletters and newspapers.

His death was anyone who spoke as the stars gathered for parties before the Oscar.

I was at one of these events on Thursday night, where American actor John C Reilly told me that he expects the Academy on Sunday to mark Hackman. “I don’t see how you could have an Oscar without mentioning as big as the one who passed.”

For Sonnenfeld and for Irish director John Moore – who directed Hackman in 2001 behind the enemy lines – this is Hackman’s way of solving the script his splendor. He would remove all the script notes on how his character should deliver his lines.

“Because he didn’t want any screenwriter to tell him that he should have felt at that moment,” Sonnenfeld said.

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

Moore remembers a similar incident from the first time he recorded with Hackman.

“He just sat silently there, pulled out the pages of the script, cut them, removed the external things like the description of the scene, and then glued them to empty pages,” he said.

He said Hackman told him, “Acting is my job, you do the rest.”

“He invested the fear of God in me,” Moore said, laughing.

“He basically said, ‘I don’t need anything, because I’m so good. You bring your a-ogro better, as I bring mine. “

Not just the superfluous studio notes bothered Hackman.

“He had that conflict in being this great actor, but he hated the tropics of what he needed to act in movies,” Sonnenfeld said.

“[He] He hated makeup. Putting a wardrobe. Wardrobe person after taking, taking a lip brush and rubbing their wardrobe. The makeup person recombined his hair as he talks to me, “he said.

“All such tumultuous hair and makeup and all those things, I think it drove him crazy.”

Neither did he often want to hang out after filming, Moore said.

“I would try to drink a drink with him after we shot and went to the minibar,” he said.

“He would have him, that was it. [Betsy] He would give him that look, and he would be to bed from him. And he was in great shape in the morning as a result. “

“It’s about acting,” Sonnenfeld added. “End of story. Get me out as quickly as possible.”

Hackman could be a “strenuous actor” he’s working with, Sonnenfeld said. “He didn’t suffer fools.”

In Get Shorty, Hackman played along with Travolt, who plays Miami Mobster sent to charge a debt.

“Gene was an impeccable actor, technically and artistically. So he came every day to set himself up knowing his lines,” Sonnenfeld said.

“John came to set himself not knowing his lines, he probably didn’t read the script the night before.”

This resulted in a showdown of the first day of recording.

Sonnenfeld remembers Travolt – which he describes as “charming but not aware” – asking Hackman what he did on weekends.

Hackman replied, “Nothing but learn the lines,” to which Travolta replied, “Well, this is the loss of a weekend,” according to Sonnenfeld.

As the recording of the recording, Hackman became “angry and angry” in his star without knowing his lines.

Sonnenfeld said he had let Hackman take out anger on him.

“The next 12 weeks he would yell at me whenever John didn’t know his lines,” he said.

“But he’s great in the movie. And I knew he had never been angry with me.”

Travolta is reportedly not the only one who rubbed the hackman in the wrong way.

He allegedly clashed with others, including director Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson.

Later, and maybe by accident, Hackman appointed one of his novels from Andersonville.

“Gene was really rough on Wes,” Bill Murray recalled, who starred with Hackman in the movie Hit 2001, in Interview with Associated Press.

“He was a tough nut, Gene Hackman. But he was really good.”

Moore, for his part, said he never felt Hackman was hard to work.

“He was patient and ruthless, flawlessly professional,” he said.

“My memories are like laughing and smiling and tells very funny jokes.”

Moore admitted that Hackman may have been irritated with anyone on the set that made their role bigger than it was.

“So I could see how ridiculous he could be toward the actors who were spider,” he said.

“But again it comes back to the point – he just wanted to make movies exceptional.”

Hackman withdrew from acting in 2004, and since then he has lived with his wife a peaceful life in Novi Mexico.

“I doubt one of the reasons he moved to Santa Fe, again, great outdoors and that is far from Hollywood how much you can get,” Sonnenfeld said.

Hackman gave a rare interview with Reuters in 2008, in which he was asked If he missed acting.

He replied, saying that the job for him was “very stressful.”

“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.”

But, he added, “I miss the real acting part, as I have done for almost 60 years.

“And I really loved it.”