@currentyashar: There’s something very profound about this…Gene Hackman is over 70 years old here—wealthy, famous, with every award an actor could want. How many macho characters has he played? Some might not expect him to be so fragile about something that happened decades ago. And yet, he still gets choked up when talking about his father abandoning him and his family when he was just 13. Because the truth is, parental abandonment doesn’t feel like something that happened in the past. It feels painfully present—no matter how much time has passed. It’s a reminder that success and external achievements can’t heal the pain a parent can cause. #bravo #actor #genehackman