@filmhouse35: "I miss the acting. But the business is very stressful." He walked away and never came back. Gene Hackman made his last film in 2004 and disappeared. No farewell tour. Twenty years of interviewers trying to coax him back. He always said the same thing: loved the craft, hated the machine. Retreated to Santa Fe and wrote novels. Hollywood's most electric actor chose silence over spectacle. #FilmHouse35 #GeneHackman #Retirement #SantaFe #Cinema #Hollywood #InMemoriam

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