Reclusive Gene Hackman, 93, looks fit in first sighting in years
nypost.comtelling The Post about his “checkered career of hits and misses.” Speaking on the 50th anniversary of “The French Connection” — the hit film for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor — the star stated: “The film certainly helped me in my career, and I am grateful for that.”The down-to-earth actor added that he wasn’t a fan of rewatching his own flicks and hadn’t seen the classic crime caper since 1971. “[I] haven’t seen the film since the first screening in a dark, tiny viewing room in a post-production company’s facility 50 years ago,” he told The Post at the time.
AdvertisementHackman — who previously resided in ritzy Montecito, California — has lived in Santa Fe since the 1980s. The actor is a budding architect and designer who has helped create more than 10 homes — including a New Mexico manse that was featured in Architectural Digest.
Since his retirement from Hollywood, the star has busied himself writing novels, including the 2013 police thriller “Pursuit.”Hackman is also an avid cyclist, a hobby he has maintained into his 90s, that keeps him looking trim and terrific.
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