Kevin Costner chokes up over Gene Hackman in resurfaced clip: ‘My favorite actor’
An untouchable legacy.
An interview in which Kevin Costner recalled an emotional exchange with Gene Hackman that left him choked up resurfaced Thursday after news of the “French Connection” star’s mysterious death broke.
Hackman, 95, his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, 65, and one of their three dogs were found dead at their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home on Wednesday. The deaths are still under investigation by local police, but according to the sheriff of Santa Fe County, Hackman may have been dead for over a weekbefore the couple’s bodies were discovered by a maintenance worker.
