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Dustin Hoffman Remembers Gene Hackman: ‘A Giant Among Actors’

Dustin Hoffman paid tribute to his friend and co-star Gene Hackman following the actor's death at 95.

And Gene was like Brando, in that he brought something unprecedented to our craft, something people didn’t immediately understand as genius: He was expelled from our school after three months for ‘not having talent.’ It was the first time they ever did that. In a statement, Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies added that “the bodies of Mr. Hackman and his wife were located in separate rooms” and that a cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Medical Investigator. Multiple actors and filmmakers have paid tribute to Hackman in the wake of his death, including Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, and Viola Davis.

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