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Real reason Gene Hackman quit Hollywood during peak of his career for reclusive life in New Mexico
Fans of the late actor Gene Hackman have been searching for answers after he and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under mysterious circumstances.
The actor, who died at 95, had lived a reclusive life in recent years after quietly retiring from acting after filming the 2004 satire Welcome To Mooseport. Although fans have speculated for years that the film's box-office bomb status might have contributed to his abandonment of Hollywood, Hackman himself explained why he quit acting in a recently resurfaced interview. Following Gene Hackman's shock death under mysterious circumstances at his home in Santa Fe, a resurfaced interview is shedding light on why he quit Hollywood and settled in New Mexico; seen in 2003
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