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Gene Hackman Trivia
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- As roommates, Dustin Hoffman and Hackman would often go to the apartment rooftop and play the drums. Hoffman played the bongo drums while Hackman played the conga drums. They did it out of their love for Marlon Brando, who they had heard played music in clubs. They wanted to be like Brando and were big fans of his.
- Was in the Marine Corps. Toured in China. Based his role in The Conversation (1974) on one of his uncles and a fellow marine he had known well. He characterized the marine as someone "who probably became a serial killer."
- Turned down the lead role of in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) because he was in a troubled marriage and could not spend 16 weeks outside of Los Angeles on location shooting.
- He lied about his age to join the Marines at 16 but left as soon as his initial 3 year tour was complete.
- As a young man, Hackman attended a showing of the movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and was impressed by the performance of Marlon Brando due to his naturalism and the fact that he didn't look like what a movie star typically looked like in the 1950s. After exiting the theater, he told his father that he wanted to be an actor.
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