AS /Movie Jeremy Smith argued before, Ein Hackman was the best actor ever. With Hackman's death at 95 On February 26, the world is busy with remembering man and His best moviesAll of which Hackman's excellent roles are so defined by the presence of the actor that it would be very difficult to predict someone else to play their characters.

If you asked Hackman himself, he was not always best suited for the roles he remembers. In fact, the actor went so far that he thought his probably most famous role, Jimi "Popeye" Doyle in the "French relationship" (1971), was not very good for him. Here's how he described this something surprising view of an interview with An amateur cigarette:

"When we first started, I was in front ofNot sure about himself, because (Doyle) had to be pretty ruthless. In the early parts of the recording, I just didn't. When we filmed a scene with a drug picher chasing down the street in the first stage of the film, I wasn't very good; It was just a kind of weak. And I went to (director William Fridkin) and said, "I don't know if I can do it or not." This was like the first or second day of the shoot, and he would have been in great trouble if, after he went to climb for me, I couldn't get the job done. And he said, "We have been left aside for now and we will continue on and we may be able to reshape the scene later." And it happened. "

Ein Hackman was one of the best heavy actors in the world, if not the biggest. As such, it is strange to discover that it was difficult for him to get into thinking of his "French relationship" in the beginning, but then again, everyone should start somewhere. In addition, it seems that some of the initial topics of the actor "French relationship" had to do with the way he was thrown. As he said, he ended up in the film as a kind of compromise choice, which had only enough recognition for the name for the studio to accept, but who was also enough for a fresh face for William Friedkin to stamp for approval. As Hackman told the cigarette affidiado:

"'The French Connection' was just a lucky break for me. The study wanted a star in the film and the director, Billy Friedkin, wanted an unknown. Done some films, I had been nominated for 'bonnie and clyde' a couple of year before, and I still was knowing to the public very well. For kind to prepare with me in many ways. "

Of course, history was in a hurry to prove that Friedkin's confidence in Hackman was justified because the actor's nerves were unjustified. The "French relationship" was a complete success and remains loved by critics and audiences. As everyone who has seen the film knows, Hackman's work as Popeye Doyle fastens the entire great movie, and in 1972 he saved the best actor in the leading role of an Oscar for his work.