This is how Clint Eastwood convinced actor Gene Hackman to accept the antagonist role in the acclaimed Unforgiven of 1992, and it was not easy.
One of the best films that Clint Eastwood has directed and starred in has been Unforgivenreleased in 1992, which received nine Oscar nominations, winning four for best film, best director, and best supporting actor, among others.
The best director went to Clint Eastwoodbut the best supporting actor went to Gene Hackman, a Hackman who was not at all sure about participating in this film at first.
In fact, Hackman himself when he initially read the script for Unforgiven, He turned down the role outright because of its extreme brutality.
It should be remembered that Hackman is an advocate of the fight against gun violence and considered Unforgiven to be a very violent film.
However, Eastwood thought Gene Hackman was the perfect antagonist for the film, and he had to go to great lengths to convince him in the end.
Basically what Clint Eastwood did is trying to make Hackman really understand the meaning of the scriptsince he was imagining a different movie.
In fact, Gene Hackman commented in an interview a few years ago that he was initially worried about the violence in the film, until Eastwood revealed his real intentions.
“That’s the opposite of the movie I want to make. Unforgiven is not going to be about the heroism of gunslingers, I want to show the ignominious, dark side of the Wild West. The brutality of that time and place. I think we could do something that shows that side of gun violence.”
In an interview in 2003, Hackman himself noted that “there should be some kind of control over how people acquire guns and that sort of thing. There are too many guns out there.”
Hackman uses his influence and fame to make people think twice about purchasing a firearm.
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