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 in 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.

While speaking to Empire in 2009, several years into his retirement, Hackman revealed that it was his heart keeping him from getting back in front of the camera.

‘The straw that broke the camel’s back was actually a stress test that I took in New York,’ Hackman explained. ‘The doctor advised me that my heart wasn’t in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress.’

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

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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