Gary Sinise He began acting in the late 1970s, but his role in Forrest Gump (1994) earned him such glowing reviews that it helped revitalize his career. From that moment on, his face began to appear more frequently on the big screen, and he shone in films such as Apollo 13 (1995), The rescue (1996), snake eyes (1998), Unexpected miracles (1999), Mission to Mars (2000), Impostor (2001), The skin of desire (2003), dangerous obsession (2004), wild friends (2006), Captain America and the Winter Soldier (2014) y As long as you are with me (2020). Also, in television series such as Frasier, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, criminal minds and 13 Reasons Why. However, after the Covid pandemic, nothing more was heard about him. This week, the 69-year-old interpreter spoke for the first time about the reasons that led him to leave Hollywood.
The actor gave an interview to Fox News in which he revealed that in 2019, months before the pandemic was declared, his family was going through their own nightmare. “We were in the fight against cancer during that time,” he noted. And he explained: “It was not possible for me to travel away from them because of what we were going through: my wife [Moira Harris] “She had been diagnosed with breast cancer and my son was diagnosed with a very rare cancer two months apart.”
In a previous interview, Sinise had already spoken about the situation of his son McCanna Anthony Sinise was diagnosed with a “very rare cancer” known as chordoma, which forms in the spine or at the base of the skull. It is now known that that diagnosis came just months after Harris, 70, received a diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer.
“The fight against cancer for Mac was especially difficult, because he was fighting something that has no cure. So finding medicine and doctors and trying to find someone who could do something for him became a full-time job,” he added. And he recalled: “In addition, as time went by, the cancer made him more and more incapacitated and he needed more and more care.”
However, those were not the only situations the actor had to deal with at the time. “My father had just suffered a stroke and I had to take care of my mother, who was alone at the time. I had my hands really full. It was a really very difficult moment,” he recalled.
The actor said that his wife finally went into remission and was cancer-free, but noted that it was “difficult” to watch his son go through his illness “until he finally couldn’t fight it anymore.” His son died at the age of 33 on January 5. At the time, alongside a photo of her son on social media, she wrote: “We are heartbroken and have been handling the situation as best we can. As parents, it is very difficult to lose a child. My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered a similar loss and to anyone who has lost a loved one. “We have all experienced it in some way.”
Sinise indicated in the recent interview that his son “was happy at the end of his life,” and explained: “Mac had accomplished something he had set out to do, which was to record all the music he had composed in recent years and release an album complete with her. And it gave me great joy to see him enjoy those moments.”
