Kevin Costnerthe famous actor starring in such memorable films as ‘Dancing with Wolves’, ‘The bodyguard’ o ‘JFK‘ -along with other resounding failures such as ‘Waterworld’ or ‘Wyatt Earp’-, he has worked alongside other great actors throughout his career, such as Dennis Hopper en ‘Waterworld’, Sean Connery y Robert De Niro in ‘The Untouchables by Eliott Ness’ or Susan Sarandon y Tim Robbins in ‘The Durham Buffaloes’, including the famous singer Whitney Houston in ‘The Bodyguard’. Although guard a special memory for an actor with whom he coincided in ‘No hay salida’: Gene Hackman.
The best actor Kevin Costner has ever worked with
And Kevin Costner agreed with Gene Hackman in ‘There is no way out’a thriller directed by Roger Donaldson in 1987 in which he also acted Sean Young y Will Patton. It is a film that is quite forgotten today and was based on the film ‘The Big Clock‘ from 1947 and in the novel of the same name. Well, Costner has a very special memory of his experience as an actor alongside Hackman, whom he considers the best i’ve ever worked with thanks to his methods on the set.
“The list of great actors I have been able to work with is very long, but I would say that Gene Hackman is probably the best actor I’ve ever worked with.“, said Kevin Costner himself a few years ago in an interview The Rich Eisen Show and that you can see above these lines. He even remembers several anecdotes with him during filming, among which is a face to face encounter that you will always remember:
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Kevin Costner with Gene Hackman in ‘No Way Out’ from 1987
“He looked at me and said, ‘When I saw you fighting for what you wanted today, I remembered how I felt when I was acting. What you did was good‘And he got in his car and drove away,” Costner explained about Hackman’s reaction after filming a scene in which Costner ‘invited’ Hackman to improvise in the director’s expectation.
