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mysterious death of gene hackman, the acting giant. the star of classics like the french connection. >> all right, nobody move. put your hands in the air. superman is kryptonite. >> superman. i spared no expense to make you feel right at home. >> and the birdcage. >> this guy could do anything and everything. and he made it look easy. >> found on the floor of his own home, along with his wife. after security guard called 911. >> okay. are they moving at all? no. >> they're not moving. >> investigators racing to piece together the bizarre circumstances as authorities call the deaths suspicious. plus. >> to your left. >> kate hudson. >> we inspire the music. we're here because of the music. >> the star of almost famous and how to lose a guy in ten days. >> you look pretty good too, sparky. >> taking on a new role as girl boss in running point. >> i have a team to run. so if you'll excuse me. wait. this is my office. you get out. >> what the member of hollywood

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george. >> lara. ginger. >> miss. robin. >> good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. shockwaves around the world at the mysterious death of gene hackman. the legendary actor found in his home, along with the bodies of his wife, betsy, and one of their dogs. tributes pouring in from far and wide as friends and fans remember. the actor, thought to be one of the crafts most gifted. while investigators try to make sense of what they encountered at the scene. here's abc's mola lenghi. >> first few words that come to my mind when i think of gene hackman. stoic presence. and then versatile. this guy could do anything and everything. and he made it look easy. >> he was a legendary leading man, a versatile actor, starring in blockbusters like crimson tide, >> terminate, launch, all missiles. >> and mississippi burning.

playing a dogged fbi agent investigating the murders of three civil rights activists. >> you got a stupid smile, you know that, pal? >> but at age 95, gene hackman found dead alongside his 65 year old wife, classic pianist betsy arakawa, and one of their dogs at their home in a gated community in santa fe, new mexico. >> all i can say is they have been deceased for quite a while. >> authorities now investigating their deaths as suspicious. >> what is the emergency? >> a security guard calling 911 yesterday after a worker at the hackman property noticed the home's door was ajar. >> are they breathing? >> i have no idea. i'm not inside the house. it's closed. it's locked. i can't go in. but i see them. laying down on the floor from the window. >> okay. are they moving at all? >> no, they're not moving. just send somebody up here really quick. >> a search warrant affidavit revealing new information. >> there was no indication of a struggle. there was no

indication of anything that was missing from the home or disturbed. you know, that would be indication that there was a crime that had occurred. >> police say that they don't see any signs of foul play, but they don't know what this was. so they have to treat this as if there is a potential, that it was a crime, that there is a potential that that there was foul play. >> hackman's daughters and granddaughter releasing a statement saying he was loved and admired by millions around the world for his brilliant acting career. but to us, he was always just dad and grandpa. we will miss him sorely and are devastated by the loss. hackman was one of the titans of american cinema. speaking to diane sawyer in 1990 about the magic of acting. >> i desperately want to be an actor from the time i was ten years old, but i was so. i was so shy and so intimidated by the process. >> what was the thing you wanted in acting? >> i suppose to be transported to somehow or another to, to play these people who seem to

have this great life for me. i suppose the most enjoyable thing i do is, is when i, when i can make a scene work, when i feel i've contributed to another actor and where it's electric and where you've satisfied yourself that that that you have done everything you can to make that come alive. that to me, is. heaven. i suppose. >> gene hackman really feels like one of those actors of the greatest generation. we think of that as like one of the greatest decades of cinema, and he was a huge part of that. it was so interesting to see him transcend into multiple decades. >> he first made a name for himself in bonnie and clyde as clyde's wily brother, buck. >> what? we're going to have ourselves a time boy. >> his illustrious acting career spanning over five decades, starting on the stage and

transitioning his versatile performances in film and tv, earning him a host of awards including two academy awards. and his first win coming for his portrayal of jimmy popeye doyle in 1971, the french connection. >> i don't buy that, irv. the stuff is in that car. >> i'll see you in hell, william munny. >> in two decades later, he would take home the oscar for best supporting actor for unforgiven. yeah. >> i told you. >> hackman was good at playing evil. he did so as superman's arch nemesis, lex luthor, in three films. >> you were great in your day, superman. >> sharing this on gma from the set of superman four. >> you have a little kids come up to you on the street and say you're the evil guy, and that's kind of fun. >> he was a mainstay in the 80s and 90s with movies like enemy of the state with will smith, as they worked together to prove smith's character's innocence. >> you're either incredibly

smart or incredibly stupid. >> and he would captivate a younger generation in wes anderson's the royal tenenbaums. but many will remember him as the coach who always knew how to get the best out of his team, rallying his high school basketball players in hoosiers. >> if you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be, i don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. in my book, we're going to be winners. >> he was both equal, like this cuddly teddy bear, but also sinister at the same time. he was the chameleon of an actor that we don't get very often. he doesn't phone it in. he gives his all every single time. >> hackman stepped back from hollywood in his later years, later revealing he retired because of heart issues. he moved to santa fe, new mexico to spend time in nature and work on his other passion writing novels. talking about his quieter life outside hollywood on cbs sunday morning. >> almost without exception, every time i walk this path, i

think about people who are here, you know, 200 years ago. >> hackman and his wife were found inside the santa fe home they loved so much. deputies finding the 95 year old on the ground near the kitchen area. one observing a pair of sunglasses located near the left of his body, leading him to believe the male individual has suddenly fallen. the bodies showed signs of decomposition, indicating they had been dead for some time. >> there was no indication of a struggle. there was no indication of anything that was missing from the home or disturbed. >> they immediately, in a bathroom in the home, found hackman's wife, betsy arakawa, that she was down inside the bathroom. there were pills that were strewn about. there was a prescription medication bottle that was near her. >> one of the couple's dogs, a german shepherd, found dead about 10 to 15ft from arakawa in a closet of the bathroom. the couple's two other dogs found

alive on the property. >> i think there was a dog door where they had access to come in and out of the house. the other dog didn't. he was in a kennel or a crate. it's concerning that everyone in the house, including the dog, is deceased. >> spread my wings. >> and thou things. >> tributes from other actors pouring in from around the world, including hank azaria, who costarred with him in the 1996 comedy the birdcage. writing on instagram, it was an honor and an education working with gene hackman. sending all my love to his family and friends. gwyneth paltrow, who played hackman's daughter in the royal tenenbaums. simply posting a photo of them together from the movie with a broken heart emoji. and fellow acting great clint eastwood remembering his dear friend. there was no finer actor than gene. intense and instinctive. never a false note. >> art is the only language that is universal in this world. it's the only language that we all

speak. art transcends the borders and walls of us all. and when people come out and are grateful for your contribution to that language, it shows a job well done. >> and it was a language hackman spoke so well in 2003. at 72 years old, hackman was honored with the cecil b demille lifetime achievement at the golden globes. >> i never wanted to be anything but an actor. george scott had a line in patton that i think is appropriate. god help me, i love it, i truly do. >> a life well lived. our thanks to mola. when we come back. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> kate hudson brought the magic to her breakout role in almost famous. how the actress and now singer says she's living life on

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>> you look pretty good too, sparky. >> now she's the star of the netflix comedy series running point. welcome to nightline, kate. >> thank you. >> well, first of all, you're at the top of your game, which i love. decades into your career. i mean, you've gone from rom com darling to fashion it girl to fashion mogul. thank you very much. i mean, you make having it all look easy, but clearly it's not. >> nothing worth having is ever really, i think, easy. but i love what i do, and i got so lucky with people that really were cheerleaders for me, and especially sort of the foundation of my acting career, like early on, just got to work with so many great directors and people. so it kind of built the foundation for all these other things to come. >> that's awesome. and i know you're having a blast doing this series where you play isla gordon, and she's a former party girl who is trying to prove herself as the president of an

la basketball franchise. >> yes. >> let's take a look. >> i work in a family business. >> the greatest basketball franchise in the history. >> of the game, the los angeles waves. >> this is. >> the story of the family that runs it. >> isla, i am making. >> you the president of the waves. >> when i was a little girl, daddy never believed in me. and i started to doubt myself. >> i need you to stop because i don't care about any of that. you are the president. >> of the waves. this is shocking. but on behalf of all women, don't ever make a mistake. looks bad for all of us. >> it's so good. it's laugh out loud funny. and we talked about. and we talked about how mindy kaling is one of the eps. >> she's a writer creator and she's amazing. she put together the most phenomenal writing team and amazing cast. and really, it's jeanie buss, the president of the lakers. sort of. it's loosely based on her life being the first female president of, you know, a professional basketball team. but it's not

about basketball. it's about the family dynamic and this very dysfunctional family. and being the only girl and a family of boys. >> it's also about a woman in a male dominated industry. and that line about like, don't mess up on behalf of all women. >> right. yeah. yeah, we can all laugh at that because we've kind of. yeah. well it's true. >> and the and the nepo baby of it. all right. i mean, because your parents are very illustrious. you are far from a nepo baby, but did you draw on any of your personal experiences? >> i mean, a franchise business family is very different than what i grew up in, you know, for me, when you're a family of artists and storytellers, it's a very different thing. i mean, to me, it's interesting that nepo baby became a thing because nepotism is really more, i think about people who have businesses, and their families are quite like real, like wealth, and they kind of carry on that family legacy like that.

whereas art, you know, people are going to like it or they're not going to like it. >> and either you're talented or you're not. >> well, yeah. or, you know, or it's art is just subjective and but but with jeanie and her, that legacy that you have this enormous franchise that your family built and that you're maintaining and, and carrying on and hopefully growing is there's so much pressure in that. >> i have to tell you, my sons are huge fabletics fans. >> oh, i love it. >> and you are a founder of that company. and tell me, like you're also a working mom of three. how do you maintain all of the balls that you have in the air? >> so many balls. a lot of great people that surround me and help me, whether it be at home, my partner, i have an amazing nanny that's been with me since my 21 year old son was two months old. she's like helped me through everything. she's been my i call her my real partner. she's been through all of it. that's awesome. >> i love hats off to caregivers. yeah. your costar, brenda song is also a working

mom. and i read that. she said you gave her advice as a working mom. >> she has a really little one. and when we were filming, it's that pull you get when you're working and you really want to be working, but you're, you know, you also want to be at home with your kids and you feel that guilt, like, i'm really having a great time doing this. does that mean i'm a bad mom? and i think women go through this all the time. and just to have friends to be able to talk it out with. >> i know that you recently put out music, which i love, and you were quoted as saying because you didn't do it before because you were insecure. how did you know? having a life adjacent to music through your three real life partners? >> yeah. >> change that and make you have the courage to be like, i'm going to sing now, right? >> oh, for. >> me, with music, it was so vulnerable. it's my it's my most, like, purest art. it's my writing. it's my music. it's my

heart. it's like you're, like, putting everything out there. and i think if i did that when i wasn't ready for that when i was younger, it would have destroyed me to get the amount of criticism that you do get when you enter into the public eye. and so i was terrified of it, and i just i hated it so much because i don't like being afraid of things. i fear fear makes me angry. but in covid, i it was one of those things where i was like, well, are we all going to go? i mean, we are all going to go, but like, is this it? and if this was it, am i, am i content with the creative, my creative output and what i put in the world? and the answer was no, because i felt like i wasn't really being the most honest version of myself. >> well, everyone should check out your music because it's really fabulous and it just shows you're at the top of your game in every way. >> that's so sweet. >> thanks so much for joining us. thank you for having me. >> our thanks to juju. running point is streaming now on

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trip to space with my nightline co-anchor juju chang just months ago. >> i'm really excited about it. and of course, a little nervous. but when i think of explorers, right, i think of men like magellan, jacques cousteau, neil armstrong, and women are explorers as well. >> this is the first all female crew since valentina tereshkova solo flight in 1963. katy perry says she hopes her journey encourages her daughter and others to reach for the stars. and that's nightline for this evening. and catch our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here, same time tomorrow. thanks for the company, america. good night. >> abc's david muir, the most watched newscast in america. more americans watch world news tonight with david muir than any other newscast. a 12 year old girl fighting for her life. stabbed 19 times. her two so-called friends accused of the