成人快手

Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman became friends while trying to make it as actors in 60s New York. The duo team up for the first time on screen with Runaway Jury, an adaptation of the John Grisham bestseller. The film completes a hattrick of Grisham adaptations for California-born Hackman, following The Firm and The Chamber.

This is the third time you've played a villain in a John Grisham movie. What's the connection for you?

It just worked out that way. I wasn't searching for that. It's just one of those things.

You play despicable so well. Is that the real you coming out?

Well, it's part of me [laughs]. What we always try to do is use various things in our personalities that we may not find attractive, but we find them useful.

You've said that you have as much fear these days as you did in acting class so long ago. Is that an overstatement?

No, I still, when I'm getting ready to do a scene, I have a kind of opening night jitters or whatever, but I like that. That's part of the reason that I'm still in the business. There's something at stake, you're not just showing up, you're not a day player, you're not just trying to make a living. The thrill of that is that there's nothing like it, absolutely nothing like it.

How do you approach a character like this after doing it so many times before?

I always try to find something in these bad guys that's human that makes them even more diabolical. If you see someone that's all bad, you kind of just put them in the monster category, but if you see someone who is really bad, but is also a father and a grandfather and all of that, that's even worse, I think.

Has success changed you?

I don't think that it's changed me as an actor. It's changed me maybe as a person. There are a variety of different things that money brings or whatever, but hopefully it hasn't changed me as an actor.

How good a roommate was Dustin Hoffman back in the 60s?

He was the worst. We had to hose the rooms down and sweep them out.