At 68, still the most magnetic person in a Will Smith thriller. Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State, 1998. Playing a rogue NSA operative helping Will Smith survive government surveillance. Hackman was 68 years old and still the most compelling thing on screen in a cast full of younger, flashier actors. Tony Scott directed it as a paranoia thriller, and Hackman brought the same energy he'd had in The Conversation 24 years earlier — the same distrust of power, the same refusal to be anyone's pawn.
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At 68, still the most magnetic person in a Will Smith thriller. Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State, 1998. Playing a rogue NSA operative helping Will Smith survive government surveillance. Hackman was 68 years old and still the most compelling thing on screen in a cast full of younger, flashier actors. Tony Scott directed it as a paranoia thriller, and Hackman brought the same energy he'd had in The Conversation 24 years earlier — the same distrust of power, the same refusal to be anyone's pawn.
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