 What was it like being on the set with Gene Hackman? Well, Gene, you know, people ask all the time, you know, who's the best actor, who's the biggest star, who's the blah, blah, blah. The line's long for the great actors I've been able to work with, it really is. But I would say probably Gene was the best actor that I'd ever worked with. When this scene came up, we had been doing every scene to that point around a desk, just like this. Every scene, I finally said to the director, I said, look, I don't,