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Wes Anderson said his system of paying the cast of "The Royal Tenenbaums" caused "friction" with Gene Hackman. He told the Sunday Times that Hackman "was very annoyed about the money."; Anderson ...
CANNES, France (AP) — Wes Anderson isn't driving the bus. Laurent is. That's the name of the driver who's bringing Anderson, and his bus, to the Cannes Film Festival.
"He didn't want to do the film anyway," added the director, who didn't stay in touch with the late actor. "I talked him into it — I just didn't go away." ...
Hackman died this year, aged 95, with Anderson's offbeat tale, in which he played the titular patriarch of a family of former child prodigies, one of the last he made before retiring from acting.
Wes Anderson talks ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ Gene Hackman and his Cannes bus With remarkable regularity, Anderson has been crafting movies uniquely his own since his 1996 debut, “Bottle ...
Director Wes Anderson poses for portrait photographs for the film 'The Phoenician Scheme' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2025.