One of my favorite actors. Very sad.. although if you were to watch some more recent interviews with him, you can see that many of the interviewers would have their facts wrong, and you could tell it kinda bothered him. It was the typical interviewer who was not fully aware of the details and facts of his career and they constantly mistook that he had done mostly movies related to martial arts, because it was the most info they could find on him in preparation for the interview.
Kinda like saying "I'm a huge fan... but I know absolutely nothing about your movies"
He also always seemed to feel rather uncomfortable or awkward in such interviews.
It could be, that he was in a depression, not content with where he had wound up in his career. I think he wanted to be more of an icon than he was.
But, no one but himself, will ever truly know what was going on inside. He was one of those (practically extinct) tough guys, who hid his deepest emotions very well.
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