Warren Beatty of the film, he credited Hackman with giving the "most authentic performance in the movie, so textured and so moving," recalls Dunaway. He was impressed with Gene Wilder after seeing him in a play and didn't even need him to audition, in what became Wilder's screen debut. And Beatty had already known Pollard: "Michael J. Pollard was one of my oldest friends," Beatty said. "I'd known him forever; I met him the day I got my first television show. We did a play together on Broadway." "Bonnie and Clyde" went on to be a critical and commercial success, despite the
Faye Dunaway his life "The Kid Stays in the Picture". In 2017, Dunaway appeared in her first feature film in eight years with the release of "The Bye Bye Man", a horror-thriller that proved to be a commercial success, despite negative reviews, and earned her positive notices. Dunaway then accepted a small role in "The Case for Christ", a Christian drama based on the 1998 book of the same name by Lee Strobel, as she wanted to do a faith film, "I became aware of this genre maybe a year or two ago and I told my agent to look out for