Gwyneth Paltrow mourned the death of her late friend and co-star Gene Hackman in a sweet tribute Friday on social media. 

The Oscar-winning actor and his wife were found ᴅᴇᴀᴅ in their Santa Fe, NM home on Wednesday and investigators are looking into the cause. 

On her Instagram page, Paltrow, 52, posted a still from 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums, in which she starred with Hackman, Luke Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Ben Stiller. 

The quirky comedy about a family headed by Hackman’s character Royal Tannenbaum, has become a cult classic over the past two decades.

Instead of words, the Shakespeare in Love star posted a broken heart emoji.

Many of her friends and fans, including Olivia Wilde and Lindsey Vonn made similar comments.

Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, honored her late co-star Gene Hackman in a sweet post Friday, sharing a pH๏τo from their 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums 

Instead of using words to describe her grief, the Oscar winner used a simple broken heart emoji, a move mirrored by others

‘Best movie of all time,’ wrote Amy Schumer. ‘He was perfect. So were you.’

‘Literally just rewatched RT for 100x time on Saturday’ wrote a fan. ‘You all are brilliant- yet gene hackman was the secret sauce ❤️❤️’

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‘I have so many great memories,’ Paltrow said in June 2021, after a special screening to celebrate the comedy’s 20th anniversary, USA Today reported. 

‘I really loved the scene of Gene and I in the ice cream parlor,’ she said.

‘Doing that was really like a partner highlight for me, to do that scene with him, even though he was a little intimidating. He was sweet to me and that was really special.’

Bill Murray, who starred an Paltrow’s husband in the comedy told the ᴀssociated Press ‘He was a tough nut, Gene Hackman. But he was really good.’

‘And he was really difficult, we can say it now, but he was a tough guy,’ the funnyman said.

‘Older, great actors do not give young directors much of a chance. They’re really rough on them, and Gene was really rough on [director] Wes [Anderson}. I used to kind of step in there and just try to defend my friend.’

‘I have so many great memories,’ Paltrow said in June 2021, after a special screening to celebrate the comedy’s 20th anniversary, USA Today reported. ‘Even though he was a little intimidating. He was sweet to me and that was really special’

‘I really loved the scene of Gene and I in the ice cream parlor,’ Paltrow  said. ‘Doing that was really like a partner highlight for me’

Hackman won two Oscars for playing tough guys on the screen, beginning with his Best Actor win for his role at a New York City Police detective in 1971’s The French Connection.

He collected a Best Supporting Actor award as a sheriff who enjoyed his power a little too much in 1992’s Unforgiven. 

It was a role he almost pᴀssed up. ‘Gene’s daughters didn’t like all the violent movies he was doing,’ writer David Webb Peoples told the New York Daily News at the time. ‘He was at a stage in his career where his family was more important than his work.

‘And God bless Gene; he listened to Clint [Eastwood] and together they produced something awesome.’