PART II

Movie Star Who Quit Hollywood Hints at Comeback

The actor said he may return to movies if the role is right.

Actor Gary Sinise has hinted he may end his Hollywood hiatus. The Forrest Gump star stepped away from movie roles in 2019 to care for his son McCanna, who was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare form of cancer of the spine. Tragically their son, who they knew as Mac, died in 2024. Talking to Fox News Digital, Sinise, 70 said his long-running TV role on CSI: NY role set him up to look after his family. “It’s all about timing, and it’s all about the project and the people that would be involved in it... I can kind of be selective about what I’m doing in life.” Sinise, 70, starred in Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 and won a Golden Globe in 1996 for his role in TV miniseries Truman. He founded The Gary Sinise Foundation in 2011 and raised over $300 million for wounded veterans, first responders and their families. “I’m not out there pounding the pavement right now,” he said of his priorities. “Occasionally doing a paid speech or paid narration or something that only takes a little bit of time, doesn’t take me away from home too long... I got five grandkids. We’re hoping for more. Leaving home for long periods of time is just not anything I want to do.”