L’8 novembre 1980, a poche ore dalla morte dell’attore Steve McQueen in una piccola clinica di Ciudad Juarez, Messico, Michael Seiler e Wayne Warga scrissero sul Los Angeles Times: “McQueen was one of the film industry’s biggest draws. Like Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood, he had that special quality of manliness that women found attractive and men admired. But he was different from the others. He seemed somehow less complicated than Newman, more rugged than Redford, less wooden than Eastwood”.