Dustin Hoffman SLAPPED Meryl Streep⁉️😱 

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎯 excellent reference!

​@@rhyfedduYes I know that reference 😂

Exactly. Precisely the same situation. Her glittering eyes and that smiling acceptance while she reports he denies it ever happened is a pretty glorious, if idealized, picture of health and balance. And on television. Of course it sounds good to be able to shine a light on someone’s questionable action, and more importantly, their denial of it- but she has to be at ease with the possibility of being disbelieved by the audience in order to do so in such a humane way. Anyway. Love Meryl, and appreciate your well-placed spot-on reference here. The ego on an actor to think he’s in a position to make that kind of decision. The mind reels

Well, his continued denial it happened doesn't bode well...

@@rhyfeddu Robert Pattinson once said, "They consider themselves method actors when they act like assholes on set. Never when they are too nice with people".

@@zeusros Oh. Good point!

@@zeusros man, those interviews about tootsie are a harder second watch than first, and they just get worse on subsequent viewings. If you don’t let them sink in too much, it sounds like he got some insight into the experience of older women and really let it change his worldview. If you break it down though, he says he *completely ignored* and *never made eye contact with* all women he wasn’t sexually attracted to, and then he implies that’s the standard issue male setting- which is complicated footwork to avoid taking any responsibility for the way he’s just admitted he organized his world for his entire adult life to that point- and then he treats his realization (…) that older women “are human beings” as if it’s a spiritual conversion, rather than a weird lack of empathy and connection he never should’ve spoken out loud about, much less expected praise for. I always liked him fine, and initially loved one of those interviews. Took a minute to realize what it really was - I relate him to the well-written characters I’ve seen him play over the years. And he still has the baby face, to boot. Anyway he’s the worst

This is so underrated. Seriously. Just try acting. The method bs is just an excuse for creative white men to abuse their colleagues.

I agree with Lawrence Olivier. I just don't like Hoffman as an actor. I feel the same way about Billy Chrystal. I'm surprised they are famous. 🥱

I agree. Marathon Man is a terrific film.

The source of that story, you dummies, is Dustin Hoffman himself, and Olivier said it in an offhand, joking way, the two actors got along great. Jesus Christ, the way people glom on to these stories like priggish little housewives, gossiping like little bi*ches.

It's called "The Napoleon Bonaparte Syndrome." A little man being a bully. ☺️

@@molly5292 Napoleon wasn’t small…

Were you there?

@@dannytello89 Obviously no, but I know how to read a history book which is apparently not your case.

@@sulivanboris784 I must apologise my question wasn’t directed at you

Lol "in her direction"

At the end of the restaurant scene, he is agitated, gets up and forcefully knocks a glass of wine to his left, against the wall. See "Kramer vs. Kramer (4/8) Movie CLIP - I Want My Son (1979)" or "Dustin Hoffman's Moment of Improvisation That Shocked Meryl Streep" for a shorter version.

@@borbetomagus 🙁

Not acceptable by who? You? Or MStreep? You sound like you're speaking to a child, "that is unacceptable". They were adults creating art, do you know how to do that at their level? Do you know what it takes to do that?

@@counterflow5719 M Streep, who gave him the right to hit her very hard across the face. She was mad about it, as she should be!

@@counterflow5719Exactly. These people are getting paid millions to get the best possible performances. Sacrifices have to be made sometimes lol.

@nancyjohnson8854 Give me the money she made from that movie and I'll take the hit. Boo-effing-hoo.

​​@@nancyjohnson8854Yeah, some actors would have whacked him back and told him that they were just getting it out of their system before the actual take. It shows the measure of her professionalism to handle it in that way. She could have gone all diva about it.

So did I. W/ my dad in the theater. It was his weekend. Haha.

For me, it was. after child protective services was finally forced to get involved.@@deniserossiter1059

@@DustinPlatt one of the more grounded comments I’ve ever seen. People with more common names are also miserable at those keychain stands, if it helps. You’ll make it your own

Well said.

She didn't need Hoffman to reach Oscar winning standards. He was a brutal jerk and doesn't deserve any "thank you"

@@lilyop701 You're welcome. 👍

@@PhantomFilmAustralia lol 😆. She had to navigate back to good acting, away from closing up and shutting down, as a lesser actor and many very seasoned actors would’ve done. Slapping her impeded the process. It didn’t create her response, it set up an odd, egomaniacal, chaotic barrier to her response. She had the chops, the muscle memory and discipline, to dismantle enough of it to be present and open in the scene. He added unnecessary strain. Not the narrative strain that leads to complexity and deeper experiences of emotion. The much more boring, irritating strain of having no sense of your scene partner’s psychological stability, and the unavoidable awareness that he believes this entire process- if it isn’t explicitly *about* him- does at least hinge around him. Also he finds himself insightful, and daring, and isn’t going to worry about what effect his delusions have on the film, much less their effect on anyone present. It’s the behavior of a buffoon. So is lying about it. He’s not a genius who knew what he was doing, he’s just a guy who was bleedingly desperate to be important and famous and surprising and clever so his parents would love him finally or whatever - point is, nothing to do with acting, nothing to do with film. Decisive action is not impressive on its own. If you’d replaced the toddler on set with a grown man, she might not’ve needed the whole 10 minutes. Oscar in 5 to 7. Who knows. I love this film exactly as it is, but the next level idiocy of crediting her performance to his inability to read what room he’s in does have me recasting him in my head for fun. It’s petty dominance dressed up as toughness. She recovered very well. And he knows it too - best believe if he thought he created the emotion she puts across on film in that scene, he would’ve been bragging about it all this time, rather than lying about it like the embarrassing moment of ignorance it was.

What is ?

@@ddominguez2889 thank god it’s on record

@@BuddyGorey I totally agree. It is always good to thank God. Have a blessed day.

@@ddominguez2889 🥴

Any actor worth his beans wouldn't need to resort to abuse...

@@KP-mb9jx Not true. Actors lose weight gain weight take steroids etc. To get the best performance possible. Why should THIS be any different?

Art? It's acting, make believe.... If he has to abuse her to get a reaction then where is the "ART"?

I agree. Come at us.

Yeah - all those awards Dustin has and genuine admiration of his peers.

I must say, I like how this is going

But he'll never grow an inch taller...

No need...Olivier came for you long ago...he famously called Dustin Hoffman 'the best mime in history'...lol...

WTF? Are you a misogynist? It's the other way around dear fella...

@@marksias6764 great statement, very subjective, feels realistic, and I bet you’ve had real life experiences with women

@@marksias6764 great statement, very subjective, feels realistic, and I bet you’ve had real life experiences with women

@@huckleberry5085?? You lose yours? You think it takes a special pair of huevos to hit a woman who’s not expecting it? Maybe not coming off the way you intended it Could be that’s exactly as you intended it to sound. Like it takes a real man to slap ice cream out of a baby’s hand. You gotta nut up and smack somebody smaller than you, and make sure you take her by surprise. That’ll show her who’s boss. Won’t make you look like a pussy who can’t even fight a woman fair, definitely not. Anyway if that’s how you meant it then look out everybody we got a big man comin through over here make some room

He hasn't sued her for defamation of character, so...

Essa atriz é um espetáculo e linda!!!

@@guyspooner4580 you could just look at her suddenly reddened face in the scene, if you’re interested in the film. Could be more fun to assume every woman both near and far is manipulating you. You’d never run out of things to do to protect yourself, and it could temper the effects of their evil sexual temptations. Amber Heard can be the bathwater and Meryl Streep can be the baby. She has no history of abusing any of her personal relations. She’s a human being, not a saint, but really you went right to amber heard? What motivation, even in a villain fantasy, would she have to come after Dustin Hoffman? She has no history of doing so with any of her other many costars. She’s been more successful by any measure. Why? Why is it easier for you to believe Meryl Streep is basically Amber Heard than it is to believe Dustin Hoffman was an asshole in his 20s and still can’t man up to it

Surely sarcasm

@@thenozar7603 this comment section is a fever dream at a state fair