{"id":5484,"date":"2009-09-15T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:46:02","slug":"hoffman-talks-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/15\/hoffman-talks-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman Talks Regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dustinhoffman\"<\/a>Dustin Hoffman gave a rare interview today when he called in to Howard Stern\u2019s Sirius\/XM Satellite Radio show yesterday morning. The fifteen minute conversation ranged from Hoffman\u2019s early career when he shared an New York City apartment with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall to New York state politics and former Governor Eliot Spitzer.<\/p>\n

Hoffman called in at the behest of his Los Angeles assistant and driver Adam Fox, as part of a contest the Stern Show is having to see who the biggest celebrity a listener could get to call in.<\/p>\n

As Stern quizzed Hoffman on his various films, the topic turned to roles that that Hoffman had a chance to play, but turned down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was twice I could have worked with Bergman,\u201d Hoffman stated. He passed on the first opportunity in order to be close to his pregnant wife. He let the second opportunity pass by when he \u201cwasn\u2019t feeling the script.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was once I could have worked with Felini,\u201d added Hoffman, explaining that he thought that the Italian director\u2019s habit of filming without sound recording only to record the dialogue later would harm his performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are all terrible rationalizations,\u201d Hoffman admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteven Spielberg is a good friend,\u201d Hoffman continued. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with him once [on Hook<\/strong>], but he likes to remind me that I\u2019ve turned him down four times.\u201d After explaining that he had turned down roles in Spielberg\u2019s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind<\/strong> and Schindler\u2019s List<\/strong>, Hoffman joked that \u201cI\u2019m working through it in therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

While not a fan, Hoffman told Stern that he first heard of him from director Barry Sonnenfeld while working together on Rain Man<\/strong>. Stern used the opportunity to talk about the project<\/a> he had almost collaborated with Sonnenfeld on.<\/p>\n

Stern also took the time to ask Hoffman about an incident that he was involved in that provided much discussion on the show at the time it happened- Lily Tomlin\u2019s much publicized eruption on the set of David O. Russell\u2019s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take her defense and the director\u2019s,\u201d Hoffman explained. \u201cThe fight was really over artistic principals. My viewpoint on that is that if YouTube had been around as long as my career, you\u2019d know that that was the norm. It happens at least once on a set.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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