They teeeeeeechnically did work together again… in Series Of Unfortunate Events she played Aunt Josephine while he played the critic that was only shown in the wedding scene.
@@alifurqan1977so that entitles him to slap her??? SHE won the Oscar and it wasn't the only one. I have always admired his acting, but he had absolutely NO RIGHT to do that
She (Streep) has also said that Hoffman provoked her about the death of her fiance (Godfather actor John Cazale- thanks @CritiqueofEverything) to "get a reaction out of her". She had nursed that poor man for years while he battled cancer and losing him devastated her. It's clear that Hoffman's done a lot of shady stuff that he should have been held accountable for. What terrible things to do to ANYONE.
Agreed!!! I remember it was either during the making of or right before the release of Tootsie Dustin Hoffman left his first wife and little kids for the nanny. He got pregnant. So he dumped his first family to start a new one. And he has had other allegations of being a prick pretty much his whole career. And during Me To he had allegations of being a perv to makeup and hair artist and costume designers and his leading ladies. He’s a little man who had success and it went to his big head and he thought he was the best thing ever.
I knew their nanny to their children many years ago (not the nanny he had an affair with) and she said he could be very difficult to deal with prior to filming. He is an abuser in my eyes. I've heard many stories like this one about him. Do that today and you'd be sued. How dare he?!
The way she says "oh he'd be sued, he'd be in court", you can tell she wouldn't have let it go if she could at the time. He had absolutely NO RIGHT to do that
It makes me think he also probably treated his wife the very same way. I’m not justifying anything he did and I’m not condoning it either. But we also need to remember this happened in the late 70’s. Back then it was just starting to change that it wasn’t condoned any longer to beat your wife if she didn’t do what her husband wanted her to do. Unless he beat her to the point of broken bones or a visible bruise or a fat lip or knocked out teeth. That was usually the only time a man was told to leave his wife alone. It was also the same thing with beating your kid. You could spank them just short of broken bones, leaving bruises, a fat lip, or knocking out teeth. A man was permitted to beat his wife and children if he felt like it. And a woman could beat her children without recourse unless she went to far. Then in the mid 80’s it started becoming a issue. And men started being made accountable. But until around sometime in the late eighties a woman couldn’t even get a credit card without getting her husband or Father’s permission to. And then he needed to make sure she understood the responsibility a having a credit card. So if she got divorced then she would have to wait until she could prove she could afford it. Or if her husband was a little bit decent and he agreed to sign for her. So to being a woman married to a abusive man she was SOL the police weren’t interested in protecting and serving the woman.
@Idontwant1 Exactly. And, very well-stated. People don't realize what it was like back in those days. We tend to look back and romantisize the past. Don't get me wrong, there were some good times! But, the other side of the coin was harsh...and dark.
Yeah, that’s actually disgusting. He slapped her off screen? Even if it was on screen. Without her consent? That’s incredibly scary & could’ve hurt her. It left a mark too??? My god.
It’s sad bc She should not have HAD to be elegant. no one deserves to be abused at work just bc their costar is in character. Hoffman is awful for that.
Dustin Hoffman way overdoes the method acting. He got in trouble for embodying willie Logan back stage and on. In marathon man he jogged for miles. Lawrence Olivier said “why don’t you just try acting?”
Lol right!!! I can’t imagine what a nightmare that is to deal with as a fellow actor on set with him. Like Jim Carry in Man In The Moon (the Andy Koffman bio pic) Jim was in character the whole time. The first day he walked on set as Andy. And he insisted as meeting cast and crew as Andy. And when Jim was needed on set he refused to acknowledge or respond unless you spoke to him as Andy and called him Andy. If you called him Jim he would completely ignore you until you correctly called him Andy. I guess I kinda understand transforming yourself into the character. But running a marathon daily to play a runner or refusing to answer to anything but the characters name is wacko. And it really makes me wonder how much of a pain in the butt they are in real life.
@Idontwant1 iv always thought if you have to become the person it's not really acting is it . They are saying lines given to them so it's always seemed pretty silly to me the need to become the person 🤷♀️.
REALLY .....you call class being an abuser of children. #adrenochrome LOOK IT UP! HOLLYWOOD MUSIC INDUSTRY ELIETES POLITICAL FIGURES & MANY MORE! GITMO INBOUND BOOT WEARING
The thing is, the excuse of getting someone in the right headspace for a film through violence and abuse, especially women , has been used for too long and far too often. Meryl is perfectly capable of a performance without the extra "help" that men so often want an excuse to dish out.
Like how the director, Stanley, I think his name is, would constantly put Shelley Duval in under such psychological stress and scare her often to get her in her role in "The Shining". No wonder she had a break down.
@@anakelly76512I still don't understand why Shelly Duvall was in that movie. She had to be prompted somehow, to say her lines. Have any of you seen her in the movie? Danny was a better actor, and he was a kid. Jack Nicholson needed a much stronger better actress as his cast mate. What I remember about Shell Duvall is her greasy stringy hair, and her frumpy clothes.(don't forget the over sized boots) The scene where she was swinging at him with a bat or maybe a broom (I can't remember which) as he is following her up the stairs, the director had to do something to get her to act somewhat afraid. Stephen King was quoted as saying he was not pleased or happy with the film version of his book. I have to agree. Maybe if Ms Duvall was omitted, it would have been a better movie, and she wouldn't have been traumatized so bad. IMO!!
Im not sure what it is exactly about her, but I really love this woman more than any other celeb. She feels like royalty to me. Im glad others notice this too. But still have no odea why
See Tilda, Swinton in Julia. Tilda is absolutely amazing in that movie and runs the complete gamut of a motion for me to see with ease. She put Merrill Street.
What are you babbling about? He HAS. For years. Meryl Streep has told this story for years (and others). He HAS been called out. In fact, you're commenting on exactly such a video clip! Duh. lol. You never hear a peep from him anymore since his metoo moment so what are you whining about? :P
Maybe she could understand women who are in this kind of situation … This movie was made to help men to think they are always right when a divorce occurs . And they have all the rights …
That was one of her first roles.. she has probably acquired the Meryl Streep-ness as we know it over time (although, for the record, I really liked her in both K vs K and The Deer Hunter, in her early career)
@@dejavu011So you assume she started as a bad actress who needed to be slapped yo act better? So what if it was her first role, she was still a professional actress and more importantly a human
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 I didn't say that at all, but actors (and generally HUMANS) tend to get better at their profession as they get on with it. Especially acting, which generally benefits from actors having more experiences
I had seen this interview many years ago and never forgotten this. It changed the way I thought of Dustin and I think what he did was absolutely deplorable not just him slapping her as if that wasn't enough but the fact he thought his status somehow above Meryl and therefor his inferior. He would never have done something like this to his male counterparts would he!
Actually, he was an asshole to everyone and would go out of his way to psychologically manipulate anyone in the cast for an emotional reaction if he felt like they weren't giving it their all. Really scummy behavior that gave "method" acting a bad name, but hopefully he's grown into a nicer human being since then. Life has a way of humbling most people after a while.
How dare you do something like that to ANYONE.......There's so many way to help your colleagues to improve not a fuckin slap..... Damn those times were something else....
@kartikey04606 I had a father. He is deceased. And how old are you? I'm not the "I need a daddy" type. So grow up and face reality. And remember before you type anything else to let people know how smart/dumb you are, I'm not commenting on the 1st response. My comment was placed right where it needed to be. Do you need a map?
I read he said he did it purposely to make her hate him for the next scene. She admits here that it worked. It's actually interesting to read here her reaction, knowing what he was going for in advance of filming. I also thought that he said he apologized to her afterward, because he thought she wasn't getting the proper mood down, and though she said here she thought she was "properly upset", he wanted her to be more authentic. It worked.
There's always 2 sides of the story....especially what we know what goes on in Hollywood and the media now adays.Christ will judge in the END#soontocome#whatactorswilldotogetahead.
Meryl looks so beautiful. I was wondering why she looks so good and natural and now it’s obvious. She isn’t made up like a drag queen; she doesn’t have slugs or overly bushy eyebrows; and no trout pout; and her face moves. Beautiful.
You forgot to mention that she she seems to have naturally amazing genes and there's not a wrinkle on her face. Otherwise everyone here would be talking about what an old hag she's become. Women can't win.
& you "can't" see all the botox in her forehead?🤔🤔 Or the judiciously applied filler in her lips & face? (They just have Surgeons who know better than Beauticians with 3 days/3 weeks trsining that's all - but Meeyl is a beautiful woman💜💜 (& she has had at least 2 facelifts & gers regular botox & filler) go look at how old she is - ofc she's had work done!🙏🏻💜
Dustin was generally harassing women working with him, actresses and others... one recalled how she asked what he wanted for lunch, and he said in front of everyone: a soft boiled cl....is.... she was humiliated... Horrible jerk
They couldn’t get Justin Henry to cry at the goodbye scene at the end so Dustin said to him off camera, ‘you know when we’re done you probably won’t see me and Meryl again’, cue tears and Dustin motioning to the Director to start shooting😊
Wow. The entitlement of Dustin Hoffman. And the power dynamic. Meryl has been in Hollywood a long time…I’m sure she’s been through many situations like this…with no recourse.
They show the clip of Kramer versus Kramer And people were losing their minds, because Meryl Streep’s character left the child to take care of her mental health, and then came back And everyone was raking her over the coals And I thought she did but she should’ve done was to leave the child with the father The other parent Well, you who is facing mental difficulties, got help Crazy how people are “don’t leave your child no matter how bad you are don’t ever leave your child !” He was with his father So crazy
What was very wrong about her leaving her child, was the WAY it was done. No explanation. No goodbye. No mommy needs a break, but will be back. Horrible, horrible, horrible to just completely disappear. 😢😤
Dustin also taunted Meryl off screen about the recent death of her partner John Cazale in an attempt to make the scene more 'real'. Just something I read in the Meryl biography. Dustin Hoffman is talented but insufferably Method lol
He sat next to me one day at Columbia studios. I was struck by the fact his feet didn't touch the floor. It was like sitting next to a four year old. He kept glancing at me as if amazed that I wasn't reacting to sitting next to him. I pretended not to notice him, which was quite a feat ... the bench only held the two of us.
I was watching Mrs Robinson the other day and for the first time realized what a tiny person Dustin is. I saw George Clooney in person and he was also a tiny scrawny little man too. The camera makes them look so much bigger.
I guess you're gonna blow a gasket when I say "Napoleon complex!" @@kayapapaya55 Kidding relax. Same thing happened to me with Tupac also a very small man. I didn't recognize him because movies and billboards make people seem larger than life. It's just surprising not a bad thing at all. I personally cannot stand a tall man leaning over me like a giant tree. And I hate cranking my neck to look up at them. Short men are awesome. It's just surprising.
Exactly. He did it to exert his "dOmInOn" over her. Because he was threatened by her and needed to exert power over her. Total loser. No surprise he hasn't acted in anything in forever.
Meryl could have gut punched him or Kneed him Hard In Self Defense. He hit first. He is the criminal. She is justified. He'd be wary of hitting a woman ever again. I would have cold knocked him out !
We may not agree with it but it worked. Any hard feelings she might of had, it seems like she got over it. It won her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar!
In general all actors have their charmes. It has to be so, because they sell their charmes and their attraction, it's their job. For me, Dustin Hoffman always was an exception to this. For some reason I allways found him unlikeable in some way. Now I know why. It fits. Thank you marvelous Merryl for winning the Oscar for your 15 min of great acting. That slapped him back in exact the right way.
That is horrible he did that to her! I don’t care if he was trying to “get her in the right headspace” or not. There was no need to assault her!! If this has happened today he probably would have been booted out of Hollywood or something. What an ass.
Hoffman was always a method actor and was known for doing odd crap like this to himself and others in order get the best result. It's BS imo but I'm sure his opinion was, "I'll make her really hate me so it looks genuine on screen"..
Meryl is so professional and graceful in spirit, although she is capable of returning a hard slap, she’s far above that level. An exceptional actress, beautiful soul. ❤🙏💕
I think she's just acknowledging the motivation behind why he did it, not that it was right. He had a long history of being a jerk to anyone he didn't think was giving it their all and would psychologically or physically manipulate them to get a reaction. He'd do it to himself too, like stay awake for days at a time or run for miles to appear exhausted for a scene. He was one of the more obnoxious "method" actors ever.
@tronam My annoyance is about famous actresses bragging about tolerating misogyny as 'war wounds' and only fought against to take credit for Rowan Farrow's and undermine their friend Trump. Before and after that, it's business as usual.
Look how beautiful she is, I love every film she's been in, what an actress she is I used to love watching Johnathon Ross He always had great guests, with the best stories. She will never age
It's unforgivable to do something like that. People can get really scarred. Even if had improved her performance, it wouldn't have been worth it. Acting isn't _that_ important
And, the studio Elites, eventually had him on screen, IN A DRESS, BECAUSE that's the sign you wont be working a lot for a really long time! Ever let them get you into a dress !
I dislike Dustin so strongly it’s insane. I was watching Kramer vs Kramer and just though “No idea why but I hate that man. He just looks like somebody I should hate.” Then right after the movie ended this was the first clip to pop up. Later I was watching Series of Unfortunate Events and almost screamed when I saw that he played the critic. He has no right even playing a critic. Meryl played Aunt Josephine in that movie (quite well might I add)
As a Gen X that grew up in the late 70’s, it’s amazing to look back and see how many people behaved themselves. I have a friend that says nothing ever shocks her anymore. I think she’s really lucky because these motherfuckers shock the HELL outta me on a daily basis.
Well and her superior acting. She is literally the best actress in Hollywood. How did she succeed in other movies without getting assaulted? Sophie’s choice would have been better if someone had actually killed one of her children irl by that logic 😂😂😂
You can see this mature woman turn right back in to that young woman here before our eyes. How many of us older mature women are taken back sometimes to when we were younger, weaker, frustrated. Hate him for making her feel that way. Glad she made the most of it.
That movie perfectly captured what can happen when two people stop communicating in their marriage. I always felt that love, trust, and communication were the main ingredients for the success of a marriage.
I've seen two Streep clips in the past few days. She's talking about experiences that would take a long time to get over. The other occurred when she was auditioning for 'King Kong' and the producer said, in Italian, that she was too ugly. Just wondering when she figured out all this awful stuff is karma for being the very best. I bet she has too many stories like this. Kinda funny she's from Yale. How did THAT happen?
Great actress. Amazing movie. She went to grade school at my elementary school. She then moved to a more affluent area for junior high and high school.
That film made me cry. We saw it right after my parents split. We were a product of divorce. It came out right after our parents split. What a fun king fantastic movie. No matter what you wanna say about what Dustin did that movie was magic
People don’t get what she is saying… she actually is admiring his commitment to the character and getting the best performance… the ignorance in this chat is overwhelming…
No. YOU don't get what she's saying. She is well-known for disliking Dustin Hoffman, because of the way he treated her while filming this movie. And she ends the story saying that today he would be "sued" for such behavior. There is no admiration in this story.
I don’t even think the slap was a bad idea. I think a conversation at the beginning of working together regarding doing things like this randomly throughout the working process to get eachother into the right mind frame would have been more appropriate. So yes it worked, but him thinking she actually needed it or wanted it is presumptuous and patronising. She’s a professional, if she wants or needs help let her ask for it or at least have a conversation about it.
@@libbyworkman3459It'd be interesting to hear Dustin's recollections of shooting this film. I imagine he'd been immersed in gritty realism making Midnight Cowboy. Maybe he and Meryl rehearsed this scene, and Dustin unilaterally decided it lacked truthful human emotion - rage, disgust etc. He may have wanted a less 'clean', self-controlled performance from Meryl??
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Maybe that's why they never worked again unlike her other leading Men : Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons ,Tommy Lee Jones Kevin Klein and Jack Nicholson
They teeeeeeechnically did work together again… in Series Of Unfortunate Events she played Aunt Josephine while he played the critic that was only shown in the wedding scene.
@@riverlea2559 oh yeah , he was there , thanks for letting me remember it.
Well she didn't got oscar for any one of those(I don't know fully) but she got it alongside dustin atleast acknowledge that.
@@alifurqan1977so that entitles him to slap her??? SHE won the Oscar and it wasn't the only one. I have always admired his acting, but he had absolutely NO RIGHT to do that
Wrong . Poor meryl
She (Streep) has also said that Hoffman provoked her about the death of her fiance (Godfather actor John Cazale- thanks @CritiqueofEverything) to "get a reaction out of her". She had nursed that poor man for years while he battled cancer and losing him devastated her. It's clear that Hoffman's done a lot of shady stuff that he should have been held accountable for. What terrible things to do to ANYONE.
Agreed!!! I remember it was either during the making of or right before the release of Tootsie Dustin Hoffman left his first wife and little kids for the nanny. He got pregnant. So he dumped his first family to start a new one. And he has had other allegations of being a prick pretty much his whole career. And during Me To he had allegations of being a perv to makeup and hair artist and costume designers and his leading ladies. He’s a little man who had success and it went to his big head and he thought he was the best thing ever.
@@Idontwant1This is so horrible and disheartening
You people are idiots. This is what you do to get what you need out of the actor
I knew their nanny to their children many years ago (not the nanny he had an affair with) and she said he could be very difficult to deal with prior to filming. He is an abuser in my eyes. I've heard many stories like this one about him. Do that today and you'd be sued. How dare he?!
I’m not trying to defend him, but he was trying to get her to tap into those emotions to be able to react emotionally
That’s what actors do
The way she says "oh he'd be sued, he'd be in court", you can tell she wouldn't have let it go if she could at the time. He had absolutely NO RIGHT to do that
I love Meryl❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Can't help but make you wonder what he's like with his real wife! Oh, Heck Naw!!! That little dude would have a flat nose!
It makes me think he also probably treated his wife the very same way. I’m not justifying anything he did and I’m not condoning it either. But we also need to remember this happened in the late 70’s. Back then it was just starting to change that it wasn’t condoned any longer to beat your wife if she didn’t do what her husband wanted her to do. Unless he beat her to the point of broken bones or a visible bruise or a fat lip or knocked out teeth. That was usually the only time a man was told to leave his wife alone. It was also the same thing with beating your kid. You could spank them just short of broken bones, leaving bruises, a fat lip, or knocking out teeth. A man was permitted to beat his wife and children if he felt like it. And a woman could beat her children without recourse unless she went to far. Then in the mid 80’s it started becoming a issue. And men started being made accountable. But until around sometime in the late eighties a woman couldn’t even get a credit card without getting her husband or Father’s permission to. And then he needed to make sure she understood the responsibility a having a credit card. So if she got divorced then she would have to wait until she could prove she could afford it. Or if her husband was a little bit decent and he agreed to sign for her. So to being a woman married to a abusive man she was SOL the police weren’t interested in protecting and serving the woman.
@Idontwant1 Exactly. And, very well-stated. People don't realize what it was like back in those days. We tend to look back and romantisize the past. Don't get me wrong, there were some good times! But, the other side of the coin was harsh...and dark.
@@Idontwant1 Wether is happened in the 1970s ot the 1870s it still doesn't make it right!
She tells that story with such a grace. She's pure elegance
She's fake
Yeah, that’s actually disgusting. He slapped her off screen? Even if it was on screen. Without her consent? That’s incredibly scary & could’ve hurt her. It left a mark too??? My god.
It’s sad bc She should not have HAD to be elegant. no one deserves to be abused at work just bc their costar is in character. Hoffman is awful for that.
Also, that character wasn't a wife beater. It was just an excuse to abuse.@@ambriaashley3383
There’s nothing elegant about literally ignoring something like that.
Dustin Hoffman way overdoes the method acting. He got in trouble for embodying willie Logan back stage and on. In marathon man he jogged for miles. Lawrence Olivier said “why don’t you just try acting?”
Lol right!!! I can’t imagine what a nightmare that is to deal with as a fellow actor on set with him. Like Jim Carry in Man In The Moon (the Andy Koffman bio pic) Jim was in character the whole time. The first day he walked on set as Andy. And he insisted as meeting cast and crew as Andy. And when Jim was needed on set he refused to acknowledge or respond unless you spoke to him as Andy and called him Andy. If you called him Jim he would completely ignore you until you correctly called him Andy. I guess I kinda understand transforming yourself into the character. But running a marathon daily to play a runner or refusing to answer to anything but the characters name is wacko. And it really makes me wonder how much of a pain in the butt they are in real life.
@Idontwant1 iv always thought if you have to become the person it's not really acting is it . They are saying lines given to them so it's always seemed pretty silly to me the need to become the person 🤷♀️.
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Can’t agree more.
@@Idontwant1And all you will do is continue to wonder, meanwhile they will go on continuing to be legends of their trade.
@@TheDirtydee118It’s acting because you need it on screen dummy
Method acting was an excuse for all kinds of abuse
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Just think of how easy it was for him to hit Meryl like that. He probably wouldn't have thought twice before striking his wife.
Right? Popular with men who wanted to method as a monster. Funny that.
😂😂😂😂 you babies should need a nap and a pill of reality none of the above entailed abuse.
@@louvretreekay12_ 😂😂😂 it seems fun to have no brain 😂😂😂😂
Clint Eastwood is the toughest actor on earth and Meryl said she loved working with him. No need to go around hitting woman or anyone for that matter
He's also a director... working actress
Clint
speaks few words
And speaks softly
100% agree Totally uncalled for !! WOW WHAT A CLOD
Shes talking about Dustin Hoffman not Clint Eastwood.
@@mojosuzo9617Dustin yes, Clint would never in a million years do that!! Omg
Regal and forever beautiful Meryl Streep. An absolute credit to the craft of acting ❤
Meryl exudes grace and decorum, even in the telling of something so disgraceful, she is pure class
REALLY .....you call class being an abuser of children.
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She would be bashed if she wouldn't 😢
I dont think anyone should be handled with violence .
The thing is, the excuse of getting someone in the right headspace for a film through violence and abuse, especially women , has been used for too long and far too often. Meryl is perfectly capable of a performance without the extra "help" that men so often want an excuse to dish out.
Like how the director, Stanley, I think his name is, would constantly put Shelley Duval in under such psychological stress and scare her often to get her in her role in "The Shining".
No wonder she had a break down.
Oh boo hoo... is Dustin still an actor. ..
@@anakelly76512I still don't understand why Shelly Duvall was in that movie. She had to be prompted somehow, to say her lines. Have any of you seen her in the movie? Danny was a better actor, and he was a kid. Jack Nicholson needed a much stronger better actress as his cast mate. What I remember about Shell Duvall is her greasy stringy hair, and her frumpy clothes.(don't forget the over sized boots) The scene where she was swinging at him with a bat or maybe a broom (I can't remember which) as he is following her up the stairs, the director had to do something to get her to act somewhat afraid. Stephen King was quoted as saying he was not pleased or happy with the film version of his book. I have to agree. Maybe if Ms Duvall was omitted, it would have been a better movie, and she wouldn't have been traumatized so bad. IMO!!
@@fjb10024Have you a point to make? If not, don’t bother posting…..
Just men?
I think she should have slapped him back
Finally … an intelligent appropriate comment. Sadly women who think and act like us are in the minority. ❤
Agreed.
Definitely....he's only a little runt anyway🤨
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Or worse. Kick him in his favorite parts. Then he might understand a bit better.
If an actor tried to do that today he'd be in jail
and rightly so
@@oscarwilde5473no he should be in jail too.
Not Margot Robbie I guess
You mean like Will Smith?
Alec Baldwin shot his crew. Should he be in jail?
Im not sure what it is exactly about her, but I really love this woman more than any other celeb. She feels like royalty to me. Im glad others notice this too. But still have no odea why
When she's acting on screen and off she does it naturally as is she's talking to you .
See Tilda, Swinton in Julia. Tilda is absolutely amazing in that movie and runs the complete gamut of a motion for me to see with ease. She put Merrill Street.
It's called class, she has it.
Worshipping actors is wrong
All they are is very well paid professional liars, they are not special.
Agree. They all are evil and selfish.
Very much so.
It’s a pity Dustin Hoffman hasn’t been called out on his horrible behaviour. Meryl Streep has always been a consummate professional
What are you babbling about? He HAS. For years. Meryl Streep has told this story for years (and others). He HAS been called out. In fact, you're commenting on exactly such a video clip! Duh. lol. You never hear a peep from him anymore since his metoo moment so what are you whining about? :P
As it turned out many years later in public, indeed he should have been sued then🤨
Perhaps things were somewhat different 45 years ago... even in big towns and cities
@@planetclaire820boulder8. Not perhaps; most definitely, however that is beside the point. It was sooooo wrong then as well!😌
It still doesn't make it right!@@planetclaire820boulder8
Meryl is a great actress! Doesnt need to be slapped to get her to act
That’s what I was thinking. What a pompous a-hole to assume she needed to be abused to “act” mad at him
Maybe she could understand women who are in this kind of situation …
This movie was made to help men to think they are always right when a divorce occurs . And they have all the rights …
That was one of her first roles.. she has probably acquired the Meryl Streep-ness as we know it over time (although, for the record, I really liked her in both K vs K and The Deer Hunter, in her early career)
@@dejavu011So you assume she started as a bad actress who needed to be slapped yo act better? So what if it was her first role, she was still a professional actress and more importantly a human
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 I didn't say that at all, but actors (and generally HUMANS) tend to get better at their profession as they get on with it. Especially acting, which generally benefits from actors having more experiences
I had seen this interview many years ago and never forgotten this. It changed the way I thought of Dustin and I think what he did was absolutely deplorable not just him slapping her as if that wasn't enough but the fact he thought his status somehow above Meryl and therefor his inferior. He would never have done something like this to his male counterparts would he!
Actually, he was an asshole to everyone and would go out of his way to psychologically manipulate anyone in the cast for an emotional reaction if he felt like they weren't giving it their all. Really scummy behavior that gave "method" acting a bad name, but hopefully he's grown into a nicer human being since then. Life has a way of humbling most people after a while.
The more I hear about Dustin Hoffman the less and less I can stand him…
What else have you heard?
In my humble opinion,he gives off a weird vibe. Like he's done shitty & dark things..
SAME. i never thought he was a good actor/he always overdoes it imo
You meant to say the less and less you like him.
No one should hit the Great Meryl Streep
Thing is, she doesn't need to be ACTUALLY mad at him. She's a damn actress. She can ACT IT.
I would've had a punch reflex 😮
Yep. Little Dustin would have needed some help off the floor.
She was probably in shock.
What a terrible thing to do!
She’s the classiest woman but she says what she thinks. ❤
How dare you do something like that to ANYONE.......There's so many way to help your colleagues to improve not a fuckin slap..... Damn those times were something else....
Get a grip
@@jemimahkendall6579No, you need a reality check!
Men don't respect women.. They fear us bc we're so competent!!
Oddly, we make their lives easier..
@@kartikey04606well, that plummeted to sad human depths quickly.
@kartikey04606 I had a father. He is deceased. And how old are you? I'm not the "I need a daddy" type. So grow up and face reality. And remember before you type anything else to let people know how smart/dumb you are, I'm not commenting on the 1st response. My comment was placed right where it needed to be. Do you need a map?
I wonder if anyone has interviewed Dustin about this?
Of course not, he's not going to admit to assaulting a woman!
I read he said he did it purposely to make her hate him for the next scene. She admits here that it worked. It's actually interesting to read here her reaction, knowing what he was going for in advance of filming. I also thought that he said he apologized to her afterward, because he thought she wasn't getting the proper mood down, and though she said here she thought she was "properly upset", he wanted her to be more authentic. It worked.
@@KP-mb9jxoh FFS she’s nowhere near as upset as you are. 😂
There's always 2 sides of the story....especially what we know what goes on in Hollywood and the media now adays.Christ will judge in the END#soontocome#whatactorswilldotogetahead.
Because women have been conditioned to take abuse. It's easier to stand up for someone else than yourself.@@Gemmarose9012
Try hitting her now Dustin..
So truly in love with Meryl... she is the GOAT
AMEN. no one comes close (tho...phillip seymour hoffman was a great one)
Well at least a goat
The arrogance of actors and entitlement of men at work.
Wouldn't think of Dustin doing that. Meryl an exceptional actress. Love her.♥️♥️
Nothing spared for perfection
It was a different time
No, just the entitlement of men.
@@bethburger1426 No men are the same just more cautious..
Can you imagine the stories this brilliant women has about hollywood. We need a tell all please. Shes an amazing actress.
She has been totally amazing in the third season of Only Murders in the Building. Her audition scene and her lullaby song scene were remarkable.
It’s a crap series- Selena is the best actress there- how sad is that Dreyfus has lost his ability to act ??
Meryl looks so beautiful. I was wondering why she looks so good and natural and now it’s obvious. She isn’t made up like a drag queen; she doesn’t have slugs or overly bushy eyebrows; and no trout pout; and her face moves. Beautiful.
You forgot to mention that she she seems to have naturally amazing genes and there's not a wrinkle on her face. Otherwise everyone here would be talking about what an old hag she's become. Women can't win.
Also. But it's rather her shining from inside and modesty while being one of the best, if not THE best actress of present time.
She's also quite a unique beauty. She lets that unique natural beauty shine through. Pretty black vneck, soft ponytail, and gold hoops. Perfect frame.
& you "can't" see all the botox in her forehead?🤔🤔 Or the judiciously applied filler in her lips & face? (They just have Surgeons who know better than Beauticians with 3 days/3 weeks trsining that's all - but Meeyl is a beautiful woman💜💜 (& she has had at least 2 facelifts & gers regular botox & filler) go look at how old she is - ofc she's had work done!🙏🏻💜
@@margotp.6291She is an EXCELLENT ACTRESS. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA EAS MOVIE THAT HAD ME SEEING MERYL IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT. A GREAT LIGHT. ❤❤
Dustin was generally harassing women working with him, actresses and others... one recalled how she asked what he wanted for lunch, and he said in front of everyone: a soft boiled cl....is.... she was humiliated...
Horrible jerk
Soft boiled what?
@@rayne3132clitoris is the "solution", i guess...
Why do you have to censor the word clitoris...?
Andy Warhol use to hit models and anyone he deemed deserving of a slap. Same thing... a selfish, entitled, over rated asshole.
Shirt man syndrome. Inferiority complex. Dustin can act just not with great women.
This lady is absolutely the BEST actress in Hollywood! Anything for her craft.❤
How dare he do something like this?!
May be to make her angry for the role. But must be other methods.
No respect.
@@xilo3012Correct, on both points.
And people wonder, especially clueless men, why feminism was born. 😔😩
Love her❤ one of the best actresses in the world❤❤❤❤
She is so much a lady even to this day -she is so careful to say the correct memory of it & never forgot it either......❤
They couldn’t get Justin Henry to cry at the goodbye scene at the end so Dustin said to him off camera, ‘you know when we’re done you probably won’t see me and Meryl again’, cue tears and Dustin motioning to the Director to start shooting😊
She’s so beautiful 🥰
Wow. The entitlement of Dustin Hoffman. And the power dynamic. Meryl has been in Hollywood a long time…I’m sure she’s been through many situations like this…with no recourse.
They show the clip of Kramer versus Kramer
And people were losing their minds, because Meryl Streep’s character left the child to take care of her mental health, and then came back
And everyone was raking her over the coals
And I thought she did but she should’ve done was to leave the child with the father
The other parent
Well, you who is facing mental difficulties, got help
Crazy how people are “don’t leave your child no matter how bad you are don’t ever leave your child !”
He was with his father
So crazy
What was very wrong about her leaving her child, was the WAY it was done. No explanation. No goodbye. No mommy needs a break, but will be back. Horrible, horrible, horrible to just completely disappear. 😢😤
Dustin also taunted Meryl off screen about the recent death of her partner John Cazale in an attempt to make the scene more 'real'. Just something I read in the Meryl biography. Dustin Hoffman is talented but insufferably Method lol
no he did not. You think they’d let him do that & neither would she.
@@joycegibbs5267 This is a known fact. Do your research. I'm not doing it for you.
No, a scumbag that hates women!!
Plain inhuman
Cazale was a fantastic actor.
He sat next to me one day at Columbia studios. I was struck by the fact his feet didn't touch the floor. It was like sitting next to a four year old. He kept glancing at me as if amazed that I wasn't reacting to sitting next to him. I pretended not to notice him, which was quite a feat ... the bench only held the two of us.
So what if he's short
I was watching Mrs Robinson the other day and for the first time realized what a tiny person Dustin is. I saw George Clooney in person and he was also a tiny scrawny little man too. The camera makes them look so much bigger.
@@kayapapaya55there is no so what. She's just telling a story.
@@skyclad89 yes there is a so what. Who cares what size someone is. What does it have to do with anything? I'm really not interested in your answer
I guess you're gonna blow a gasket when I say "Napoleon complex!" @@kayapapaya55 Kidding relax. Same thing happened to me with Tupac also a very small man. I didn't recognize him because movies and billboards make people seem larger than life. It's just surprising not a bad thing at all. I personally cannot stand a tall man leaning over me like a giant tree. And I hate cranking my neck to look up at them. Short men are awesome. It's just surprising.
Love Ms Streep
In EVERYTHING SHE HAS BEEN IN !! God Bless You!
ChinaDoll of the Platters
PS-LOOK FOR THE LIGHT IS BEAUTIFULLY SONG BY YOU!
My natural reaction would have been to jump on his back and bite his ears off. 😂😂😂
I wonder if Hoffman ever apologized to her for that slap?
In his egotistical grey matter he thinks he did her a favor - that she needed it.
dustin didn't do this to improve meryl's repartee, he did it because he's a misogynist
Exactly. He did it to exert his "dOmInOn" over her. Because he was threatened by her and needed to exert power over her. Total loser. No surprise he hasn't acted in anything in forever.
@@lyndaanneshopy’all are dead on. This is horrific to hear.
Or she’s a cow?
How the hell do you know what he was thinking back in the '70s or what she was thinking. You have no idea. Shut up please
Totally agree. What a horrible and abusive thing to do. Despicable.
My favorite actress ❤❤LOVE her
Meryl could have gut punched
him or Kneed him Hard In Self
Defense. He hit first. He is the criminal. She is justified. He'd
be wary of hitting a woman ever
again. I would have cold knocked him out !
We may not agree with it but it worked. Any hard feelings she might of had, it seems like she got over it. It won her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar!
In general all actors have their charmes. It has to be so, because they sell their charmes and their attraction, it's their job. For me, Dustin Hoffman always was an exception to this. For some reason I allways found him unlikeable in some way. Now I know why. It fits. Thank you marvelous Merryl for winning the Oscar for your 15 min of great acting. That slapped him back in exact the right way.
Insufferably method says it all for me
I think he intentionally sought those kinds of roles out, overly obsessed with "method acting". He never wanted to be a traditional leading man.
Love Dustin Hoffman. One of the greatest actors to have ever lived.
That is horrible he did that to her! I don’t care if he was trying to “get her in the right headspace” or not. There was no need to assault her!! If this has happened today he probably would have been booted out of Hollywood or something. What an ass.
She’s my all time favorite actress!! And my all time favorite movie is one of hers, “The Bridges of Madison County.” 💕💕
You can tell she is still bothered by that as she should be
Meryl has always been my favorite actress it’s just something very special about her.
Hoffman was always a method actor and was known for doing odd crap like this to himself and others in order get the best result. It's BS imo but I'm sure his opinion was, "I'll make her really hate me so it looks genuine on screen"..
YES AND THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE AS YOU WALKED LITERALLY SAID IT ALL. IT WORKED
Ti adoroooo 🥰. Bravissima attrice. Divertentissima.Adoro tutti i suoi film.Un matrimonio quasi perfetto film divertentissimo e .lei fantastica 👏👏👏👏❤️
Meryl is so professional and graceful in spirit, although she is capable of returning a hard slap, she’s far above that level. An exceptional actress, beautiful soul. ❤🙏💕
'He set me up for the scene'
She is still justifying it
I think she's just acknowledging the motivation behind why he did it, not that it was right. He had a long history of being a jerk to anyone he didn't think was giving it their all and would psychologically or physically manipulate them to get a reaction. He'd do it to himself too, like stay awake for days at a time or run for miles to appear exhausted for a scene. He was one of the more obnoxious "method" actors ever.
@tronam My annoyance is about famous actresses bragging about tolerating misogyny as 'war wounds' and only fought against to take credit for Rowan Farrow's and undermine their friend Trump.
Before and after that, it's business as usual.
Look how beautiful she is,
I love every film she's been in, what an actress she is
I used to love watching Johnathon Ross
He always had great guests, with the best stories.
She will never age
Kramer vs. Kramer. Such a good movie. That's horrible he slapped her
My favorite actress
It's unforgivable to do something like that. People can get really scarred. Even if had improved her performance, it wouldn't have been worth it. Acting isn't _that_ important
I love her!
Absolutely disgusting behavior on his part. I never liked him and now I know why.
I find Meryl exceptional in two film, one Sofie’s choice and Kramer. Her emotion is so raw. Such amazing and intelligent actor she is!
Maybe they’ll encounter one another again and she can just slap the fudge out of him
Much respect for this woman.
Yeah apparently Dustin got away with a lot cr@p back then
And, the studio Elites, eventually had him on screen, IN A DRESS, BECAUSE that's the sign you wont be working a lot for a really long time! Ever let them get you into a dress !
My alarms go off when I think of him.
If he tried that today he’d be a dead man walking or perhaps doing regional theater in Florida.
Great movie, all these years I remember it well 😢😢❤❤❤
Imagine someone slapped you at work and got away with it. 😮
That movie was incredible, especially for that era.
Bully. Feeling to have power over someone they think are weaker .Booooo
I admire, Meryl as a performer and a beautiful sound woman❣
I so wanna slap Dusty rn
Hello Meryl Streep you should’ve slapped him back ❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢.
Meryl Streep ❤️
I dislike Dustin so strongly it’s insane. I was watching Kramer vs Kramer and just though “No idea why but I hate that man. He just looks like somebody I should hate.” Then right after the movie ended this was the first clip to pop up. Later I was watching Series of Unfortunate Events and almost screamed when I saw that he played the critic. He has no right even playing a critic. Meryl played Aunt Josephine in that movie (quite well might I add)
As a Gen X that grew up in the late 70’s, it’s amazing to look back and see how many people behaved themselves. I have a friend that says nothing ever shocks her anymore. I think she’s really lucky because these motherfuckers shock the HELL outta me on a daily basis.
Her loyalty to weistein was a slap in face of other actresses
Thats coz she is also a creep
She is smarter than that.
Quite a few actresses were silent about him. And others backed him up.
You can’t get much classier than Meryl Streep…
Meryl Streep is the epitome of grace. Do you recall how she handled a disrespectful, arrogant, orange politician?
She’s a menopausal egotist! She’s disrespectful and arrogant! Dustin didn’t do it hard enough
One of my favorite movies!!!
People, she is not mad because she knows she got an Oscar thanks to that slap.
Well and her superior acting. She is literally the best actress in Hollywood. How did she succeed in other movies without getting assaulted? Sophie’s choice would have been better if someone had actually killed one of her children irl by that logic 😂😂😂
You can see this mature woman turn right back in to that young woman here before our eyes. How many of us older mature women are taken back sometimes to when we were younger, weaker, frustrated. Hate him for making her feel that way. Glad she made the most of it.
Dustin is a legend
really? what's the last movie he was in?
That movie perfectly captured what can happen when two people stop communicating in their marriage. I always felt that love, trust, and communication were the main ingredients for the success of a marriage.
I've seen two Streep clips in the past few days. She's talking about experiences that would take a long time to get over. The other occurred when she was auditioning for 'King Kong' and the producer said, in Italian, that she was too ugly. Just wondering when she figured out all this awful stuff is karma for being the very best. I bet she has too many stories like this. Kinda funny she's from Yale. How did THAT happen?
She's extremely intelligent.. probably why Dustin hates her.
She is.. Jane HAD to be drop dead gorgeous..
Great actress. Amazing movie.
She went to grade school at my elementary school. She then moved to a more affluent area for junior high and high school.
He has been married many times.. beware!
That film made me cry. We saw it right after my parents split. We were a product of divorce. It came out right after our parents split. What a fun king fantastic movie. No matter what you wanna say about what Dustin did that movie was magic
People don’t get what she is saying… she actually is admiring his commitment to the character and getting the best performance… the ignorance in this chat is overwhelming…
No. YOU don't get what she's saying. She is well-known for disliking Dustin Hoffman, because of the way he treated her while filming this movie. And she ends the story saying that today he would be "sued" for such behavior. There is no admiration in this story.
@@tuckerplum8085 Ok.
i think her whole career and grace was the biggest slap back
He was a friend of weinstein
Greatest actor of all time! ❤
I don’t even think the slap was a bad idea. I think a conversation at the beginning of working together regarding doing things like this randomly throughout the working process to get eachother into the right mind frame would have been more appropriate. So yes it worked, but him thinking she actually needed it or wanted it is presumptuous and patronising. She’s a professional, if she wants or needs help let her ask for it or at least have a conversation about it.
@86sineadw. Dustin Hoffman was not in charge of getting Meryl Streep in the right mood to do any scene. What he did is plain and simply assault.
@@libbyworkman3459It'd be interesting to hear Dustin's recollections of shooting this film. I imagine he'd been immersed in gritty realism making Midnight Cowboy. Maybe he and Meryl rehearsed this scene, and Dustin unilaterally decided it lacked truthful human emotion - rage, disgust etc. He may have wanted a less 'clean', self-controlled performance from Meryl??