Dustin Hoffman talks about Meryl Streep

[TubeGuest5178]

He looks like Jennifer Anniston's dad.

[cocatona]

Dustin Hoffman is the best actor that has ever lived

[Natasha249]

I still don't like him! After Meryl said in an interview that he had slapped her off camera!

I Love Meryl Streep and I HATE Dustin!

[luctyn]

@Natasha249 He slapped her during a scene, but they didn't use that take,. In the KvK you can see the red mark on her face. But it's not like he just walked up and slapped her one day for nothing. Their acting styles didn't mesh and they didn't really get along on set, but they're both over it. I love Meryl too :)

[observer9670]

Meryl was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar the year before for The Deer Hunter. But it is possible that they cast Kramer prior to the nominations being announced.

[sbojovic64]

NAJLEPSI MUSKARAC NA SVETU !!! Diplomac !!!

[cochranexyz]

I am always dumbstruck with hearing or reading about who was "supposed" to be in the role.  And in all accounts I am glad they chose who they did for the final part.

[majesticmaniac]

John Cazale.....Dogday afternoon, Godfather 1, Godfather 2, Deer Hunter, The conversation...Boy was a he a legend

[alexaadap]

good he mentioned John Cazale. great actor

[xSolangeee]

@illusionistdave

Meryl is the most attractive women I've ever seen.

[bladesofglory12]

"In the very first scene he slapped me as hard as he could, off-camera, you could see the mark. I was so shocked, it set me up for the right feeling for him. I love him, but I was mad at him that day!" - Meryl Streep

There's your proof that it wasn't a big deal or as big and scary as you guys are making it out to be.

[bladesofglory12]

Guys, Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep are both incredible actors, we all know it, so there's no reason to compare them to each other and say who's better. We all have our own opinions. And as for the slapping thing, who the hell cares? I mean really? You're not them, you don't even know them, so stop pretending that you know the whole story and what really happened because you don't. Everyones just making accusations that probably aren't even true.

[rockstarrist]

I am his biggest fan on EARTH.. I have watched all his movies so far n I am DYING to meet him atleast once.. He is the BEST actor in the History of Universe, not just now but in the millions of years to come...!!

[sleepypoodle]

It's so funny that his ego wouldn't permit him to tell the full version about the director using Meryl's script...over HIS (and everyone elses) Hoffman was convinced that his would be chosen and was deeply upset and offended that Meryl who was far less experienced and a relative newcomer had written a better script (it would be interesting to know whether the 'slapping' event happened before or after this). They are both suspiciously polite about eachother in interviews which says it all really.

[sleepypoodle]

Meryl has never forgiven him for slapping her face really hard off screen in a patronising effort to 'help' her get into 'the zone' prior to the scene where she leaves him. They have never worked together since and don't actually like eachother. He was also really upset and angry that the director chose Meryl's script over his for the courtroom scene, he'd invited all major cast and production staff to each write a version of Meryl's speech and Meryl's was by far the best one.

[thelupoistheman1]

@sleepypoodle,

Yeah, they don't like each other. Thats why Meryl helped him with his Dorothy Michaels voice for Tootsie

[rockstarrist]

Where is the full interview?

[kakan113]

Give me Peter pan!

[xZRiQ]

Great Person nd Actor ,, LooVe hes Movie's ,,

[happylilsunbeam]

If Dustin hasn't written a book he really should. He always has so many fantastic stories and he tells them flawlessly.

[MrRustyspot]

@happylilsunbeam I never thought about that, but you're right! He should - it would be fascinating. Definitely... definitely fascinating.

[aznboionfya]

wtf he's 73?!?! i cannot believe I thought he was cute in " last chance harvey". omg does film make people look younger, i thought he was 50!

holy shit!

[jameskoolkat]

Movies:

DUSTIN HOFFMAN WILL PLAY GRAMPS TO THOSE 'LITTLE FOCKERS' AFTER ALL

Hoffman signs to reprise his role as Bernie Focker in the MEET THE PARENT threequel, despite being written out of the film

[MrsDeppMcGregorBloom]

when I found out that Dustin slapped Meryl just before a scene while filming "Kramer vs. Kramer" (on the Jonathan Ross interview with Meryl) to make her more emotional in the role, I really can't look at him in the same light...yeah, he's a good actor but no man should hit a woman no matter how famous he is...

[TheVietDragon]

He's gay lol ! 

[PurpleMaster958Two]

@TheVietDragon So?

[juffan]

Her boyfriend who died John Cazale probably has the shortest and most impressive filmography of anyone. The Godfather I and II, Deerhunter, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and thats it. He was only in 5 feature films.

[pemchem]

I love that woman's hair!

[92af]

Dustin Hoffman is a great actor

[bababoum]

@92af the best.

[snider]

John and Meryl both worked with DeNiro in Deer hunter...

[WaryRox]

While he is trying to say well she was just sucessful at being sad because she recently lost a loved one and not because she was the greatest actress of all time, she is pregnant with Don's first child.

Seems to me that he would say anything to deminish the most nominated actor evder.

You can't Dustin Hoffman. Get over Le Streep. She's out of your league.

[captwasabi]

He's saying that despite her tragic loss she was still able to knock their socks off. How is that bad?

[Pistolero24]

Out of his league ? He's one of the greatest actors of all time, easily pertaining to Streep's glorious circle. And none of his comments were pejorative : You suck at interpretation...

[judetommyq]

Sorry Meryl Streep is a great actres and she is doing great with her career she is not afraid to try new things Dustin Hoffman no offense I think he is a good actor but he has no room to judge and say crap cuz Merylvs him it would show that Meryl has the bigger career

[raphie2]

Thanks Dustin for knowing the perfect time to cast Meryl in kramer vs kramer. Thanks also for being an instrument to Meryl's 1st oscar win as supporting actress for the same film : ))

[alexahaller]

Nah, he still pisses me off for what he said about her in K vs K.

[KellyGreen5555]

Dustin & Meryl are class acts...these twits posting otherwise should shut up & respect the fact.

[moviegoer9798]

why yes, she is a brilliant actress

[dreamingofsagada]

dustin hoffman slapping meryl streep while making kramer vs. kramer to "help the acting" is stupid and smacks of illusions of grandeur. i should slap dustin hoffman around for him to genuinely portray the characters assigned to him. notice how he just says the lines while still just being dustin hoffman and never the character? dustin hoffman is eating meryl streep's dust. dustin is lucky, meryl is genius and lucky. fuck dustin hoffman! i hate hate hate hoffman's guts.

[moviegoer9798]

how can u hate the man that try really hard to get meryl in for charlies angels you stink dreamingofsagada. oh and by the way ur you tube name is WAY to long

[meavus6]

i like dustin you know he's funny in meet the fockers and stuff but in fairness meryl streep is a million times a better actress and you can tell there was tension between them over the whole meryl writing the courtroom speach i think the slap was just dustin being dustin even if it is a bit unorthadox ha! loveyou meryl:)

[Knoxvicious]

Umm...no. Dustin Hoffman is a million, MILLION times better.

[shortcake134]

yeah okay. thats why meryl streep holds the record for most nominated for academy awards and most nominated for golden globes.

[Knoxvicious]

Yeah, and that's also why brilliant actors like Gary Oldman have NEVER gotten nominated for academy awards. What a lame ass excuse...

[shortcake134]

takes one to know one

[Knoxvicious]

XD

You got me... :(

[shortcake134]

you got me too. the academy isn't always right...

[0crazyfrog0]

You're fooling yourself if you really think that is true.

[Knoxvicious]

Too bad. It is true.

[honeyhoney1992]

he doesn`t mention they wanted to cast Kate Jackson because she was his girlfriend then... wonder why

[lydiadezwart]

Haha.. I bet he wouldn't have slapped Kate Jackon at the time..

[unika542]

lolz of course cause they said that was the reason he slapped meryl because he was currently dating Kate Jackson at the time and he was very devastated when meryl got the part because they wont let Kate do it...

[Martine95P]

She like him, she say i love him, but boy i was mad that day, or somrthing

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

oh, poor meryl. I never put two and two together that Merl made Kramer vs Kramer right after John Cazale died. Poor sweetheart, no wonder she seems so fragile. <3 <3 <3

[Frye666]

you people who thinks Dustin and Meryl dont like each other are stupid fools. Look the way D talks about her.

You just like stupid tabloid rumors. it tells a lot about you.

[moviegoer9798]

hey just becus they talk about eachother dosnt mean they are in live

[Frye666]

hey who said the are in love? I said the do not hate each other.

[candyfish0318]

Check this video...

"Meryl Streep on Friday Night with Jonathan ross 1/3"

then ~ you guys will find the answer

[odapodaxD]

omg,Dustin did really slapped Meryl?!

I would have never though that! it looks like they are friends, but truly their not! :-o omg, but did Meryl said to Dustin that he could do that? or did he just do it without asking her?!

[PeaceLoveSammy]

no they arent friends at all, one of the people in her biography that is close with her even admitts to it and dustin did slap meryl before the scene where she left in the movie to get her to cry and be very emotion, the director meryl and dustin have said that before.

[ImNotThere100]

thats nothing special. i've heard countless interviews about when an actor yelled at another actor beforehand to emotionally prepare them. pacino does this often as well.

[bu3asalli]

@ImNotThere100 yh sure yell not slap them for god's sake!

[odapodaxD]

omg,what's wrong with jaredlovr99?

sorry, but siriousley! I'm very sure that Dustin did NOT slapped Meryl! and they are friends,oh my god .. you can just stop spreading rumours! that's silly of you ..

[melissamarie9597]

yes dustin did slap meryl to get her into character

[sandyanndixon]

thats not true thou ann hathaway and meryl streep dont like each other much meryl once called ann fat

[iamamzaing1234]

thats not true if u watch them on the view meryl told her not to loose any weight

[jayzhelle]

meryl & dustin are not friends but they respect each other as actors. dustin knows that meryl is a great actress but he doesnt like her guts. joanna's testimonial in the trial was all meryl.. dustin didn't like that. dustin wasn't even in meryl's afi tribute. they weren't friends. it's weird that dustin didnt like her because all of meryl's co-actors love her.

[ginnane2608]

You really are an ignerant person stop spreading rumours you fool and go get some friends and a life

[anindeeta]

actually when meryl accepted her oscar for kramer, she grabbed hoffman and kissed his cheek,, true, that's just one act, but that kinda says a lot..

[horseyluvr123]

dustin doesnt like her..?? he can go to hell she is the funniest person i hav ever met and she's soooo nice dustin shud go fall in a hole..

[unika542]

yah ur ryt... they said that he slapped her at that time because he couldn't accept the fact that the woman he was seeing at the time who was obviously Kate Jackson didn't have the role so just because of that he slapped her...... god i really thought they were good 2gerther...

[jayzhelle]

yes. he slapped her. meryl confirmed that. she even spoke about it on her afi tribute. he slapped her out of nowhere. there was a story that said dustin just want meryl to be prepared for the scene. but hell, you don't have to slap somebody! meryl can do acting herself. she said that in an interview jonathan ross show.

[ginnane2608]

jayzhelle you are an idiot

Meryl and dustan are friends

Dustin did slap her but that doesnt mean they are not friends and YOU and any other people who like to put people down and get into other peoples business should get a life and some help

That is Meryl and Dustins Business and I think that some idiot who likes to spread rumours like you should get some friends

[unika542]

well if you ask us rumors do come from something dont they? and god if the great actress really said that herself then hats off, she really cant forget that a great actor at the time slapped her for no reason and if you ought to tell us that we need to mind our own business well you better just stick it up ur ass and mind ur own business too ...

p.s: go get ur life somewhere out of nowhere...

[angel585]

whoa wait a minute, he slapped her? Someone give me the 411!

[davidc2570]

dustin slapped her in kramer. no wonder she doesn't like him.

[davidc2570]

meryl doesn't like dustin and they haven't worked together since kramer. you can tell he doesn't like her either since he didn't turn up to celebrate her in 2004 when american film honoured her.

[kimedes008]

Meryl can do Joanna anyhow, and not just because of something. She's a brilliant actress even earlier on her career

[MSlovesDG]

dustin is an asshole...he's just faking it! meryl hates him and he knows that, anyway who wouldn't hate a person who slapped you?

[SpiderStreep]

i hate i hate i hate i hate i hate .....dustin -.-

[xochicago]

haha dude, meryl streep and dustin hoffman do not get along. He did slap her and denies it haha but she was okay with it and bc he was Duston Hoffman she took it, but he didn't know she would be huuuuge compared to him. and They haven't done anything together ever again, and she always reworks with people like Robert DeNiro, 3 times, Jack Nicholson, 2 times, and Kevin Kline, 3, Robert Redford, 2. I mean obviously he was cocky and didn't like her being able to write her own lines. he's lying here

[Ambaegbu]

When did she work with bob deniro three times?

[xochicago]

The Deer Hunter

Falling in Love

And Marvin's Room

[aprilwearsgucci]

Doubt he has her number. Didn't he slap her for real before they filmed a scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. And didn't he get jealous of her because she got to write her own courtroom scene. I don't think he likes her that much. But who cares she's the best actress ever and that's that. So Dustin eat cake!

[honeyhoney1992]

he slapped her for real? why did he do that??

[jaredlovr99]

Yes, it was just before they shot the sequence when she leaves them. She comes out of their apartment, and in the hallway, waiting for the elevator, he's trying to stop her. If you watch the scene, she's touching, rubbing her cheek . Just before the director called action and out of camera range, Dustin slapped her.

Didn't Nicholson, make a comment about it, I think it was at Hoffman's AFI tribute. I think he said something, jokingly, "I wish I'd thought of that."

[saffy199]

fuck you dustin!

he was sittin there so smug!!! god i hate people like that, meryl is amazing forever!!

[XBridX]

My God he is a good actor at LYING!!!!!!

[WaryRox]

Now that she is the Meryl Streep, he can't wait to take some credit for her success as if such a great actress would have ever escaped being truly discovered.

I don't buy his sudden change of heart all of a sudden. He's just now trying to hitch his wagon to her star, especially that she has now resurged at 59 and they are all now flailing around for a little attention.

[illusionistdave]

@WaryRox Actually she's not that great, and she's very unattractive. I think he's being rather kind.

[Love4MerylStreep]

GOD I LOVE THAT WOMAN! Dustin is wonderful to talk about her so highly. She is truly the best! Thanks for posting!!

[RoseLippedMaiden]

Dont think Ive ever heard Dustin talk so positive about Meryl before...

[GETOSUPASTAR]

Me either @RoseLippedMaiden I heard in a biography special on Meryl that he couldn't stand her and that they didnt get along @ all...and thats why they never worked together again after "K v. K"....