When Dustin Hoffman began acting, his aunt warned him "You can't be an actor. You are not good-looking enough."
When discussing “The Graduate,” his first starring role, Life magazine joked that "if Dustin Hoffman's face were his fortune, he'd be committed to a life of poverty".
Well, it turns out that Hoffman became one of the greats, what else would make of a filmography that includes The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, All the Presidents Men, Marathon Man, Straight Time, Kramer v Kramer, Tootsie, and Rain Man.
I haven’t really seen Hoffman in a movie since, probably, his excellent turn in 2017’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” but that all soon will change as he’s been cast in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”
The news comes from a casting call for Coppola’s film which requests stand-ins for Adam Driver, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Shia Laboeuf, Forest Whitaker and, you guessed it, Hoffman.
Coppola is pretty ballsy casting Jon Voight, LaBoeuf and Hoffman in his own movie. He’s risking a critical wrath. Know what? Who cares. He’s funding the film with his own damn money, they are solid actors and “Megalopolis” will speak for itself.
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