Turns out he might have been a more brilliant actor than anyone ever imagined.
Via Daily Mail:
No other Hollywood star has proved quite so brilliant at playing vulnerable, hugely sympathetic characters as Dustin Hoffman.
Be it the nervous young college graduate snared by the rapacious older woman in The Graduate, the autistic savant in Rain Man or done up in drag and batting off the attentions of lecherous men in Tootsie, he rarely takes a role that doesn’t invite audiences to root for the ‘little guy’.
Sadly, screen roles can be deceptive.
Hoffman is now cast as a predatory monster, submerged under a stream of sordid allegations of sexual misconduct.
In recent days, five women have claimed the Oscar-winning star groped and abused them when they were as young as 15 – adding their voices to previous damning accounts about his behaviour.
Hoffman, 80, has yet personally to respond, although his lawyer has dismissed the allegations as ‘defamatory falsehoods’. The stories have been piling up – and getting increasingly more damaging – since last month, when he was accused of sexually harassing a 17-year-old production assistant.
‘I am sorry,’ the actor, well-known for his liberal views, said at the time, insisting he had the ‘utmost respect for women’ and felt ‘terrible for anything I might have done’. It was not, he added, ‘reflective of who I am’. But since then more women have begged to differ, offering their own ‘reflections’ on his treatment of women.