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hey that's what and what the flick where at talk about Philip Seymour Hoffman who
died over the weekend which was just
devastating to I love us and anybody who ever saw
any film he was an and I was so taken aback by
and it horrible the way he died have taken aback by the reaction
not just from people in our world bet everybody I know
had some movie they loved him and he was so versatile he has depth talent
it's just I'm still so bummed about that yeah I feel like it's exaggerating to
say that he was
one of the great American actor of his generation I mean
you look at his IMDB page is a roster of stuff
I mean I you know I think like a lot of people I sort of meant I'm gonna learn
that guys name
when I saw Boogie Nights but then I realized no way I'd tournament twister a
team in in nobody's fool and you know all these other films
into the lead a woman um you know and just
I so I
we know we either the famous peaceably talked about %uh the uncool speech from
from almost famous
and bun cool is summer the best stuff that hoffman had to offer I mean he was
so
not concerned about looking good on screen or being nice or being liked
and be called up to just sort of emotional nakedness that anybody could
relate to because
anytime that that you know you bet your most vulnerable or your or your worst or
things that you regret or or things you wish you gone differently that when you
put in your performance and you would see it made manifest in a way that was
so brave
and so human and relevant and meaningful and
just you know i i be he was one of my
my favorite living actors and I'm just devastated the we're not gonna get
another 30 years of work for him about humanity to the creeps in the friction
the out cat the people who read we wouldn't want to look at but
new he made you want to know more about you know more so than
yes true but more so than creeps in freaks and outcasts
just regular people you ignore you know
like just that they work they didn't have to be free cash it's almost easier
to play
freaks that it is to play the guy who you see every hour
your average he made average I thought really interesting and
and I i listen to a couple are ready skinny couple interviews with director
should work for them
botch and they were such similarity in the way
they describe things about how they'd have a way to play a
seen can grow it have an idea of how he wanted a scene played
and and an offer would do something
so completely different without you know he didn't say
just did it right and he was always willing to take
the take direction but did so completely differently
any and and grow would say and you would like that that didn't was in the range
up ways I thought it could be done right it so clearly
better what we're what we're going to the the actor James Urbaniak
wrote a really great piece on line I'm forget where but it's easy to Google
we talked about what he learned from losing a role the top see more of a news
it was auditioning for some like one-act play it was like a character like a
troll the closet and
he's ordered a certain way and he was talking to is like it
a dream think I'm doing yeah you know i i his extraordinary I
you know it's its shocking to
do something like that because yes what we can do that he got back into rehab he
was having I had
it had he had he was a pretty Prime died had been huge news
I and its you know would we do what we do like you hear about somebody dying a
celebrity dying or
her attacker someone and you know they're certain people that
to take you off guard and like you said it's someone that you wanted to see
another 30 years avid it would be
you know came to loot you don't cover this happens you know by Paul Giamatti
right i mean i i you look back on what happened was doing and you can see what
would happen
give we haven't lost on israeli sorely right I mean it's I feel like
hoppin was doing very similar watkins et Li was doing in that
he would play in these characters that that other actors might make
loathsome and bring a humanity to them you know cuz ily makes
I Prado a real person
and the Godfather movies and would be easy somebody could come into play Prado
and just making Mike out he's a joke right-handed atmosphere
you know and that's what happened to do I think often you know at his best would
take
allotted characters that you would be throwaway characters
and he would bring a humanity to them
you know and I know that that cliche to say but it was it was something that
would
improved any movie he wasn't just by his presence it ok to ask your doctor is
running on TCM now there's a up
a nice quote in the screen writing section from my sound by the screen
reading section
from Clooney who says look at all you know it starts for the screenplay
if you don't have a good screenplay you can make a good movie it's never
happened
it's never there's never been a good movie made from bad screenplays
and I'm I'm sorry I don't really disagree with that but
Hoffman seemed to a poll so many movies
out of just complete at the bare minimum
ordinariness write something that you like a movie I don't really like Wallace
run came Polly
like along came Polly like pirate radio which maybe you guys like but I
you know I but like but you can't but he so what are his wife
so good and I am you know and then there are movies that
that made them I among my favorite movies a year movies like
Charlie Wilson's War and and there so many times that my memory is a Charlie
Wilson's War which I'll watch again I'm sure in the in the coming weeks
but where he doesn't speak and I'll
where there's a part like I feel like that guy got pausing
yeah better than anybody because it was like
you know sometimes when actors recite lines you get the sense that their
reciting them because they were ready for the many seem to be
doing what I do all the time what so many others do which is way that way
what's the word I'm looking for what I tried to say and how do I say it well
and quickly
gonna tell like like this 100 game sequel right
he even if you think in the half-dozen themes maybe as the game's maker
and if we talk about a great mentor he's dancing with Jennifer Lawrence and the
unexpected
Twitter he makes their but the thing where he tell dollars other men like
what the game plan should be
it ended deadpan kinda monotone and its chilling like a total area of that also
frightening at the same time
so he can give profit of the where they like a lot tell me that the Hunger Games
the absolutely big action they are you know he can play like zorro
oily the you know creepy guys we can also play
kinda rich preppy is you know he put on a baseball uniform in Moneyball and
totally over there yeah lol I and II
you know I before the devil knows you're dead a movie I love the 90 people saw
civic in New York which is like when my favorite films about the last you know
that twenty-year
at it II I missed it man couldn't figure it out
I was baffled by maybe feel stupid right so
and now I feel like I have to see it but the back is so many people talk about it
after he died and I
you know i i got I knew it I was seeing it
that I was messy like I got I like this is not terrible
it's just terrible for someone to make sold my going on right now I don't get
it out yeah I love it either but now in retrospect like the intertwining a Dr
in death and have they're both tormenting if he was very poignant
and buying a minute what's the movie where he's the gambler the Baker the Cup
again when pro
a only mahoney oh and I'll that's what you feel about addiction and I don't
have you were administered to look at that as attorneys in performance RAM
yet like interest to see a guy drowning in his addiction for this
yes that's lameta yeah hey into red hoping director jack goes boating which
I thought was
really strong first film a you know he took
a play and opened it up in a way that was very organic didn't feel forced
4 really strong performances his included I
would have loved to see more of him by the camera away I A
I remember I dug up my review the DVD when it came out
and I so love and I complain about the bike there was no director commentary
it's like like the idea I feel like a great guy and I don't know in this is
totally anecdotal but my sense is that
that you mentioned I and II and I think it was a personal there was a little bit
on the slow
reveal reaction to his death like first it was all this young actor is very
talented
and then is that maybe honestly maybe because it was the Super Bowl get out
but
and as the days went on it was like Oh no way the matter
more than we had even acknowledged it
and I you read about the way other actors
talk about pic to me two people stand out and obviously I haven't
there are more but like I don't know that I've ever read actors as respectful
love and two peoples Daniel day-lewis until two more often the way they talked
about having worked with them how was like
it's a different game right when they read it at and you know so I'm not
saying there with the two
greatest but they're like cats look it over it's a pretty small group that
senate that they can be included in a conversation
with with Daniel day-lewis when you're talking about how other actors
respect but they didn't know they were talking about this and we sorta Gary
Lewis love the Brits add to the conversation but as far as
American actors for me and for this generation its hochman engine mounting
they're the guys and and now we lost forty can you pick up their performance
I
got me on Twitter it's impossible to pick one how do you mean
II I you know I because I was making New York so much
and I think that he runs the gamut and and and it has a water too tight wire in
a ride that the movie that I've been kinda
point people do but you know there's there's
20 movies that you can point to the like these is extraordinary often work I
would say
maybe the master sure it is so
frightening in commanding but again like he's created Meganite tea is great
and the hell yeah desperately yeah owning all happy to have a great
real analyze him you know for me I get up those what he does on the Charlie
Wilson's War again fall asleep when he doesn't follow us and and
hadn't takes that character out of the cliche oh yeah I know that movie doesn't
deserve it but it was
graded and there are a lot of movies that didn't deserve you
yeah and he makes them legitimate right
and you know and and almost names you notice is not know that I mean it's
small
but it's great 10 personnel
either but thanks