Dustin Hoffman Is Himself

5 months ago 04th Jun 13:30

Dustin Hoffman tried to play himself in his new movie.

The actor - who appears alongside Emma Thompson in 'Last Chance Harvey' - says it is not as easy as people think for him to play a character who shares so many of his real-life attributes.

He said: "Emma Thompson and I realised we had something in common - we're both character actors, which means you're not good-looking enough to be the lead! So we said, 'Why don't we play this as close to ourselves as anything we've ever done?'

I never argue with people, even friends, who say, 'Oh, you just walked through 'Meet the Fockers'

"I never argue with people, even friends, who say, 'Oh, you just walked through 'Meet the Fockers'. Oh, you were just yourself in 'Last Chance Harvey', you just walked through that!' The truth is that every movie is difficult."

The actor also admitted he never expected to land his breakthrough role in 'The Graduate'.

He added to Time Out magazine: "In those days I hung out with Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman and we were certain we were never going to be romantic leads. We just hoped to be character actors who could earn enough to make a living for the rest of our lives. When 'The Graduate' came about, I didn't even want to try for it. I'd read the book and I thought it was a role made for Robert Redford. I was always going up for "character juvenile" roles - which meant you weren't attractive!"