aboysbestfriendishismother:Dustin Hoffman on playing a woman in Tootsie (1982)“If I was going
aboysbestfriendishismother:Dustin Hoffman on playing a woman in Tootsie (1982)“If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill, physically, the demands that we’re brought up to think that women have to have in order for us to ask them out.’ She says, ‘What are you saying?’ and I said, ‘There’s too many interesting women I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.’ It was not what it felt like to be a woman. It was what it felt like to be someone that people didn’t respect, for the wrong reasons. I know it’s a comedy. But comedy’s a serious business.”I try to tell people that sometimes the most poignant films in the entire world are comedies and it pains me that people don’t see that sometimes because they think comedies are only there to make people laugh.The fact is that they’re also there to make us think, and sometimes it takes a comedian to point out what’s ridiculous with the world and actually make us get it. This, above all, is why I love comedy so much and idolize comedians over a lot of other historical figures. They see the world more clearly than most human beings and they make us laugh at how messed up things really are - and oftentimes that’s when we realize that we need to make changes within ourselves.…and I just hijacked this post with a comedy rant thingy, whoops. -- source link
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