It was in 1967, when the legendary actor Dustin Hoffman had his breakthrough at the age of 30, with The Graduate. As years went by, Hoffman starred in All the President’s Men and 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer.
When it was 1983, Hoffman starred in “Tootsie,” which he played a man who is acting like a woman for a chance to be in a soap opera. “If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible, and they said to me, ‘That’s as good as it gets.’ Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you,” Hoffman said of the movie.
The 86-year-old actor shared that it was an upsetting thing to learn that he was not pretty. “I went home and started crying,” he said.
“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 women have to have in order for us to ask them out.”
When it was 2013, Hoffman stayed away from the spotlight. Later, his representative, Jodi Gottlieb, revealed that Hoffman had fought with cancer and won.
“It was detected early, and he has been surgically cured,” Gottlieb said. “Dustin is feeling great and is in good health.”
Hoffman was 75 when he received his diagnosis, and decided to fight it off silently, as he needed to stay calm and focus on his health.
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