The time Sir Laurence Olivier politely sonned Dustin Hoffman

[mr x]

As legend has it, Olivier (a classically trained stage actor) and Hoffman had the following exchange during the shoot.

“How did your week go, dear boy,” Olivier said.

Hoffman told him that he had filmed a scene in which his character was supposed to have been up for three days straight.

“So what did you do?” Olivier asked.

“Well, I stayed up for three days and three nights.”

Laurence Olivier then uttered this famous line, “Why don’t you just try acting?”



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I just watched part of that scene again yesterday and then something occurred to me. Oliver was born in 1907 and so lived through the last global pandemic. In other words, we had, and still have living experience of people who already went through worse than what we are going through now. The question is why and how did we not prepare for another outbreak? Are our rulers that blind?

Anyway, this is about film so I will leave it at that.

Oh and **bump**

 

[downtheline]

I'd recommend watching The Boys From Brazil if you are looking for a movie in the similar vein of Marathon Man. Laurence Olivier is in it as well.




Ira Levin wrote both of the movies, they were books originally.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Dustin Hoffman is crazy overrated

 

[old pig]

damn lol

 

[HipHopStan]

Dustin Hoffman is crazy overrated

I've read that he's notoriously difficult to work with.



John Oliver hitting him with the hard questions and he got all pissy.

 

[downtheline]

Dustin Hoffman is crazy overrated

I agree with you on that. He's a good actor, but I would not put him in the same tier as the group of actors he came up with.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Laurence Olivier was a bad boy with that acting shyt

 

[HipHopStan]

Reminds me of that story from Guys and Dolls where Marlon Brando tried to give Frank Sinatra some method acting advice and Frank replied back with, "Listen, I don't do that method shyt. I stand where the director tells me to stand, I'll say my lines, and we can go to the next take. "