Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation
It’s not clear that there were roles Philip Seymour Hoffman could not do. He had so many lives within him—and more, undiscovered and unseen. Those are the lives, aside from his own, we’ve now lost. “For me, acting is torturous,” Hoffman told the New York Times in 2008, “and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, That’s beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great—well, that’s absolutely torturous.”
Love Liza is one of my favorites.
i felt/feel it deeply. it hit me wrong.
the first day of it of course, there was that whole thing of the police announcing that he’d been found with a needle in his arm. “announced anonymously due to the little requirement that his family hadn’t been notified yet.”
ignorant swine.
besides, “A Most Wanted Man”, he’s got a couple more forthcoming.
i liked his character in “Magnolia”.
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