The two-time winner of the Oscar Award, Dustin Hoffman (89), remembered in Conan O’Brien’s podst on the night the husband of the woman with whom he had an extramarital relationship found him in bed and pointed a gun at him.
The Hollywood actor spoke of the embarrassing incident from his youth Monday at the Podcaster Connan O’Brien Needs A Friends. Hoffman said she was in a relationship with a married woman who invited her to visit after her husband fell asleep.
I had a relationship with a married woman. She thought that once her husband fell asleep, he would stay with her, Hoffman said.
That night, as he said, the man woke up again and entered the room with a gun in his hand.
I was invited to come after he fell asleep. And here we were… We had some kind of festival and he came in with a gun. He guided me and I remember him saying: Out, out, the actor remembered.
Hoffman also described what he felt as he looked down at the gun barrel.
When you run a gun, first of all, that hole looks much bigger than it really is. You realize he’ll pull the trigger any second. His finger is on the trigger and he thinks he’ll do it every second. You know, it was, I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, next second, next second. And you would do anything, do anything to not get killed, he added.
When O’Brien jokingly asked how it all ended, if he jumped out of the window or ran away, Hoffman replied that the festival ‘%s’ did not go on that night.
Memories and hard footage of The Graduate
The actor was in the podcast to promote his memories, “Look at Meé, which went on sale on November 10th. Before publishing the book, Hoffman found in an essay about The New Yorker that shooting the film that changed the life of The Graduate (1967) was a terrible experience for him.
I felt like Mike Nichols was angry with me all the time, or because I was doing something wrong or because he realized what everyone else knew already, that he had played the wrong part in his movie, Hoffman wrote.
In the movie, he played Benjamin Braddock, a young man seduced by a Mrs. The elderly Anne Bancroft and then falls in love with her daughter, Elaine (Kathary Ross). For this role, he received his first nomination for the Oscar Award, but the award went to Rod Steiger in 1968 for the film The Heat of the Night.