Streep can never forget being ‘slapped’ by Hoffman on ‘Kramer vs Kramer’ set
MERYL Streep has recalled Dustin Hoffman slapping her during a scene on ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ and admits she always felt he overstepped the boundaries as an actor with his action.
Streep, 68, starred alongside Hoffman, 80, in one of her earliest fi lms with her performance in the 1979 drama earning her the best Supporting Actress Oscar.
But Streep can never forget that on her fi rst day on set being spontaneously struck by her costar and although she can accept that Hoffman was in character and committed to his art she feels that his action would not be acceptable during a shoot now.
Speaking to The New York Times, Streep said: “That was when we were making ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’. This is tricky because when you’re an actor, you’re in a scene, you have to feel free. I’m sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes. But there’s a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my fi rst movie, and it was my fi rst take in my fi rst movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping. But I think those things are being corrected in this moment. And they’re not politically correct; they’re fi xed. They will be fi xed, because people won’t accept it anymore. So that’s a good thing.”
Hoffman, 80, has recently been accused by Anna Graham Hunter, who worked as an intern on his movie ‘ Death of a Salesman’ in 1985, of sexually harassing her on the set 32 years ago. — BANG Showbiz