Remembering the late, impossibly great Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I never saw a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance I didn’t love. That is a rare thing to say about an actor, even a great one, because very few performers go through their careers without making a misstep or two, without taking on a role unworthy of their talent or being handed awful material and finding themselves unable to rise above it. Hoffman wasn’t a God – he occasionally took underwhelming parts or starred in bad films, but the difference between Hoffman and many other great modern performers was that he had the uncanny ability to do stupendous, finely observed, deeply lived-in work no matter the circumstances. In his great movies, like
Remembering the late, impossibly great Philip Seymour Hoffman
Remembering the late, impossibly great Philip…
Remembering the late, impossibly great Philip Seymour Hoffman
I never saw a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance I didn’t love. That is a rare thing to say about an actor, even a great one, because very few performers go through their careers without making a misstep or two, without taking on a role unworthy of their talent or being handed awful material and finding themselves unable to rise above it. Hoffman wasn’t a God – he occasionally took underwhelming parts or starred in bad films, but the difference between Hoffman and many other great modern performers was that he had the uncanny ability to do stupendous, finely observed, deeply lived-in work no matter the circumstances. In his great movies, like