Known for going to extremes for a role, Dustin Hoffman once stayed awake for two straight days to get into character for Marathon Man. But when it comes to the cocaine that flowed through 1970s Hollywood, the 89-year-old says his own body made the decision for him.
Appearing on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Hoffman recalled the party scene of that era without hedging. “That was a time when you went to a party and there were lines of coke on a table,” he told O’Brien. “Everybody snorted, I did.”
He didn’t soften his verdict on the drug either, calling it “the greatest drug in the world.” Then he explained why he stopped. “Thank God I’m allergic because I couldn’t breathe after that,” he said. “I was allergic to it or I wouldn’t be here now.”
The admission came as Hoffman discussed making Marathon Man, the 1976 thriller in which he starred opposite Laurence Olivier, who, Hoffman said, knew he was dying during the shoot. He described the film’s producer, Robert Evans, as a genius “when there wasn’t coke coming out of his nose.” Evans, who died in 2019 at 89, pleaded guilty to cocaine charges in 1980 and later joked that he would be known as “Bob ‘Cocaine’ Evans” to his grave.
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The cocaine story wasn’t Hoffman’s only frank moment. He told O’Brien he has dealt with acne his entire life and still treats it today. “I take Accutane three times a week,” he revealed, adding, “I’m 89 and I still have lifelong acne.”
He connected the condition to how uncomfortable he felt after The Graduate made him a star overnight. Hoffman has described that shoot as “a terrible experience” in his new memoir, and on the podcast he recalled vowing never to make another movie once it wrapped.
He also offered a candid explanation for why he keeps a handkerchief within reach. “One of the things about being my age, which is 89, is that you lose the sensitivity at the tip of your nose,” he said. “So, it’s dripping and you don’t know it.”
The conversation coincides with the Nov. 10 release of Look at Me, Hoffman’s memoir written with New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy. Hoffman credited Levy with getting the book finished after years of false starts, saying he had filled “20, 30 notebooks” trying to write it on his own. During the writing, he said, she was “the most important person in my life.”
O’Brien told listeners that a second part of the interview would arrive later this week. When the memoir was announced, Hoffman said he had spent decades wanting to write it, and his conversation with O’Brien suggests he is holding very little back.
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