In 1979, Kramer vs. Kramer was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as divorcing couple Ted and Joanna Kramer, the legal drama about a child custody battle won five Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (Streep), Directing (Robert Benton), and Writing (Benton).
Varietyranked Kramer vs. Kramer among the 100 greatest movies of all time, describing it as “piercingly perceptive grown-up filmmaking, all too rare today,” on a list topped by classics such as Psycho, The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, and Citizen Kane.
The film’s subject matter was all too real for Hoffman, who was going through a difficult divorce from his first wife, Anne Byrne, at the time.
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In the 2001 documentary Finding The Truth: The Making of Kramer vs. Kramer, Hoffman recalled how his personal life affected his role in the film.
"It was the first time I ever made a movie where I was living through what I was acting, unlike a writer or painter, who gets up in the morning and can exorcise what they're going through," he explained. “It's quite unusual to be getting a divorce, my first and only divorce, at the time I'm shooting a movie about a man getting a divorce."
Hoffman seemingly let his real-life emotions get to him while filming a pivotal scene with Streep, where Ted violently tosses a glass of wine at Joanna, smashing the glass against a wall. According to Turner Classic Movies, the unscripted moment was “a real moment of frustration from Hoffman and Streep's reaction is genuine.” The actor had reportedly been agitated with Streep and Benton while shooting the scene.
In the documentary, Hoffman admitted, "I'm sure I was acting out on [Streep] throughout the movie. Stuff that I was feeling toward the wife that I was divorcing in real life.”
“She was pissed," he added of Streep's reaction to the impromptu wine glass scene.
Meryl Streep said Dustin Hoffman ‘overstepped’
Streep never worked with Hoffman again after Kramer vs. Kramer. In 2018, she told the New York Times that the actor slapped her during filming to make her performance more authentic.
“This is tricky because when you’re an actor, you’re in a scene, you have to feel free,” Streep shared. “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 first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping.”
The Oscar-winning actress added that such a move would never fly today. “I think those things are being corrected in this moment. And they’re not politically corrected, they’re fixed,” she said. “They will be fixed, because people won’t accept it anymore. So that’s a good thing.”
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