I can't help but think what a shame. What a shame we couldn't somehow save him. Mr Hoffman was such a talent. He also appeared to be a caring and giving individual.
Addiction is a most unpleasant medical condition, but he hardly needed “saving”, I agree. I wish he’d been around longer to enjoy his work, but at least he’s out of all that. He’d be the only one to decide if he wanted anymore of this, though. Love him, what a master, he lives forever!
Wow, brutal. No mercy here. The guy was only in his 40s and left three kids behind. I don’t believe “we” could have saved him, but addiction isn’t a choice, and he hardly “lived his life.” He was self-medicating some type of pain, and succumbed to it. After living sober for over 20 years. Wish he’d quit show biz instead. RIP.
Hoffman was the most fascinating man I’ve ever listened to being that he was an actor. I’m not easily impressed by actors especially their personal lives or personalities, but Hoffman I could not get enough of just listening to him talk and be himself. So complex and nuanced. Utterly fascinating. What a loss. Rip Philip Hoffman.
I've just spent the last two days watching all the tributes and interviews of PSH on TH-cam and this is by far the best. If you want to know the how and why he was so great, it is revealved here. You get to intimately know the artist and the man and it just makes his passing all the more heartbreaking. My tears are real.
@Lisa Surlie You don't measure up to shit, bitch. When you die, nobody will remember you. I've seen your other comments on other PSH posts. You're an annoying troll, and you have nothing to say that has any value in it whatsoever.
@Jeanne McCarthy Agreed. He's one of the greatest theater and film actors of all-time. That bitch is just an ignorant troll. She's posted on other PSH videos. It's disgusting to slander a person after they've passed away.
'Capote' was released to great acclaim, particularly regarding Hoffman's performance with many critics commenting that the role was designed to win awards, and indeed Hoffman received an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA and various other critics' awards. In 2006, Premiere listed his role in Capote as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time.
Lisa Surlie I’m getting ready to call the half way house and tell them to take away your computer privileges. Retards should have limited access to computers.
Look at this..his interviews are awesome..it's this guys presence. the talented Mr. Ripley, Red Dragon, Patch Adams, Twister, Mission Impossible III, Charlie Wilson's War, etc, etc....
Would have enjoyed more close-ups on Mr. Hoffman's exquisitely refined mug but nonetheless a rewarding and revealing interview on the late great Philip Seymour. Thank you
For the most part I think most people get lost when viewing actors and actresses. To me it’s the same as factory workers in that it’s a lifestyle where the workers show up hoping for advancement but often caught up in the day to day drudgery where alcohol and or drugs numb vast emptiness of daily life.
the end story about how he chose acting how it made him feel to feel so much watching theater and him running to it. it made me cry. i miss his magic still i miss him making me believe something was happening that wasn't. i just can't believe he died so young the way he did. drug overdose the new holocaust.
I loved that as well and him describing Heath's performance in Monster's Ball was exactly how I felt and knew at that moment he was going to be one of the greats. Brokeback Mountain confirmed that.
Miss him and his performances a lot. It's extremely tragic he was not able to receive the relief he received from drugs from life itself. But I am being selfish, as a big fan. Perhaps this was just the way it was supposed to be.
''Nobody and everybody deserves sympathy.'' That is true. A libra is very neet, never dirty fingernails for Capote, but actually Philip was not that meticulous ever. This is just a proof of that even a great actor is not perfect. Nobody's perfect. Yeah, lots of money is changing your life. Unfortunately the down side of it is more money for alcohol and drug.
He was very talented and was able to be sober for over 20yrs which is amazibg in itself but his downfall was he thought he could a single drink or two now and than which was a huge red flag and lead to his addiction again and it got out of control. The only person who can stop it is them overall. No one else can save the person. It's a horrible disease. Sad that he left behind 3 children who will not have their father. Luckily, we do have hus films 🎥 to remember him.
this is the ultimate Phil S Hoffman interview, i think He is so honest here, and I don't think he was high in 06. I read that he relapsed before he died, dont quote me on that though.
Henry Osborne Isn’t there a TH-cam “report” button for this weirdo Lisa? I don’t get it. She is too immature to recognize a thought provoking interview.
Yes. And no one locked him down when they knew he had purchased heroin. He told as a cry for help. And no one went to court and put him in lock down in rehab. He was incapable at that point of choosing not to do what he did.
I think he suffered from depression. That is no wonder. It is no wonder because he had to bear up against a lot of pressure. Here in Germany depression is also known as "Die deutsche Krankheit". Considering that Hoffman had German ancestors and that in Germany the suicide rate is higher than in other industrialised countries it is surely a bit of a negative inheritance that he also had to fight against....
+Yana Oh yeah. All drug addicts. We'ree talking 99.9% of drug addicts suffer from depression. He was a heroin addict and he struggled with depression his whole life.
Which statistics on suicide are you referring to? Germany is NOT on top of the list on the statistic you mention. If you mean transgenerational mental health issues I would rather relate it to him being jewish (which I don‘t care if he was). There is correlation between narcissism, depression and drugs that is still very wage. Please be more precise about what you mean.
i m German too, why are you talking such lies n BS on Germany s depression rate?! Probably one of them fake-woke leftist SJWs inventing stuff to fit your sick AGENDA and to sh*t on people n countries you despise. 🤣🤣
He, always seemed like he'd drove down the wrong, One Way Street. Forever seeking a script telling him how to live real life, and yet never finding it. Nonetheless ,the hunt was always there. I miss Him.
Celebrity-loss of anonymity resulting in paranoid feelings (ie others staring at him, possibly wanting to fight him) fueled addiction. Fame is a heavy burden.
Terrible thing done for money and ego enhancement. Not good. Hoffman could have made a decision to get out for awhile. Go to the country. Don't stay in the West Village. Bad decision. Change. Stop. You CAN come back and do things worth doing if you are healthy. Take a bath, man. Wash your hair. Self-care is not there. Never enough ? Right.
The real Capote was Superstitious ! And all his life he believed in Fortune Tellers ! So if he was Cursed then he may have passed that Curse on to PSH ! R.I.P. ❤🙏
He did a great job, but the movie left me asking.. why? Why was Truman Capote celebrated in any way? He betrayed an innocent man's trust and kept lying to him saying he'd help him, all the while he didn't do a thing to help the man get out, he just used him for a book. It's disgusting. He was an awful person. Rest in hell, Capote.
@@roc7880 That's a nice story of him to tell, but the truth is he used a man in prison, gave him false hope, made him think he was helping him in court.. all the while he was just using him for material for a book.. Again, I don't understand why Capote was celebrated, or why this movie was even made.. after watching it, I'm left saying... "Damn, Truman Capote was a piece of shit". It was a well made well acted movie though.
@bad1dobby I don't think I've lost my perspective, but you have done a pretty good job of explaining things. Seems like I didn't understand his earlier work, and that's why people liked him. I assumed people knew he was using this man. I'm gonna maintain, Capote was a shitty person for giving false hope to a man in prison, but you make a pretty good point about him being innocent.
Nandi...She's a very good interviewer, Phd, author & film scholar. Who cares that she is wearing a vest with the name of the concert hall on it? Be grateful for the interview & stop being an obnoxious American.
I could say Philip Seymour was a selfish idiot who deprived the world of his talent. Then again, who am I to judge? I'm so, so sorry his pain, boredom or whatever, was so unbearable for him, that he couldn't endure it.
That's because he's still high on the heroin during this interview. You should see an addict 24 hours after not being able to get high. He'd have been a crying, screaming, shitting, vomiting mess.
Capote really was a creep. Yes, he had been locked in rooms by his mother. But he did not create the first nonfiction novel. I could have done without his books.
The world is a less brighter place without this man on it, he's so sadly missed.
I can't help but think what a shame. What a shame we couldn't somehow save him. Mr Hoffman was such a talent. He also appeared to be a caring and giving individual.
Save him? From what!!! He lived his life Most just go through the motions.
Addiction is a most unpleasant medical condition, but he hardly needed “saving”, I agree. I wish he’d been around longer to enjoy his work, but at least he’s out of all that. He’d be the only one to decide if he wanted anymore of this, though. Love him, what a master, he lives forever!
We? It was his choice to succumb to drugs. If he needed saving, he could’ve saved himself.
You don't understand addiction.@@tonycantu3491
Wow, brutal. No mercy here. The guy was only in his 40s and left three kids behind. I don’t believe “we” could have saved him, but addiction isn’t a choice, and he hardly “lived his life.” He was self-medicating some type of pain, and succumbed to it. After living sober for over 20 years. Wish he’d quit show biz instead. RIP.
He should have received many, many, many more awards for his incredible acting.... So miss this wonderful actor.
Hoffman was the most fascinating man I’ve ever listened to being that he was an actor. I’m not easily impressed by actors especially their personal lives or personalities, but Hoffman I could not get enough of just listening to him talk and be himself. So complex and nuanced. Utterly fascinating. What a loss. Rip Philip Hoffman.
I've just spent the last two days watching all the tributes and interviews of PSH on TH-cam and this is by far the best. If you want to know the how and why he was so great, it is revealved here. You get to intimately know the artist and the man and it just makes his passing all the more heartbreaking. My tears are real.
@Lisa Surlie You don't measure up to shit, bitch. When you die, nobody will remember you. I've seen your other comments on other PSH posts. You're an annoying troll, and you have nothing to say that has any value in it whatsoever.
Lisa Surlie
You again?
Agree completely! Please read my comments with a dedication to PSH.
@Jeanne McCarthy Agreed. He's one of the greatest theater and film actors of all-time. That bitch is just an ignorant troll. She's posted on other PSH videos. It's disgusting to slander a person after they've passed away.
@Jeanne McCarthy Yes! Like wtf? She said "I want to see his dead body." She's sick in the head!
Rest in peace Phillip. A great actor gone too soon. Love you.
His speaking voice is very comforting
GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS. I miss him so much. Makes you want to cry.
❤Phillip Seymour Hoffman a Great Actor.
He was so great as an actor. We were all robbed when he died
It's deeply tragic Philip died young but he left an impressive body of work. He's still my favorite actor of all time.
He was one of my favorite actors
Such a loss. One of my favorites. Amazing talent.
Such a tremendous actor. He had so many more wonderful performances in him to give.
'Capote' was released to great acclaim, particularly regarding Hoffman's performance with many critics commenting that the role was designed to win awards, and indeed Hoffman received an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA and various other critics' awards. In 2006, Premiere listed his role in Capote as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time.
Fabulous interview. So glad we have this. Thanks to all involved.
Io👏uui👏uui❤️
Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a huge loss.
Great guy. Great actor. Great interview and great questions.
I actually acted in a commercial that PSH directed. Highlight of my life and career. RIP 🎭🏆📚❤️
Great interview. Really good interviewer too. RIP Phil.
Lisa Surlie
I’m getting ready to call the half way house and tell them to take away your computer privileges. Retards should have limited access to computers.
What a horrible horrible thing to say. Debra Bader
I was replying to Lisa Surlies comment. Debra Bader
Look at this..his interviews are awesome..it's this guys presence. the talented Mr. Ripley, Red Dragon, Patch Adams, Twister, Mission Impossible III, Charlie Wilson's War, etc, etc....
He was a amazing actor and seemed like such a kind and cool person.
... do you remember “ Doubt” -
Where he plays a Catholic priest ?
It was phenomenal ..
@@BarbaraMerryGeng
Doubt was an awesome movie! 🎉
Art mirrors life sometimes. Very sad. So many gone from addiction
He committed suicide. Not the same thing
@margyrowland Seymour's drug-taking was a long suicide?
I love his honesty about the messiness of becoming this character.
Thank you for posting! It was the best interview I have ever seen on TH-cam on Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Love this man
Would have enjoyed more close-ups on Mr. Hoffman's exquisitely refined mug but nonetheless a rewarding and revealing interview on the late great Philip Seymour. Thank you
God - i miss him
I miss him so much
He was a genius. One of the greats. If only he really knew.
Loved this.
He was a great actor because he was suffering himself, so that made him empathetic toward others. No great acting without it.
@Lisa Surlie junkies are often great artists... so what.... same goes for the spoiled
@Lisa Surlie miles davis.. bill evans... maybe get better music taste
🐂
Try Dulcalax.
I love how he is thinking about what he will say before he will open his mouth, he was the opposite of a star.
For the most part I think most people get lost when viewing actors and actresses. To me it’s the same as factory workers in that it’s a lifestyle where the workers show up hoping for advancement but often caught up in the day to day drudgery where alcohol and or drugs numb vast emptiness of daily life.
Very well put.
Miss him here with us. Hope hes acting up in heaven.
I hope he just…is…peaceful, as compassionate as he was in life, and of course, loved enough…
When he was talking about celebrity and how it's killed actors. 💔
Oh Man! Just watched this in 2024 - a few days from his birthday. A strange foreknowledge.
22:07, I didn't expect to laugh so hard! He was a dynamo, fantastic actor "I gained it back."
the end story about how he chose acting how it made him feel to feel so much watching theater and him running to it. it made me cry. i miss his magic still i miss him making me believe something was happening that wasn't. i just can't believe he died so young the way he did. drug overdose the new holocaust.
So sad to hear him talking about Heath Ledger- they both should have made so many more movies. We need to take better care of people.
Guess you knew him since acting nursery?
I loved that as well and him describing Heath's performance in Monster's Ball was exactly how I felt and knew at that moment he was going to be one of the greats. Brokeback Mountain confirmed that.
People need to take better care of themselves. No one is responsible for me or my choices. 🙂
It’s interesting that he brings up addiction , suicide & celebrity , almost predicting the tragedy that would befall him.
Su hermosa voz...
Miss him and his performances a lot. It's extremely tragic he was not able to receive the relief he received from drugs from life itself. But I am being selfish, as a big fan. Perhaps this was just the way it was supposed to be.
Sweet dreams, Mr. Hoffman.
I miss him.
Ci manchi tanto
34:35 "and I won't be there"
sheeeesh
He was in his forties in this interview? Giant's right, someone in 40s already envisioning age of death as being in 60s is a warning sign.
@@theminotaurs I think he meant he wouldn't be there because he wouldn't want to hear the things they would say.
@@theminotaurs He was 38 here
@@nickthomas6827 Might be right, someone anticipating dying might say " I won't be around" rather than "I won't be there"
In hindsight, the moment he talks about losing anonymity and being with in one’s own thoughts gets lost… wonder? ❤❤
Both Capote and Hoffman were hungry ghosts and we all lost so, so terribly as a consequence.
What?
''Nobody and everybody deserves sympathy.'' That is true. A libra is very neet, never dirty fingernails for Capote, but actually Philip was not that meticulous ever. This is just a proof of that even a great actor is not perfect. Nobody's perfect. Yeah, lots of money is changing your life. Unfortunately the down side of it is more money for alcohol and drug.
You do have a fanciful imagination.
@@cahillgreg 🤣🤣🤣
He was very talented and was able to be sober for over 20yrs which is amazibg in itself but his downfall was he thought he could a single drink or two now and than which was a huge red flag and lead to his addiction again and it got out of control. The only person who can stop it is them overall. No one else can save the person. It's a horrible disease. Sad that he left behind 3 children who will not have their father. Luckily, we do have hus films 🎥 to remember him.
this is the ultimate Phil S Hoffman interview, i think He is so honest here, and I don't think he was high in 06. I read that he relapsed before he died, dont quote me on that though.
Lisa Surlie
How are we going to get rid of you?
You’re a pain in the ass.
Henry Osborne Isn’t there a TH-cam “report” button for this weirdo Lisa? I don’t get it. She is too immature to recognize a thought provoking interview.
Minna Humble
She has some weird hangup. Maybe she’s a junkie herself. She puts this dumb stuff on 5 different videos.
Yes. And no one locked him down when they knew he had purchased heroin. He told as a cry for help. And no one went to court and put him in lock down in rehab. He was incapable at that point of choosing not to do what he did.
she was my professor!
It’s heartbreaking to think of the effect his death had on his family.
00:09 January 11, 2006, LLH corner,
at 92nd Street Y
It would be nice to have the date this recorded in the down bar.
I’m pretty sure it was recorded in 2006.
At 00:15 it says 1 - 11 - 06
44:36 PSH talking about the reality of "celebrity"
'We can never get this auditorium for clips, because it's always in use for so many Great Cultural Events.' 😂
16:20 “The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry.” -Capote
I would have loved to see him and Jeffrey Wright together in a new film.
I believe this interview is from Jan 2006
"The Eternal Wound"
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I think he suffered from depression. That is no wonder. It is no wonder because he had to bear up against a lot of pressure. Here in Germany depression is also known as "Die deutsche Krankheit". Considering that Hoffman had German ancestors and that in Germany the suicide rate is higher than in other industrialised countries it is surely a bit of a negative inheritance that he also had to fight against....
+Yana Oh yeah. All drug addicts. We'ree talking 99.9% of drug addicts suffer from depression. He was a heroin addict and he struggled with depression his whole life.
Which statistics on suicide are you referring to? Germany is NOT on top of the list on the statistic you mention. If you mean transgenerational mental health issues I would rather relate it to him being jewish (which I don‘t care if he was). There is correlation between narcissism, depression and drugs that is still very wage.
Please be more precise about what you mean.
do not blame Germany for that. it was him
i m German too, why are you talking such lies n BS on Germany s depression rate?! Probably one of them fake-woke leftist SJWs inventing stuff to fit your sick AGENDA and to sh*t on people n countries you despise. 🤣🤣
Ok. So you do what you have to do. Shut up and leave acting behind for awhile.
5:55 Don't despair. 😂
Born to act.
I agree. A natural. Such a shame he was so young.
Can I find his plays tapes anywhere?
He, always seemed like he'd drove down the wrong, One Way Street. Forever seeking a script telling him how to live real life, and yet never finding it. Nonetheless ,the hunt was always there. I miss Him.
I'M sure those close to P S Hoffman saw the signs, but they just could not be bothered. it's always like that.
Massive Soul. PSH..
"and I won't be there"
Everynite they something going on, on this stage but no fucking mics for questions n answers
Celebrity-loss of anonymity resulting in paranoid feelings (ie others staring at him, possibly wanting to fight him) fueled addiction. Fame is a heavy burden.
Lisa Surlie
Do us a favor and go do some heroin yourself.
what a loss. he could have done more
@@roc7880 drugs?
I don't know. It's vile. Why tell all this? It really is all about him. Don't do that. No.
Terrible thing done for money and ego enhancement. Not good. Hoffman could have made a decision to get out for awhile. Go to the country. Don't stay in the West Village. Bad decision. Change. Stop. You CAN come back and do things worth doing if you are healthy. Take a bath, man. Wash your hair. Self-care is not there. Never enough ? Right.
5:25
I wont be there !
GREAT INTERVIEW ! TUESDAY 3/7/23 MARCH 7, 2023
3/7/2023?
The real Capote was Superstitious ! And all his life he believed in Fortune Tellers ! So if he was Cursed then he may have passed that Curse on to PSH ! R.I.P. ❤🙏
Superstition causes bad luck.
“The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry.” -Capote
We need to help addicts, Not judge or ridicule them
It's Capote this is about. A GAY man. An American cultural icon.
@ :44 minutes
It still makes me sad, what a waste. PSH had so much ahead of him, and he just threw it all away for drugs.
Am I the only one distracted because knowing he was very high during the interview, Im just waiting for something, anything to happen? 🤔 R.I.P.
What makes you think he was high during this interview? He seems lucid to me.
He did a great job, but the movie left me asking.. why? Why was Truman Capote celebrated in any way? He betrayed an innocent man's trust and kept lying to him saying he'd help him, all the while he didn't do a thing to help the man get out, he just used him for a book. It's disgusting. He was an awful person. Rest in hell, Capote.
he was a writer not a saint. he wanted to save him but when he discovered he did it TC changed his mind. he felt that death penalty was justified
@@roc7880 That's a nice story of him to tell, but the truth is he used a man in prison, gave him false hope, made him think he was helping him in court.. all the while he was just using him for material for a book.. Again, I don't understand why Capote was celebrated, or why this movie was even made.. after watching it, I'm left saying... "Damn, Truman Capote was a piece of shit". It was a well made well acted movie though.
@bad1dobby I don't think I've lost my perspective, but you have done a pretty good job of explaining things. Seems like I didn't understand his earlier work, and that's why people liked him. I assumed people knew he was using this man. I'm gonna maintain, Capote was a shitty person for giving false hope to a man in prison, but you make a pretty good point about him being innocent.
he's got that junky itch, and crackle in his voice
@Lisa Surlie Your brain is also rotting, lmao.
She spends to much time trying to sound intelligent when asking a question then asking it
My god why is she wearing that hideous vest?
Nandi...She's a very good interviewer, Phd, author & film scholar. Who cares that she is wearing a vest with the name of the concert hall on it? Be grateful for the interview & stop being an obnoxious American.
She has to do the night shift at Target right after the interview.
onein inone LOL
@forreal245 Why do you attribute a nationality to the commentor? Seems a bit biased to me.
I could say Philip Seymour was a selfish idiot who deprived the world of his talent. Then again, who am I to judge? I'm so, so sorry his pain, boredom or whatever, was so unbearable for him, that he couldn't endure it.
Addiction is about pain. Usually rooted in childhood. They are trying to escape pain.
@@kirsten1007💯
You would have absolutely no ideas this guy was a heroin addict. But he was a great actor so...
+Morpayne RADIO He wasn't using it at all for the majority of the time that he was famous he only started again towards the end
He had been clean 23 years and relapsed.
That's because he's still high on the heroin during this interview. You should see an addict 24 hours after not being able to get high. He'd have been a crying, screaming, shitting, vomiting mess.
His problem was that he was fat. That's why he took the drugs.
I hope you can find kindness for yourself at lease :)
Capote really was a creep. Yes, he had been locked in rooms by his mother. But he did not create the first nonfiction novel. I could have done without his books.
Be alone very alone