00:00I have no idea, Mrs. Robinson, but for God's sake, they brought me up.
00:04They made a good life for me, and I think they deserve better than this.
00:06I think they deserve a little better than jumping into bed with the partner's wife.
00:10Are you afraid of me?
00:11Oh, no, you're missing the point.
00:13Look, maybe we could do something else together.
00:16Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?
00:19That was a young Dustin Hoffman starring in his breakout role in The Graduate.
00:23But the now 89-year-old actor's memoir is shedding new light on what he called a terrible experience,
00:28which he said also paid him extremely poorly.
00:31The Graduate made over $100 million at the box office in 1967,
00:37adjusting for inflation that would have been over $8 billion today.
00:41But the two-time Oscar winner revealed in his new memoir, Look At Me,
00:45that he took home a measly $3,000 after paying all his expenses.
00:50Hoffman even said he had to pay to travel to LA for the shoot.
00:53And it gets worse.
00:54When money ran out, Hoffman shared that he actually
00:57had to go on unemployment insurance.
00:59But after he saw a photo of himself at the unemployment office in Life magazine,
01:03he revealed he would never step foot in there again.
01:06Hoffman wrote,
01:07I was embarrassed by the dirty looks from other people standing in line,
01:10who needed the money, and assumed I didn't.
01:13Hoffman also recalled having a terrible experience making the movie,
01:17accusing the director Mike Nichols of becoming an entirely different person once filming began.
01:22The actor wrote,
01:23The whole time I felt Mike was angry at me,
01:25either because I was doing something wrong,
01:27or because he had realized what everybody else already knew,
01:30that he had miscast the lead in his film.
01:33He went on to accuse the director of mood swings, adding,
01:36His mood would shift dramatically.
01:37I don't remember the scene,
01:39but I will never forget Mike's acid voice saying to me after one take,
01:43What were you doing?
01:44Do the opposite of that.
01:46Well, despite all that,
01:47Nichols won the Oscar for directing the blockbuster,
01:49while Hoffman earned a nomination.
01:52Hoffman won his first Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer 12 years later,
01:56but Hoffman remains grateful to the graduate director Nichols,
01:59writing in his memoir,
02:00If Mike Nichols hadn't cast me in that movie,
02:03I would have had a completely different life.
02:05Other bombshells from the memoir include Hoffman admitting that he loved doing cocaine,
02:09saying if not for the side effect of congestion,
02:12he'd be dead right now.
02:13He also says in the mid-70s after ending his marriage to Ann Byrne,
02:17he spent a lot of time at Studio 54.
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