Dustin Hoffman Admits Shooting One Of His Most Iconic Roles Was A 'Terrible Experience'

The Oscar winner said that a director’s alleged “sadism” spoiled one of his earliest film set experiences.

Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman has revealed he didn’t exactly enjoy shooting the film that would put him on the map as an actor.

In the late 1960s, Dustin was Oscar-nominated for his work in The Graduate, in which he played Benjamin Braddock, a young college grad seduced by an older woman, Anne Bancroft’s character, Mrs Robinson.

While the movie would serve as a break-out for the actor in his younger years, he admitted in his new memoir........

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