The Graduate might have achieved the honour of being called a Hollywood classic, but Dustin Hoffman did not believe the film would make a big hit.
New York, Sept. 3 : The Graduate might have achieved the honour of being called a Hollywood classic, but Dustin Hoffman did not believe the film would make a big hit.
In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris' upcoming Penguin Press book, Hoffman has revealed that a reading through screenwriter Buck Henry's script had given him had given him glumness on his face.
"I'll never forget. That movie just fell right on its ass. By the time the reading was over, there was glumness on everybody's face. The same expression," the New York Post quoted him as saying.
Even Henry, who played an officious hotel clerk in an encounter with Hoffman's character Benjamin Braddock in the film, has admitted that his script did not have a pleasant impact on the star cast.
"I don't think there was a lot of love in that room. Dustin was very withdrawn. And when Anne [Bancroft] started working, I don't know what was wrong, but I thought, Lord, there's no Mrs. Robinson in there that I know of," he told the author.
Tthe small 1967 film turned Hoffman into a star, was nominated for seven Oscars, produced the No. 1 single "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel, and went onto gross over 100 million dollars.
Pictures at a Revolution is scheduled to be released next February.
ANI