Dustin Hoffman had a realization about women when first made up to play Tootise

Wow. [via Theresa DeLucci]

“Dustin Hoffman on playing a woman in Tootsie (1982)

‘If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that characte...