Philip Seymour Hoffman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q180560: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (18 films) instead.

Draws on

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No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

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What the speakers said they did

Acting (26) everyone in acting

Other (10) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Mission: Impossible III. Hoffman elevated any material, playing the Mission: Impossible III villain like he was in The Master and scaring Tom Cruise.
    “no matter what the material was, he elevated it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:25:42 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Philip Seymour Hoffman → The Talented Mr. Ripley. Hoffman's trajectory: Scent of a Woman, then Boogie Nights, then Ripley as the exclamation point that confirmed a real actor.
    “And then Ripley was the exclamation point.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:25:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Simon McBurney → Philip Seymour Hoffman. A great actor doing a subtle Cruise impression is likened to Hoffman in MI3 (speaker's target ambiguous, probably McBurney).
    “Another example of much like Phelpseymour Hoffman, a great actor doing a very subtle impression of Tom Cruise doing an impression of someone else.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:53:28 · unknown (0.20 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (people): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Mission: Impossible. PSH is a Special Achievement inductee; his Mission Impossible scene is one Bill keeps rewatching.
    “PSH scene.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:03:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Stanley Tucci → Philip Seymour Hoffman. Koppelman says that when Hoffman was alive, Tucci and Hoffman were the two actors he most wanted to work with.
    “Tucci and Philip Seymour Hoffman were like the 2 people, I didn't get to work with what most want to work with”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:46:28 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. people (prior collaboration): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Capote. Hoffman starred in Bennett Miller's first narrative feature and won the Best Actor Oscar for it, then brought gravitas to a small Moneyball part.
    “Hoffman had had acted in Capote, Bennett Miller's 1st narrative feature film and won an Academy Award for best actor for that role.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:14:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (auteur credit): Mission: Impossible III → Philip Seymour Hoffman. MI3 belongs to Hoffman more than to Cruise.
    “But it's Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Philip Seymour Hoffman. Everything magical about Hoffman is in his one-minute scene.
    “Everything magical about Filistino Hoffman is in this one minute sequence.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:56:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (anti-chemistry): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Brad Pitt. Hoffman is not intimidated by Pitt, giving their scenes of open contempt a rare tension.
    “film Seymour Hoffman is not afraid of Brad Pitt.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:15:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Boogie Nights. Craig's contrarian take: Hoffman is the same weird, goofy loner supporting guy in Boogie Nights and Twister, though he excepts The Master and Ripley.
    “I could see the Boogie Knights Twister. That connection...”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:52:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (7)

  1. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Weird Science. Hoffman would have been a great Chet in a recasting.
    “What role of Feeble Philip Seymour Hoffman had played clearly, Chet?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:27:05 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): The Truman Show → Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman as Marlon playing it like his Freddie Miles in Ripley.
    “What if it was Marlon, but he played it exactly like Freddie and Count Mr. Ripley?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:21:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Species. Hoffman would be perfect for the Alfred Molina part.
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raw.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:17:41 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Working Girl. Hoffman would have played the Spacey part, or Oliver Platt's.
    “What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played probably Spacey.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:44:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Paulie → Philip Seymour Hoffman. Asked what role Philip Seymour Hoffman would have played: Paulie, Gazzo's driver or Jurgens.
    “What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:35:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Kevin Spacey. Someone adds Hoffman as another candidate for Sam.
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman, the other guy who obviously could have played Sammy, would have killed it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:26:40 · Brian Koppelman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → The Ice Storm. Ryan wishes Hoffman could be in the film as the Reverend, Jim Carver, or Paul.
    “if we could have just worked Philip Seymour Hoffman into this movie somewhere, it would have been amazing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: Hoffman loved the script and the role but had a scheduling conflict.
    “Hoffman, despite the fact, get ready to cry, that he, quote, loved the script, liked the role, had scheduling conflict.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:01:57 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: In an early lawn-chair scene Hoffman lifts his leg laughing and a split second of exposure was edited from later DVD and VHS releases.
    “you can see his genitals for a split 2nd that they had to edit out of future DH DVD and VHS releases.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:08:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: His Oklahoma Sooners hat and Baja are picked as the movie memorabilia; Chris says over the years his Dusty performance is the most fascinating thing about the film.
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oklahoma sooner's hat.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:48:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: Played Art Howe, who also managed the Mets and sucked; a nothing part on the page that he gave gravitas.
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plays Art Howe, who also managed the Mets, by the way, and he sucked.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:14:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: Brian tried to get Hoffman into a movie on an airplane, but he did not want to do a gangster film.
    “He wouldn't do it before he was super famous.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:56:20 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)