[fish hawk]

I once read a story about Sir Lawrence Olivier where a young method actor (someone we know but I can't think of the name now) was going out and getting drunk and acting up because he had a part in a play like that. Olivier told him: " dear boy, have you ever heard of ACTING?

[Jack Deth]

I once read a story about Sir Lawrence Olivier where a young method actor (someone we know but I can't think of the name now) was going out and getting drunk and acting up because he had a part in a play like that. Olivier told him: " dear boy, have you ever heard of ACTING?

That was when Hoffman and Sir Lawrence were working on 'Marathon Man', fish hawk.

Hoffman, well schooled in "Method" acting, decided to stay up throughout the night previous to shooting the "Is it safe?" scene. Showed up on set looking like three miles of bad road, which elicited Sir Lawrence's infamous barb.


Jack.