{"id":68961,"date":"2013-07-09T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68961"},"modified":"2013-07-09T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:28:53","slug":"tootsie-was-never-a-comedy-for-me-dustin-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68961","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[<i>Tootsie<\/i>] Was Never a Comedy For Me.&#8221; &#8211; Dustin Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPAat-T1uhE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Profound.  Fiercely honest. &#8220;If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible.&#8221; Through acting, he really does enter into the female experience.  He gets it.  I remember him talking about this at the time <i>Tootsie<\/i> came out, that he was horrified at how unattractive he was as the character, and how it brought up shame in him over how he had overlooked women due to the fact that they did not conform to what he thought he deserved as a man.  And all of that is in the performance.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profound. Fiercely honest. &#8220;If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible.&#8221; Through acting, he really does enter into the female experience. He gets it. I remember him talking about this at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68972,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961\/revisions\/68972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}