Michael Gandolfini ("The Many Saints of Newark") and Cooper Hoffman ("Licorice Pizza") make Yahoo's list of the most exciting young actors to hit the screen in 2021.
The actor also opens up about working with Denzel Washington and addresses ex Uma Thurman's experiences with Harvey Weinstein.
Cooper Hoffman will star in Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled coming-of-age film alongside Bradley Cooper, Bennie Safdie, and Alana Haim
Paul Giamatti was also offered the role, which Steve Carell would turn into one of TV's most definitive sitcom characters.
In a moving essay for Vogue, Mimi O’Donnell reflects on the loss of her partner and the father of her three kids from a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 46.
Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson By Nathan Rabin The culture-wide sense of sadness engendered by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death of an overdose at 46 in February 2014 has never gone away, or even dissipated. Nearly two years after news of his passing shocked and saddened viewers, it remains a fresh wound. If you are even a casual movie fan, chances are good that Hoffman starred in one of your favorite movies. If you’re a cinephile, then it’s likely the actor plays a central role in many of your fondest movie memories of the past quarter decade.
Banks and Hoffman in ‘The Hunger Games’ (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Banks has already watched The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, and there’s one part of the beloved series’ final chapter that moved her the most. “The most emotional thing about seeing the movie is seeing Phil, seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman again,” Banks told us this weekend while doing a round of publicity for her acclaimed drama Love & Mercy. “And just being taken right back to that whole experience and just being reminded of that tragedy.” Hoffman, who plays Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee, died from a drug overdose on Super Bowl Sunday in 2014 at age 46.
The tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman in February stunned and saddened the world. Among the legions who mourned him: his co-stars and collaborators on The Hunger Games films. The franchise was still in production when he died and director Francis Lawrence offered some more details about that time in the new issue of Empire magazine.