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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Philip Seymour Hoffman
jeffdrollins — 11 years ago(February 20, 2015 07:46 AM)
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The Master
is arguably the greatest performance that Philip Seymour Hoffman ever gave. Each time I sit down and watch it I am simply overcome with a sense of awe at the power that generates from Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd. It is an indescribable energy, generated from the piston like give and take that he and Joaquin Phoenix fill their characters with. The role required both Phoenix and Hoffman to act out scenes of copious alcohol consumption and various different states of inebriation. At the time of filming The Master, Philip Seymour Hoffman was 23 years sober. After seeing the film, even once, the amount of physical and mental exhaustion that Hoffman must have expended for the role are more than obvious. Hoffman once said of acting that: theres always something about that job thats exhausting, and thats whats exhausting about acting, is the level concentration over a very long period of time. Almost as if that concentration and exhaustion had come to a head, Hoffman took his first drink in 23 years at the wrap party for The Master. A little over a year later he would be found dead in his New York City apartment of a drug overdose.