Hoffman’s death: ‘Desperately sad’

I will most remember Philip Seymour Hoffman for “Doubt,” Capote,” and of course, “Scent of a Woman.” He was an actor who put the entirety of his soul into the characters he played, and that fact was palpable on screen.

This quote, from director Robert Falls, perhaps best summarizes his unique abilities:

The theater was very difficult for him. It cost him; there was an emotional cost to the work, having to do it for eight performances a week, and having to rehearse. In ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ a role about an addict who would be dead in a number of years, who was filled with self-loathing, certainly Phil had access to those emotions. But I’m not talking about a method actor. He just brought every fiber of his being to the stage. He was there — with his depth of feeling, depth of humanity — and no other actor I’ve ever worked with ever brought it like that, not at that level.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46.