Dustin Hoffman has joined the cast of “Barney’s Version,” a big-screen adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel by Mordecai Richler.
The two-time Academy Award winner will star alongside Paul Giamatti (”Sideways”), who will portray the cantankerous title character, Barney Panofsky. Hoffman will play Izzy, Barney’s foul-mouthed, retired cop father.
In a statement, the film’s director expressed his excitement for the addition of Hoffman to the Canada-Italy co-production.
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SIDEWAYS star PAUL GIAMATTI struggled to keep a straight face while shooting new action film SHOOT ‘EM UP – because scenes which feature his character molesting a dead woman were ridiculous in the extreme.
The indie film giant couldn’t resist signing up to play the villain in the
new Clive Owen film because he knew the filming would be a laugh-a-minute riot.
He chuckles, “They gave me the script and my agent was like, ‘There’s some thing with a lactating whore and you’re with a dead body in the back of a car. Do you really want to read this?’
“It was just crazy and it just kept getting weirder and weirder: Bullet
shells bouncing off a woman’s pregnant stomach and Clive’s character kills a guy with a carrot right at the beginning. That’s just so ridiculous.
“We were laughing a lot of the time when we were shooting that stuff.
“Then I had to molest this dead woman in the back of a car. I just met the
actress who was playing the dead woman and she was cracking up. I was cracking up too. It was so insane.
“When I got home, I was like, ‘Oh God, what did I just do?’ It’s so gross
that it’s kind of funny.” (KL&RXM/WN/GES)
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