Dustin Hoffman: 'I Have Been Brainwashed' About Female Beauty (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Julie Zeilinger   Posted: 07/08/2013 2:02 pm EDT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/dustin-hoffman-brainwashed-about-female-beauty_n_3561585.html

The beloved Dustin Hoffman film 'Tootsie' -- about an actor who, after having become notoriously difficult, decides to take on a female persona in order to find work -- is often acclaimed for its comedic value. But according to Hoffman, there's far more to it than a few laughs and a love story.

The Mary Sue recently unearthed an American Film Institute archival interview with Hoffman from 2012 in which the actor reveals that the film was "never a comedy" for him and that making the movie prompted him to realize how men often unwittingly reinforce impossibly high standards of female beauty.

Hoffman told AFI that he only agreed to make "Tootsie" on the condition that he could actually pass as a woman, and required makeup tests before production began. When he first saw himself on screen in full makeup, Hoffman was satisfied that he could pass as female, but was taken aback by his appearance. "I was shocked that I wasn't more attractive," Hoffman admitted in the same interview. "I said 'Now you have me looking like a woman, now make me beautiful.' I thought I should be beautiful if I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible."

I noticed this and posted both in my facebook and Tumb1r it is amazing that he said it. I liked that he cried, This is an experience that I think far more men need to go through they would really see how they treat women is so unfair and they would respect the women they ask out far more.

Bravo Dustin Hoffman!

I saw Tootsie when it first came out.  In fact, thanks to Hoffman's efforts in that film, I knew that I could transition when the time came.  At the time I was trying to detransition at the time.