Pulling your leg. Hoffman, who had learned in the "method acting" schools, apparently stayed up all night to look properly harrowed for a scene. Laurence Olivie

Pulling your leg. Hoffman, who had learned in the "method acting" schools, apparently stayed up all night to look properly harrowed for a scene. Laurence Olivier, playing opposite, is said to have told him something like "Why don't you try acting, my boy? It's so much simpler."