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Dustin Hoffman Screen Test “Tootsie”

This funny video is of a screen test by Dustin Hoffman for the role of Dorothy in the classic 1982 Comedy, Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack. We also see a brief costume test.

  1. Ladybyron100
    September 7th, 2009 at 10:35 | #1

    He was wonderful, even in drag. I love the film

  2. stephy198920011
    October 28th, 2009 at 03:53 | #2

    aww i love him! is itjust the glasses hes wearing or does he have a fake lazy eye in this? lol just a question not a criticism :)

  3. franklanguage
    November 10th, 2009 at 05:52 | #3

    Best line from Tootsie: “How much trouble can a baby be?”

  4. zvonkybun
    November 10th, 2009 at 18:14 | #4

    Damn he’s good.

  5. karmakomodia
    November 15th, 2009 at 05:59 | #5

    He is outrageous. Crack up spoof screen test..!!

  6. ketchuplittletomato
    November 21st, 2009 at 07:12 | #6

    I like how the camera slowly goes up his legs at the beginning. ha

  7. rubinoos1
    January 29th, 2010 at 04:03 | #7

    Does he looks more like a woman here or in the movie? I can’t tell.

  8. playgirlc
    February 12th, 2010 at 15:50 | #8

    46 my arse!

    lol – i love tootsie…. hoffman is brilliant whatever he does

  9. CharmingSage
    February 15th, 2010 at 22:24 | #9

    Yes! Hoffman can do no wrong.

  10. pancholdn
    July 23rd, 2010 at 04:05 | #10

    You know some sicko is jacking off to this

  11. lois8795
    July 24th, 2010 at 15:34 | #11

    lookin good dustin

  12. dyhard678
    August 15th, 2010 at 08:40 | #12

    @pancholdn I hope aint you dude. Just kiddin

  13. pancholdn
    August 15th, 2010 at 12:18 | #13

    @dyhard678 you caught me lol

  14. necronominate
    August 15th, 2010 at 18:40 | #14

    fukken hilarious

  15. dyhard678
    August 15th, 2010 at 18:42 | #15

    @pancholdn good one. hahahhaha!

  16. newfypearl
    August 19th, 2010 at 19:08 | #16

    i glad he ended up using the accent for dorothy

  17. pattyk77
    October 2nd, 2010 at 02:07 | #17

    @rubinoos1 Looks more like a man here, the movie got it right in the end.

  18. twilightedwardbella9
    October 3rd, 2010 at 19:43 | #18

    I saw him walking in downtown toronto, and my grandma and I started freaking out, and like, stalked him for half an hour. :P P But we never went up to him, cause he was with his family, But what a sight it was =D

  19. pistachioguy
    November 11th, 2010 at 20:45 | #19

    Real actor – can play any role he sets his mind on – thing with many (if not most) Hollywood actors is that they always seem to play themselves on screen every time, ie it’s hard to get away from their personality, be it Pacino, de Niro, Nicholson, or Brando – only Hoffman is an “actor” who subsumes his personality in practically every role he’s ever played – Kramer vs Kramer, Midnight Cowboy, Graduate, Tootsie, Sleepers, Lenny, Wag the Dog, Bathgate, Madigan, Outbreak…he’s a national treasure

  20. rockstarrist
    November 24th, 2010 at 08:17 | #20

    Dustin is the Best actor in the world ! n look at him,,, wow,,
    I am his biggest fan on earth and I ‘d just like to meet him atleast once before I die ..
    I am 21 n have watched all his movies…
    He doesn’t act- he lives on screen

  21. MikeysGayToday
    January 9th, 2011 at 04:25 | #21

    @pistachioguy I would not put Brando in this catagory…..In his time,he, Clift, Dean really changed the acting world…..Now Julia Roberts, LOVE HER, but always the same….. But GO DUSTIN!

  22. pistachioguy
    January 9th, 2011 at 15:43 | #22

    @Mikeys – Julia Roberts??!!

    Brando’s in there for a reason (and now that you mention it, Dean as well) – since they are more monodimensional actors — they don’t allow the roles to take over.

    I omitted several other brilliant American actors like Kevin Spacey, William Hurt, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Ed Norton, Denzel Washington, and older ones Poitier, Mitchum, Lancaster, Peck , Bogie, Peck, Gable, Grant, Stewart, who in fact can ACT..but Julia?..is you head screwed on straight?

  23. FetidToecheese
    January 18th, 2011 at 00:48 | #23

    amazing how he had not developed the character at all at this point

  24. 1975dze
    March 2nd, 2011 at 18:04 | #24

    He is a true legend!

  25. kevinastraw
    April 12th, 2011 at 20:29 | #25

    “I can pad anything.” There’s no padding in Hoffman’s acting. If I met this character on a blind date, it would not be till bedtime that I would know the truth! He does not act, he transforms himself.

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