{"id":3041,"date":"2026-07-04T13:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:07:45","slug":"dustin-hoffman-talks-divided-america-and-how-he-got-the-graduate-role-it-was-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Hoffman Talks \u201cDivided America\u201d and How He Got \u2018The Graduate\u2019 Role: \u201cIt Was an Accident\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dustin Hoffman (<em>The Graduate<\/em>, <em>Kramer vs. Kramer<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Rain Man<\/em>) just wanted to say one word to the huge crowd that came out to see him at the\u00a0Karlovy Vary\u00a0International\u00a0Film Festival\u00a0(KVIFF) in the Czech Republic on Saturday: Plastics. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3039\">Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest 2026: Where to Watch the Annual Fourth of July Event Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I got carried away there by the famous line from the iconic <em>The Graduate<\/em>, a special screening of which Hoffman introduced on Saturday. No, the Hollywood legend had more to say to an adoring audience in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Thermal, the legendary \u201cheadquarters\u201d of the Czech festival, which welcomed him with a rousing standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he got cast in <em>The Graduate<\/em>, Hoffman replied: \u201cIt was an accident. Mike Nichols was the director of the moment. He was like Steven Spielberg today.\u201d But he faced a casting challenge. \u201cHe had spent almost two years looking for this person that was to be the graduate, and after two years, I know this because he wrote it later in his autobiography: he was willing to say we can\u2019t make it, and he was going to not make the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucky timing? \u201cLiterally, the last day he was going to see people, it was my turn and Katharine Ross\u2019 turn,\u201d the actor recalled. \u201cHad we been there two years before, we would not have gotten the role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the movie came out in 1967, can it still provide inspiration for people in their 20s today? \u201cIt\u2019s actually the same,\u201d Hoffman argued, highlighting that Charles Webb\u2019s novella, on which the movie is based, was written in 1964. That was \u201cbefore the Vietnam crisis, which divided America as it is divided today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3037\">Jesse Eisenberg Is Getting Polish Citizenship and Wants to Work More in Europe: In the U.S., the \u201cKind of Films I Love Are Increasingly Difficult to Make\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hoffman on Saturday also highlighted a key social and societal aspect explored in <em>The Graduate<\/em>. \u201cThe parents were coming out of the Great Depression of the 1930s when no one could get a job, and suddenly now, because of the war, they were able to work, and instead of giving themselves, they gave objects. So the generation that was living then was not given love \u2013 they were given objects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About the state of mind of people in their 20s, the Hollywood legend offered. I don\u2019t think we know who we are when we are in our early 20s. \u2026 And the idea is that we spend years trying to find out who am I, and I think I\u2019m still trying to find out.:<\/p>\n<p>During the Friday opening ceremony in the double anniversary year of KVIFF, its 60th edition\u00a0in the 80th year, Hoffman had been honored with the fest\u2019s Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contributions to World Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of many stars attending the Czech fest, which runs July 3-11 this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal\u00a0(<em>The Bride!<\/em>, <em>The Lost Daughter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Secretary<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Honourable Woman<\/em>) received its President\u2019s Award on Friday night, followed by Jesse Eisenberg (<em>The Social Network<\/em>,\u00a0<em>A Real Pain<\/em>) on Saturday. Harvey Keitel (<em>Mean Streets<\/em>, <em>Taxi Driver<\/em>, <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>) was also among the famous names walking the expanded red carpet of the festival in the Czech spa town on Friday. Also scheduled to visit the festival over the next week are the likes of Juliette Binoche, cinematographer Robert Richardson, Jeffrey Wright, and Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3035\">From \u2018Love Story\u2019 to \u2018Daylight\u2019 to \u2018Wi$h Li$t\u2019: Taylor Swift\u2019s Most Romantic Songs Through the Years<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Hoffman, at the 2026 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, discussed &#039;The Graduate,&#039; getting cast by accident and a divided America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[430,2,945,1212,1213],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-international","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival","tag-kviff","tag-kviff-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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