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The Big Picture

The Philip Seymour Hoffman Hall of Fame

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.35.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

As the 10-year anniversary of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death approaches, Sean pays tribute to his favorite actor with an audio essay highlighting the ways in which Hoffman was sui generis on the screen (1:00). Then, Amanda joins to run through Hoffman’s entire filmography and select 10 movies to make up his hall of fame (10:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Did Don Draper really buy the world of Coke?

0:04.0

Did Tony Soprano really die or just order more onion rings?

0:08.0

The finales of our favorite shows can make us argue,

0:10.0

make us cry, and make us crazy.

0:13.2

From Spotify and the Ringer, I'm Andy Greenwald, and this is Stick The Landing, a new

0:17.1

podcast where we'll be telling the story of Modern TV backwards, one fade out at a time. Find Stick the landing on Wednesdays on the Prestige TV feed,

0:25.0

on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Sean Fennese and this is the big picture a conversation show about Philip Seymour Hoffman.

0:44.0

Today we have a very special episode of the show, a tribute to a giant of the movies.

0:48.0

Momentarily, we will get into a Hall of Fame discussion of Philip Seymour Hoffman's career.

0:52.0

But before we do that, I wanted to say a few words about what he meant to me as an actor. Ten years ago we lost one of the world's great performers. Philip Seymour Hoffman died on February 2nd, 2014 at the age of 46 from a reported drug overdose.

1:10.0

Hoffman was and is my favorite actor, equal parts of Volcanic and Subterranean.

1:14.4

He could take over a movie with one scene.

1:16.8

Now get the fuck out of your, pervert!

1:19.2

Didn't I warn you?

1:21.2

That's that.

1:22.4

Or quietly carry another appearing in every frame.

1:25.0

I'd only just handed them the final scene when the bell hop told me I had a phone call.

1:30.0

And it was my stepfather, Joe Capote, calling to say that my mother had died.

1:37.8

He was the ultimate character actor, a performer who could transform his appearance, his voice, his

1:42.7

posture, his manner, and he was also an exceptional if

1:45.8

unlikely leading man in the mold of Spencer Tracy or

1:48.7

Humphrey Bogart or Bob Hoskins, Richard Dreyfus,

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