Dustin Hoffman thought he was going to die when he was discovered in bed with a married woman by her angry husband.
“I was having an affair with a married woman,” the Oscar winner revealed on a Nov. 9 episode of Conan O’Brien’s podcast. “And she thought that once her husband fell asleep, he stayed asleep.”
The “Tootsie” star, who said the illicit relationship happened when he was a young man, was invited out by the woman after her husband fell asleep.
“And here we are having some kind of festival and he came in with a gun,” he explained. “And he pointed at me. And he said, I remember what he said, ‘Get out, get out.'”
Hoffman, 89, vividly remembers what it was like to have a gun pointed at him and thinking he was “going to die.”
“When you have a gun pointed at you, first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole,” he recalls. “And you realize how, every second, every second, he’s going to pull the trigger, because his finger is on the trigger. And you think… and you realize, this is it… I’m going to die, I’m going to die the next second.”
“And you do anything, you’ll do anything, you know, to avoid getting killed.”
Hoffman is currently promoting his memoir, “Look at Me.”
In an earlier excerpt, Hoffman revealed that making “The Graduate” was a terrible experience, writing that director Mike Nichols became “a totally different person” once filming began.
Hoffman recalls: “His mood would change dramatically. I don’t remember the scene, but I’ll never forget Mike’s acidic voice saying to me, after one take, ‘What were you doing?’ …Do the opposite of that.
Nonetheless, the film was a huge success and earned the actor his first Academy Award nomination.
“Look at Me” hits shelves on November 10.
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