Was Philip Seymour Hoffman gay or bi?

Such a great actor and so FUBAR.

[quote]Addiction kills internal pain.

WTF?

He looks so my like an ex, it pains me to look at him.

R2, drugs, alcohol kills psychological pain and trauma . It’s not the solution obviously, but it’s a self medication .

Straight as an arrow.

No hint of him being F.O.D.

I used to live in the West Village and would see him and the family at Bar Pitti hanging outside. Soo sad!

R5, thinks all Gay men are fit and good looking

He was never hawt, tho. The hets can have him.

He played gay characters very convincing: Flawless, Boogie Nights, Capote.

R8 he was, hands down, the hottest for me. I'm r3.

Well every pot has a lid, R3 / R10.

He was one of the few modern actors I'd go see a movie for solely to see his performance.

Stole every scene in Twister.

I never heard any rumors that he was gay, but I never heard any rumors that he dealt heroin, either.

Who knows, OP. R9 is right, he played gay characters very well.

I used to see him in the rooms(AA) in New York. Extremely sweet guy. No not the least bit gay.

How many gay characters did this Hoffman play?

Scotty J in Boogie Nights breaks my heart. Out of every (great) performance/scene in that movie, the one where he makes a move on Wahlberg's character has stuck with me since I first saw it at age 16.

Ugly so it doesn't matter.

Fucking great scene, R17. So credible.

His personality/charisma/talent/whatever was extremely sexy to me - he seemed like a force of nature. He reminded me of an ex of mine with a drinking/coke problem that has always worried me, a party guy everyone loves but very few people actually know.

Not gay or bi. Immediately after his death the National Enquirer came out with an article entitled "PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S SECRET GAY LIFE." The article got its info from a writerfriend of Hoffman's named David Bar Katz, who said he and Hoffman were lovers and that they freebased together. But the National Enquirer was in for a big surprise. David Bar Katz contacted the rag and said he had NEVER spoken to them and that the article was all lies. Seems the guy the NE thought was Katz was not him at all. I supposed they paid him; he gave them exactly the bullshit they like to hear. The NE had to print a retraction and an apology but Katz brought a lawsuit against them. He sad he (and Hoffman) would have just laughed off the gay rumors (every guy who works in the theater is gay, right?) but it was the drug accusations that really steamed him. I think he said any money from the lawsuit would be used to create the American Playwriting Foundation, which will give out an annual prize of $45,000 for an unproduced play.

One of the few actors who never disappointed. I was heartsick when he overdosed. Such a waste .

Was his character in Talented Mr. Ripley supposed to be bi/gay? I wondered if that’s how he was able to read Tom so quickly. He played the part a bit fey but it could be read as simply upper-class softness

There’s something insecure about that character, which drives his policing of the class boundary. Maybe he’s just a bully, maybe he’s from a more threadbare old money family? I don’t think he reads as fey so much as taking pleasure in causing social suffering—kind of a class sadist. But I don’t think it’s a bad guess.

He looked like he smelled.

I always wondered if Scientology would do something to smear him after he did The Master. Who knows what he was dealing with behind the scenes and maybe the NE story was something along those lines.

R25 I'd like to have smelled him. I'd have inhaled his pitmusk in deeply.

Atrocious

Two of the most tragic celebrity deaths were Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger. Both so young, both so talented. They would have gone on to do so much more great work. And they both died from drugs. Such a damn shame.

He's an actor I truly miss. I think I loved every performance I ever saw him do.

I saw Almost Famous in the theater in high school, before I learned a thing about film, and remember after his first scene, thinking, who the FUCK is that guy????

Great, sexy voice in addition to his other talents.

Yeah, Heath Ledger, his work in A Knight's Tale? Wow!

Don't know if he was bi but he was in a LTR with a woman and they had 3 kids together.

HIs son Cooper is 18 and was recently the co-lead in the movie "Licorice Pizza."

[qyote] Yeah, Heath Ledger, his work in A Knight's Tale? Wow!

No, his work in "Monster's Ball", "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Dark Knight", dummy.

The best actors in the world are bi so there’s your answer

[quote] Stole every scene in Twister.

Um, that wasn't exactly difficult.

Dude, I sharted.

R7 Fucktard.

I stated, though not in the traditional way, that there were never any indications of him being gay. No rumours, nothing.

I made no reference to his appearance.

Great actor. In Doubt he "got" the priest thing perfectly. The arrogance. I guess the priest was a gay pedo who molested.

Sadly birds of a feather.

R2 to simplfy drug addicts and alco's as drinking and drugging their problems is a stretch. Sure some do . Most of those with whom it has becone a problem are just fun loving people that are unable to practice moderation.

Hoffman said in a 60 Minutes interview that when it came to drugs he used to "anything I could get my hands on." I suppose he was clean for a long time but relapsed But why? Was his need for drugs that great? Was he suffering some kind of mental torture? People do heroin to numb themselves' what made him want to be numb? Was his relationship with the mother of his children failing? His motivation to start doing hard drugs again is a mystery.

Throughout the years, I have been told I look like him. At first I was offended but he really was a great actor and so talented.

I love his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley. The way he says "Tommy" (which is my name, btw) really CUT, which it was meant to do. He was definitely one of those actors who you would never catch them acting. He completely became the character.

He was just FAT AND UGLY!!

^Really, that’s your comment? Pathetic.

I thought he supposedly fell of the wagon when doing Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

I heard he fell off the stage on Broadway due to his weight-sweating issues and killed 3 people in the 1st row

R43 If you look like him you're my type :)

He was a great actor. Probably one of my all-time favorites. Such a shame because he most likely had a lot more great performances in him and he was way too young. In college, he was really into boxing. He said he never particularly wanted to be an actor when he was young. Apparently, it didn't even cross his mind. He has been in so many movies and I can't remember one bad performance.

He played gay so well because he was great at his craft. One of the greatest. RIP.

My husband had a massive crush on him too, R3.

PSH was not gay. The NY theatre crowd is not that big, so I'd have heard if he were playing both sides. And at a more direct level, I once found myself standing next to him at a party; there was not one thing about him that pinged. Very, very straight.

He left us all too soon. He was one of the greats. Still makes me sad.

He's dead but you're a GAY OCD, OP. Pop your pills and go to bed. Your GAY obsession is burning and killing you inside.

I interacted with him twice, socially. He was very friendly and was totally straight. So was his brother (much more, a womanizer). Neither one of them were gay. The rumors were based on his role in Boogie Nights. But, no. Nice guy and very friendly.

[quote] "Great actor. In Doubt he "got" the priest thing perfectly. The arrogance. I guess the priest was a gay pedo who molested."

Maybe, maybe not. Hence the title of the play/film.

I love him in everything he did (though I've never seen "Charlie Wilson's War"). Unfortunately, I never saw him live onstage. I regret it. I don't know that I have a favorite, but I watch "Flawless" about once a month, and own a good many of his films.

I've never heard a single bad thing about him (other than his drug problems).

Did he ever win an Oscar?

Google is your friend r55

Whose goggle?

He was terrible in Capote, a film nobody watches or talks about anymore.

He had something magnetic about him for sure.

he did a mix of commercial and art films. he was scheduled to direct a film with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams that no one else has made. He also only got to the pilot of the TV show Happyish and was replaced by Steve Coogan.

Lots of wonderful work: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Synecdoche New York, Charlie Wilson's War, The Master, Moneyball, The Ides of March....

Did Mary Kate kill him too?