Meryl Streep addresses claims Dustin Hoffman ‘groped’ her when they first met
An old interview where Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep claimed Dustin Hoffman groped her has resurfaced.
The 1979 interview with Time Magazine has resurfaced following the recent sexual harassment allegations against Hoffman.
In the interview, Streep recounts the first time she met her Kramer vs. Kramer co-star.
“He came up to me and said, ‘I’m Dustin — burp — Hoffman,’ and he put his hand on my breast,” Streep said.
“What an obnoxious pig, I thought.”
However, Streep’s representative told E! News that the article was “not an accurate rendering of that meeting”.
“There was an offence and it is something for which Dustin apologised. And Meryl accepted that,” said Streep’s representative.
It is uncertain whether Hoffman ever commented on that encounter.
In Streep’s biography Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep other interactions with Hoffman were discussed.
Streep said Hoffman slapped her across the face before filming an emotional scene from Kramer vs. Kramer. She also said that Hoffman taunted her about her former boyfriend John Cazale, who died of lung cancer while she was dating him.
Recently, two women have accused Hoffman of sexual harassment.
Last week, Anna Graham Hunter alleged Hoffman groped her on the set of the 1985 movie Death of a Salesman and “talked about sex to me and in front of me.”
Hunter was 17 years old when the alleged incident took place.
Playwright Wendy Riss Gatsiounis claimed Hoffman asked her if she had ever slept with a man over the age of 40.
He also allegedly asked her to accompany him to a store to try on clothing and when she declined, he refused to adapt her play into a movie.
Hoffman apologised after Hunter spoke out saying “it is not reflective of who I am”.