R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Goodbye
di Stefano Falotico
Una notizia che mi lascia atterrito. Poche volte piango quando un attore del Cinema, soprattutto contemporaneo, ove molti mi stan antipatici, viene trovato morto.
Stavolta, invece, forti e inarrestabili lacrime di cordoglio e anche profondo rammarico, sì, perché sono intimissamente legato ad alcune sue interpretazioni, son scese dalle mie iridi sin a inumidirmi la bocca secca per il devastante dolore di una perdita incolmabile, di un attore grandioso che ci ha abbandonato.
Trovato morto per overdose nel bagno della sua camera di Manhattan, da un amico.
Come riportato dal nostro Deadline.
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has died. He was 46. According to NYPD, Hoffman was discovered Sunday morning in his Manhattan home after suffering an apparent drug overdose. Police were called to the scene by a friend who found Hoffman dead in the bathroom of the apartment this morning around 11:30 AM. An autopsy will be performed and results could take a few weeks.
Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor for 2005′s Capote and was thrice-nominated for Best Supporting Actor, including nods for Doubt, Charlie Wilson’s War, and for 2012′s The Master. Hoffman’s sudden death puts the fate of a number of his upcoming projects into question. Just last month he was in Park City for the Sundance premieres of God’s Pocket and A Most Wanted Man. Hoffman, who had segued into directing with his debut Jack Goes Boating, had just signed on to direct his second feature Ezekiel Moss with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams attached to star. In January, Showtime comedy pilot Happyish starring Hoffman was picked up to series with a 10-episode order. And Hoffman, who played the crucial character of Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate/Summit’s 2013 blockbuster The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was set to reprise the role in the two-part franchise sequels The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2. That role may need to be recast or re-configured if Hoffman hasn’t completed filming.
Hoffman started his love of acting on the stage in theater in summer school in high school. He later attended NY University, Tisch School of the Arts. His struggle with drug and alcohol addiction has spanned many years but last summer, in May of 2013, he bravely realized that his addictions were becoming problematic again and checked himself into rehab.
Hoffman was born in Fairport, NY to a mother who was a civil rights activist and lawyer and a father who was a corporate executive. He is survived by sisters Jill and Emily and a brother Gordy, who is a screenwriter. Gordy drafted Love Liza for Hoffman in 2002.
Senza parole, scioccato, al momento mi attengo a un normale memoriale che celebrerà per immagini e video un prodigio recitativo, e non solo, al quale la mia anima dà un saluto di pace serena e felice aldilà.
In tali tristissime circostanze, ogni altro commento o pleonastica condoglianza, mi par futile, fuori luogo e non onorante la memoria del nostro immenso Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Addio, caro.
