Here's Dustin Hoffman Telling a Story About Groping Katharine Ross During Their Graduate Screen Test
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Early Wednesday morning, the Hollywood Reporter published a piece by Anna Graham Hunter in which she details a series of incidents that occurred in 1985 when she—then 17—was working on the set of the TV movie Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman. Graham Hunter writes that Hoffman, 47 at the time, sexually harassed her both physically and verbally throughout the shoot:
This is a story I’ve told so often I’m sometimes surprised when someone I know hasn’t heard it. It begins, “Dustin Hoffman sexually harassed me when I was 17.” Then I give the details: When I was a senior in high school in New York City, interning as a production assistant on the set of the Death of a Salesman TV film, he asked me to give him a foot massage my first day on set; I did. He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me. One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, “I’ll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris.” His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.
In response to the piece, Hoffman—who’s spoken openly about the feminist awakening he had while making Tootsie, in 1982, (three years before the events Graham Hunter describes)—told THR: