Dustin Hoffman Singles out Melissa Leo

Thanks to Kubrick guy for tipping us off to Melissa Leo getting an endorsement from Dustin Hoffman in a Variety feature on actors talking about other actors:

It’s funny. When you’re in the business, you can tell something in the first minutes of watching, particularly in terms of the actors. Just at the start of “Frozen River,” the first thing I saw I went, “Oh! oh!” I don’t even know the director (Courtney Hunt), but there was such a documentary feel to that performance by Melissa Leo. I don’t know Melissa Leo, but that’s an extraordinary piece of work. There’s not a false moment. I felt she knew it and lived that life. Afterward, I said, “I’m glad I didn’t do that movie.” It looked painful, all those nights in the freezing cold.

The rest:

Catherine Keener on Michelle Williams in ‘Wendy and Lucy’
James McAvoy on Anne Hathaway in ‘Rachel Getting Married’
Sigourney Weaver on Rosemarie Dewitt in ‘Rachel Getting Married’
Richard Belzer on Brendan Gleeson in ‘In Bruges’
Noah Emmerich on Patricia Clarkson in ‘Elegy’
Andy Garcia on Elsa Zylberstein in ‘I’ve Loved You So Long’