'Rain Man's fart scene's my best'
Hollywood star, Dustin Hoffman's film Kung Fu Panda is already creating waves at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor, Rajeev Masand got talking to him.
Rajeev Masand: You've been quoted as having said that your favourite scene in your entire career is your farting scene from Rain Man.
Dustin Hoffman: Yes, that's one of them.
Rajeev Masand: Did you know while filming it that it was going to be special?
Dustin Hoffman: No, because I don't know that I was going to fart. How do you say fart in Punjab? No, really, I liked working with Tom Cruise very much on that film. It was 1988 and we had great fun and Barry Levinson who directed it allowed us to improvise and we had this scene in a telephone booth with radio mikes on and while we were shooting it, I farted! It was probably after lunch.
And Tom improvised and he called me by my character's name and said, "Ray, Ray, did you fart?" So since we had to improvise, I said, ya "fart, fart". And it's one of the high moments of my life. I have done Shakespeare and I have done plays by Arthur Miller, but nothing can touch the fart scene.
