Gaby Hoffmann may need performed the younger daughter of Kevin Costner in “Field of Dreams,” however she says their heat relationship on-screen didn’t lengthen to actual life.
Talking to Business Insider in an interview this week, Hoffmann recalled experiencing “a lot of paternal energy” on the set of the 1989 movie.
When requested about working with Costner particularly, nonetheless, she had a succinct however telling response.
“I didn’t feel paternal energy from Kevin Costner,” the actor, now 42, mentioned. “We’ll leave it at that.”
Hoffmann was simply 7 years previous when she performed Karin Kinsella in “Field of Dreams,” which was directed by Phil Alden Robinson. The movie follows Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner), who decides to construct knowledgeable baseball diamond on his property.
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Although Ray’s neighbors assume he’s having a midlife disaster, his gamble has a supernatural payoff when the diamond begins to draw the ghosts of legendary baseball gamers, together with “Shoeless Joe” Jackson (Ray Liotta).
“Field of Dreams” was each a important and business smash, nabbing three Academy Award nominations. It additionally helped usher in a wave of baseball motion pictures that culminated with 1992′s “A League of Their Own,” starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna.
After years as a profitable baby actor, Hoffmann took a hiatus from Hollywood within the early 2000s. In recent times, nonetheless, she’s loved a little bit of knowledgeable resurgence, receiving Emmy Award nominations for supporting roles on “Girls” and “Transparent.” She will be able to at present be seen reverse Benedict Cumberbatch within the Netflix collection “Eric,” launched this week.
Hoffmann had extra constructive issues to say about fellow co-star Liotta, who died in 2022 at age 67.
“I just absolutely loved Ray,” she instructed Business Insider. “I was convinced he was in love with me, too, which, of course, he wasn’t, but he was just such a sweetheart.”
“I sort of jokingly said I had a big crush on him, but I think I was really drawn to a kind of fatherly, protective energy that he had in spades,” she continued. “What a beautiful actor he was, too.”
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