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Child actor Gaby Hoffman sounds off on directors, costars, and Madonna

Someone mentioned Madonna was mean to Gaby so, I looked it up, and sure enough, she was! I wish all interviews were this candid. It's from 1992.

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by Anonymousreply 60March 1, 2021 4:26 PM

She was a hideous looking child so what’s your point, OP?

by Anonymousreply 1February 27, 2021 10:57 PM

Holy shit, I love this bitch!

Loved her on Transparent and especially on Girls.

To be that age, and keep it real? God bless her!

by Anonymousreply 2February 27, 2021 11:00 PM

If you want an honest take on anything ask a kid

by Anonymousreply 3February 27, 2021 11:03 PM

R3- YES. You are my king. Or Queen.

by Anonymousreply 4February 27, 2021 11:05 PM

I enjoyed that! I’m picturing her as little girl from Sleepless in Seattle saying this shit. Too funny.

by Anonymousreply 5February 27, 2021 11:06 PM

LOL R5. This thread is a gem. I love this woman.

by Anonymousreply 6February 27, 2021 11:09 PM

I wish she was this blunt as an adult.

"Jill Soloway was a cunt. Or whatever 'his' name is now. I can't keep track and I don't care."

by Anonymousreply 7February 27, 2021 11:14 PM

Oh Chile. James Steinbeck is NOT to be messed with!

by Anonymousreply 8February 27, 2021 11:15 PM

That interview is hilarious. She paints herself as being kinda bratty, but in a hilarious way. Just how she marches up to Madonna all: "I thought you were against this sort of thing" and nearly every topic ends with her: "I hate them!" Hahahaha.

by Anonymousreply 9February 27, 2021 11:17 PM

Ooh, I found a video of her discussing the Madonna thing:

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by Anonymousreply 10February 27, 2021 11:23 PM

"I can’t understand why people like Home Alone. It was the worst movie I’ve ever seen."

HAHAHAHA

by Anonymousreply 11February 27, 2021 11:25 PM

This bitch rules.

by Anonymousreply 12February 27, 2021 11:26 PM

Her imitation of Madonna in that video is exactly how I've heard several other people imitate Madonna at her brattiest, so you know it's spot on.

by Anonymousreply 13February 27, 2021 11:33 PM

Apparently everyone has been mean to her.

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by Anonymousreply 14February 27, 2021 11:34 PM

This kind of stuff must be so regular and go on all the time, but most people in the business pretend it's normal or don't mention it for fear of losing work.

by Anonymousreply 15February 27, 2021 11:36 PM

She showed her puss in public.

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by Anonymousreply 16February 27, 2021 11:39 PM

The abusive assholes probably think that the kids aren't taking mental notes...and that the kids will drift out of the business before adulthood and never be interviewed. Well, they were wrong!

Mel Gibson is known to have a volatile temper, and it sounds like people who worked with him had to walk on eggshells. (I'm sure Jodie would tell us he was just having a bad day when he screamed at that little girl.)

So, John Hughes completely ignored her and focused on John Candy and Macaulay Culkin? Weird.

by Anonymousreply 17February 27, 2021 11:41 PM

Madonna is such an asshole. I remember when she and Sting briefly jumped on the vegetarian/no fur band wagon in the 80s. It didn’t last. Both Madonna and Sting’s wife are poor white trash desperate to seem “rich and classy” and so both wear fur and leather (usually in hideous designs). Sting pretends to care about the rain forests. I loathe celebrities. They really are a cancer.

by Anonymousreply 18February 27, 2021 11:51 PM

R14 well according to ten year old Gabby , Kevin Costner was quite " nice and supportive".

by Anonymousreply 19February 27, 2021 11:51 PM

I had no idea this ugly woman who played Adam’s crazy sister on Girls was a child star. She really is strange looking. Like Michael Imperioli in a wig.

by Anonymousreply 20February 27, 2021 11:53 PM

Hilarious interview, who would have thought that such great gossip could come from a kid.

Slightly off topic but I always thought that John Hughes was the most insanely overrated director of all time. Usually I can kind of see where critics are coming from when it comes to revered directors,even if their work isn't my cup of tea. Hughes films leave me completely cold.

by Anonymousreply 21February 27, 2021 11:54 PM

R8 LOL

still can't believe he was her father

by Anonymousreply 22February 27, 2021 11:54 PM

I’ll never forget I went to a preview screening of the pilot episode of Transparent at Outfest in LA with a panel discussion afterwards with the cast. Gaby sat behind me and during the scene where she gets nude she let out the funniest little giggle. It must be weird to watch yourself naked on film.

by Anonymousreply 23February 28, 2021 12:11 AM

R22 I thought her father was Anthony Herrera

by Anonymousreply 24February 28, 2021 12:11 AM

I have a vague memory of seeing my girl. Was Gaby's character the girl who dies? If so she had a big part in that film. What a prick the director must have been for treating the co star of the film that way, or really any kid. Fuck him. I thought she was hilarious in Girls but had no idea she was a child actor or her dad was that guy who was so big on the soaps. She was passable as a kid but I hate to say it really ugly as an adult. Her pussy looks kind of wrinkled. Are they supposed to look like that?

by Anonymousreply 25February 28, 2021 12:12 AM

Sorry, My Girl.

by Anonymousreply 26February 28, 2021 12:13 AM

I don't think she was in My Girl, that was a blonde kid. She was in Uncle Buck with Macaulay though, which is the experience she is talking about with how awful she thought he was. And I think it was his character who died in My Girl, wasn't it? I've never seen it.

by Anonymousreply 27February 28, 2021 12:16 AM

Gabby wasn’t in My Girl. That was Anna chumsly. Macaulay Culkin’s character died, not the girl.

I like her candidness. I want more!

by Anonymousreply 28February 28, 2021 12:16 AM

R24 He was. James was the role he played on the soap opera.

by Anonymousreply 29February 28, 2021 1:14 AM

She sounded bitter that Culkin became so successful and she never rose to the same heights.

by Anonymousreply 30February 28, 2021 1:56 AM

She had a crazy upbringing. Viva is her mom and I think she lived with Cindy Sherman for a while as a kid. She spent summers in Italy with Gore Vidal as a child. She was a chef in Italy, became a doula. I like her.

by Anonymousreply 31February 28, 2021 3:24 AM

She was no Christina Ricci.

by Anonymousreply 32February 28, 2021 3:34 AM

Why would a woman NOT wear an undergarment? Don’t things get humid down there?

by Anonymousreply 33February 28, 2021 3:55 AM

This twit is just mad she wasn't in my book with all the pictures!

by Anonymousreply 34February 28, 2021 3:58 AM

Shut up, Gaby.

by Anonymousreply 35February 28, 2021 4:25 AM

I love it. She’s right, Macaulay was overrated

by Anonymousreply 36February 28, 2021 6:08 AM

I wanted a lava bomb to hit her in "Volcano."

by Anonymousreply 37February 28, 2021 6:43 AM

I like her, too.

by Anonymousreply 38February 28, 2021 10:57 AM

Gaby Bridgeburner

by Anonymousreply 39February 28, 2021 11:29 AM

This child has learned that you can walk up to someone you don't know, bitch them out about how they look, and then be celebrated. Madonna's a cunt but she didn't go far enough. This Rich Famous White Girl should've been bitchslapped to the ground. People get shot for much less in the real world.

by Anonymousreply 40February 28, 2021 11:46 AM

I remember her from Now and Then with Christina Ricci, Thora Birch and Devon Sawa. Cute kid, strange looking adult. The 90s had a ton of child actors who were pretty decent acting.

by Anonymousreply 41February 28, 2021 12:31 PM

She should have spent Christmas at my house.

by Anonymousreply 42February 28, 2021 12:47 PM

On New York’s famous Chelsea Hotel, where she has lived since she was a baby:

"Someone shot our door out two days ago. My next door neighbour got raped. We decided it was time to leave, so we’re getting out of there next month. Actually, we got evicted. But I think it’s time to move to a place that is less exciting. I think we should move to the Rockies."

Wow.

by Anonymousreply 43February 28, 2021 12:48 PM

She hates so many things.

I wish she hated her pubic hair.

by Anonymousreply 44February 28, 2021 12:54 PM

Why did someone shoot her door out at the Chelsea Hotel?

by Anonymousreply 45February 28, 2021 1:20 PM

She's an excellent actress. Completely natural, compelling. The only reason to watch Transparent, which I still think should have had a coda that could have skirted the whole "only trans actors play trans characters": An accusation surfaces against Moira from pre-transition days, so the whole season is a flashback played by Tambor.

by Anonymousreply 46February 28, 2021 1:33 PM

Attention whores face off. Nobody wins.

by Anonymousreply 47February 28, 2021 1:45 PM

R32 Christina Ricci was also pretty outspoken as a kid/teenager. Maybe that's why she and Gaby become best friends after meeting on Now and Then.

by Anonymousreply 48February 28, 2021 2:57 PM

[quote]"I can’t see [Macaulay Culkin] as an adult actor, because he can’t act."

She was proved right there.

by Anonymousreply 49February 28, 2021 3:04 PM

I loved in that indie movie Kate Hudson debuted on. Can’t remember the name of it.

by Anonymousreply 50February 28, 2021 3:11 PM

*loved her

by Anonymousreply 51February 28, 2021 3:11 PM

R50 200 Cigarettes? Don’t think that was quite Hudson’s first though.

by Anonymousreply 52February 28, 2021 3:16 PM

Yup that’s the one!

by Anonymousreply 53February 28, 2021 3:16 PM

That picture! I can’t believe this woman who is known for going fully nude is also photographed in public with the worst pussy shot I’ve ever seen.

by Anonymousreply 54February 28, 2021 3:17 PM

It seems very unfair to print what a child that age says.

They don't know enough about the business to censor themselves.

by Anonymousreply 55February 28, 2021 3:39 PM

After seeing her enormous gorilla vagina on Transparent I was done.

by Anonymousreply 56February 28, 2021 4:02 PM

She was right on about Mac Culkin. I saw him in some movie with Seth Green and Chloe Sevigny. He was godawful. I think that was his only major film as an adult. And thank goodness for that.

by Anonymousreply 57February 28, 2021 4:41 PM

R55 Sadly, this is true. She was also cynical enough at ten to spot an opportunity for publicity.

by Anonymousreply 58February 28, 2021 4:53 PM

Macaulay is too hideous to be an adult actor. Who would want to see that on their screen? So they can be reminded "this is the former child star who slept with Michael Jackson"???

by Anonymousreply 59February 28, 2021 6:31 PM

He was pretty funny on Will and Grace but I agree he was awful in that movie r57 mentioned.

by Anonymousreply 60March 1, 2021 4:26 PM
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