Dustin Hoffman and his wife Lisa pose for photos on the red carpet for "Boychoir" at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
September 06, 2014 - 11:19 AM
TORONTO - "Boychoir" star Dustin Hoffman sang the praises of his family at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.
During an interview with a group of reporters, the two-time Oscar winner passed around a bracelet from his wife Lisa Hoffman's fine fragrance jewelry line so everyone could see and sniff it.
"She makes these and — she'll hate me doing this — they're small beads of perfume," he said as he handed the black beaded bracelet to a journalist to smell and pass along to others.
Each piece in the line of jewelry "includes a signature charm that holds scent-infused beads which slowly release fragrance," says the website for Lisa Hoffman Beauty. (For the record — Hoffman's smelled like a light, refreshing cologne.)
Hoffman also noted his son Jake just wrote and directed his first feature, "Asthma."
"He didn't want me to see one inch of it until it was completed," he said. "He used to ask me to cue him before auditions and give him my thoughts, but then after he failed every audition, he stopped asking my opinion."
The always affable Hoffman went on to describe the rest of his brood during the chat in which he also handed his watch to a nearby reporter to see if he could fix the timer that kept going off.
"My other son is a composer and a singer, a daughter is a painter, another daughter, anybody hear of Refinery29? Refinery29 is a website for I think kids under 30, what's going on, and I think she does some good writing."
"But I'm not supposed to say any praise," he added with a grin. "They don't like that."
"Boychoir" stars Hoffman as a stern choirmaster who reluctantly accepts a troubled semi-orphan from Texas (Garrett Wareing) into his institution.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs through Sept. 14.
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