Cooper Hoffman: 'The only person I really wanted to talk to was my dad'

While I wasn't wild about Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, it made me super-emotional all the same. That was because of Cooper Hoffman, the only son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (Cooper has two sisters, just FYI). PSH was, in my mind, the greatest actor of his generation. PSH was also a constant collaborator with Paul Thomas Anderson, and I was so moved that PTA hired Cooper for that role in Licorice Pizza, a role which really showcased Cooper's talents and his similarities to his father. While there's a physical resemblance between father and son, the craziest thing is . . .