Just when you think that Philip Seymour Hoffman has done it all, apparently there are some areas that remain untouched. With an impressive run of first rate leading and supporting character perfs over the last decade or so, now the American actor is adding directing credits to his resume with Jack Goes Boating, and will be skipping off to Austrialia to do some voice work for the very first time, with a stopmotion claymation feature, that frankly feels very different from the norm. Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot‘s short animated film Harvie Krumpet (see below) dealt with lead character with Tourette’s Syndrome and in his feature-length film debut he’ll pair a chubby lonely 8-year-old girl in Melbourne, Australia with Max, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York.
Hoffman who’ll next be seen in year end dramas Doubt and Synecdoche, New York, will bring his peculiar voice to Mary and Max and be matched against Toni Collette who plays the co-lead. Eric Bana and Barry Humphries are also onboard the project.
