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"piers morgan live" starts right now. this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight as america continues to mourn one of its greatest actors i'll talk to the kid from "almost famous" what he remembers about sharing the screen with philip seymour hoffman. >> this is my advice to you. and i know you think these guys are your friends. if you want to be a true friend to them, be honest. and unmerciful. >> patrick fugat is here exclusively. also a hollywood a-lister. shocking charges of sexual abuse and a young girl caught in the middle of a scandal among mia farrow and wood cri allen. this is the story of roman polanski and samantha diamond. she joins me exclusively tonight. i'll get her take on the allen scandal. our big story, latest on philip seymour hoffman. police say the heroin found in his apartment has tested negative for a powerful additive, fentanyl. here are what two friends say about him. >> you did star in "the ides of march request with philip seymour hoffman. >> it's so hard. we're here doing a premuir two days afterwards in new york. he was a friend. and i had dinner with him a couple of months ago. i have to say he seemed in pretty good shape. i mean, there's no way to explain it. there's no way to understand it. it's just a total horrible horrible tragedy. >> and there's nowhere to really go from there. is there some -- does something ever come out of it? is there somebody watching who goes, wow, that guy was amazing and he was brilliant. he was a genius. and he was probably smarter than me, and maybe i should just stop doing this or maybe i should try to find help. i don't know. i hope so. i hope something comes of it somehow. but i can't see how that would be. it just feels like a horrible big black hole. >> another person who shared the big screen with the oscar-wing actor is patrick fugate who made his film debut at the age of 16 along side philip seymour hoffman in "almost famous." he remembers hoffman as a role model. patrick, it's good to see you. my condolences on the loss of somebody that you obviously worked with on "almost famous" i know you revered him as an actor. where were you when you heard the news and what was your reaction? >> i woke up in my -- i live in topanga canyon in california. i woke up. unfortunately i'd heard it on facebook. i got onto my phone and looked up on facebook, and i saw the news reports that people were posting. and that's how i found out. >> you worked with him. you had this piece in the "new york post" today which is incredibly evocative about the actual experience of being a young actor, debut movie, one of the great films. i've watched it many times. this moment where you realize you're really in the presence of a kind of acting genius. tell me about that. >> well, i mean, for me "almost famous" was my first real very extensive acting experience. my first film, my first leading role. and it was my first time around actors of that caliber. philip and billy crudup and jason lee and all those guys. we had two months of rehearsals. i got to meet everybody but philip. philip shows up on the day and in character which cameron crowe had warned me about. he said philip is probably just going to be lesterish while he's around set. he was but very very kind. in watching him and seeing the amount of preparation and the amount of thought and care that went into what he was doing on set those days was a new level, a new sort of -- >> there was also an intensity to his work. even when he was feeling sick and had the flu he'd still be right on his game, in fact even more intense perhaps. and a kind of intolerance of trying to make you feel good or relaxed or happy. >> oh, yeah. >> he was like get on with this. >> absolutely. i appreciated that, though. everybody was very warm and very welcoming to me because i was very young and inexperienced. they didn't want to pressure me too much. but philip, i mean, came from a real grassroots and very gritty acting background. and i think he is attitude was like, hey, kid, you got lucky. now you got to fill the role. >> he was clean and sober at the time, having already been treated in rehab for addictions in his early 20s. and you said in the post it was a certain weight that came with it. a certain darkness as part of what made his acting so compelling and so complete that he was almost carrying the scars of i guess what he'd been through. >> absolutely. and there was a darkness there, there's a past there that you don't know about. and i always appreciated that in his acting. it also seems bled into the way that he chose his roles and chose the films that he ended up in. i mean, films like "love liza" that are very dark in their material and tone. butter somehow the most lovable and compelling experiences in watching films for me. >> there was an exchange between you in "almost famous" i want to play in more detail now. this is the scene that director cameron crowe said about this. "this was a call to arms in phil's hands it became something different, a scene about quiet truths shared between two guys both at the crossroads, both hurting, both -- >> you got a big head start. >> i'm glad you're home. >> i'm always home. i'm uncool. >> me, too. >> you're doing great. the only kurn sunny this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. my advice to you, and i know you think these guys are your friends. if you want to be a true friend to them, be honest and unmerciful. >> i mean, one of so many extraordinary scenes involving this guy. many people have said in the last day or so, he was possibly the greatest character actor of his generation. i want to play another clip from the "almost famous" where you directly discuss drugs. >> take drugs? >> no. >> smart kid. i used to do speed. you know, sometimes a little cough syrup? i'd stay up all night, just writing and writing. i mean, like 25 pages. a dribble. about the faces of coltrain, just a [ mute ] write. >> you, i believe, you've managed to avoid the pitfalls of so many people, certainly young people who become movie stars in their teens. how have you managed to do that? why do you think philip in the end was unable to battle those demons successfully? >> i don't know. i mean, it's a hard question to ask me because i've never gone through that. i've never gone through substance abuse or addiction. and the more that people come out and talk about their own addictions the more we learn about how much of an actual sickness it is. and i think that people no matter how strong willed they are or whatever choices they might make normally are when they're afflicted by that sickness it's very, very hard to differentiate what's controlling what, whether it's the person and their will or the sickness. i think for me it must have been a combination of my upbringing. my parents were very grounded people. and i had a very grounded sort of life up until that point. my parents are very clean and sober people. and i also don't think that i have what it takes to absorb myself in that sort of thing. >> i was having din where a big singing star over the weekend. we were talking about the particular pressure of performing. even if it's not in front of a live audience but as a movie performance or whatever, whether there's huge money riding on it, huge acclaim or huge failure at the end of the process, a lot of particular pressure to performers. do you understand that pressure? do you think that certain types of addictive personalities succumb perhaps to that particular pressure that comes with performing? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, the pressure goes in several ways once it gets to you. and luckily enough, my personality reacts pretty well under pressure so far. and it sort of helps me rise up to whatever is expected of me. and with some people, particularly artists, particularly very brilliant artists, it's a very vulnerable position you're putting yourself in when you're performing. there's public speaking and then there's sharing your opinion in a forum that's public, and then there's performing. performing is very vulnerable. i think certain people have certain reactions to that. >> there was a scene it wasn't from "almost famous" a scene that you remembered when you heard about philip's death from another movie called "punch drunk love." why that scene? >> well, my friends and i really really loved this movie. and we had -- since i worked on "almost famous" with philip i started to realize what an incredible like you said character actor he was. >> let's take a look at a clip. >> call 370466. for a limited time only d and d mattress has queen mattress sets for $99 and king set for 129. [ mute ]. >> i mean, in a way a kind of illustration of the way he led his life as well. just constant highs, constant lows. >> yeah. it's based on a real commercial. and it's like a real video. and they redid it. it ended up on the special features. it just goes to show how natural and real he can be to pull something off that's that like organic. it's really very funny. >> how would you like him to be remembered? >> well, the way i remember him is that strength of professionalism and that strength of character. when he was on set, i got a lot more quiet. he was intimidating and he was a scary guy. and i was young and inexperienced. but he was also just very serious about what he did, and he was very very good at it. >> do you think like many many people who work with philip seymour hoffman that your own acting significantly improved through the process of just being in the same room as him? >> yeah, absolutely. i did an interview yesterday where i talk a lot about how those scenes that we shot with philip were so influential on the way that i conducted myself for the rest of the film. i took it seriously. but after that it was just a different game. it was a different level. and it meant quite a lot more to me at that point. >> i went to market here in l.a., in beverly hills over the weekend. couldn't believe the volume of people coming up to me who had just heard the news, wanting to know was it true. and really distressed at the news. hugely popular man. may not have realized how popular. slightly under the radar of conventional superstar. but when you look at the body of work right up there with the all-time greats. >> will he rode under the radar for quite a long time. recently in the last five, six, seven years he's really blown up and come into his own. >> it's a bloody waste, isn't it? >> it is. >> it's a horrible, sad, horrible waste. and i can only think of what his family are going through as well. patrick, thanks so much for coming in. i loved "almost famous" it's great to meet you and talk about this great man. you just wrapped another movie. when is that out? >> apparently later this year. fall. >> tomorrow night, broadway will dim the lights in honor of three-time tony nominee philip seymour hoffman. thank you very much indeed. next the story that rocked hollywood, a celebrity, young girl and shocking sex charges. this its not dylan pharoah versus woody allen. we'll talk to the woman at the center of the roman polanski scandal and get her take on woody allen. wow, this hotel is amazing. oh no. who are you? who are you? wrong answer. wait, daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. yeah, i didn't have to bid i got everything i wanted. oh good i always do. oh good he seemed nice. express deals. priceline savings without the bidding. i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. 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