Acclaimed television and film screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says that Philip Seymour Hoffman's shocking death from heroin abuse probably saved lives.
Yes, you read that correctly.
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"Phil Hoffman and I had two things in common," writes Sorkin. "We were both fathers of young children, and we were both recovering drug addicts."
Hoffman died Sunday at age 46. He first met Sorkin on the set of the 2007 movie Charlie Wilson's War, for which Sorkin had penned the screenplay.
"On breaks during rehearsals, we would sometimes slip outside our soundstage on the Paramount lot and get to swapping stories," Sorkin recalls.
"It's not unusual to have these mini-AA meetings. People like us are the only ones to whom tales of insanity don't sound insane. 'Yeah, I used to do that.'"
"I told him I felt lucky because I'm squeamish and can't handle needles," Sorkin said of Hoffman's heroin addiction, and "he told me to stay squeamish.
"And he said this: 'If one of us dies of an overdose, probably 10 people who were about to won't.' He meant that our deaths would make news and maybe scare someone clean."
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Sorkin adds that Hoffman, a 'kind, decent, magnificent, thunderous actor," did not die from an "overdose of heroin ... he died from heroin." In general.
"We should stop implying that if he'd just taken the proper amount then everything would have been fine," he urges, making a strong and overlooked point.
"He didn't die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed ... he died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a y in it."
"Let's add to that 10 people who were about to die who won't now."
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