Philip Seymour has admitted that acting frustrates.
Talking about his new role in Synecdoche, New York, which he stars in with Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton and Michelle Williams, went on to claim that he finds acting 'torturous'
In an interview with Shortlist he said: "You have to [make people] believe that you're 70 years old and that you're lying at the death bed of your daughter that you haven't seen in 30 years.
"There's a certain amount of pain that goes into that. So torturous is just being dramatic. It's painful. It's not easy."
"It's painful for anybody. That's just part of the job of being an actor. It's one of the things you have to do. Every job has those things that are tough."
Over the last few years Hoffman has become one of the most sought after and respected talents after winning an Oscar for his role as Truman Capote in Capote, which followed him during his research for his book In Cold Blood.
Since then he has enjoyed two further Oscar nominations, both for Supporting Actor, for Charlie Wilson's War and Doubt.
His latest movie teamed him up with filmmaker Richard Curtis and actor Bill Nighy in comedy The Boat That Rocked.
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