But after all of the hair and makeup, Hoffman says "I was shocked that I wasn't more attractive."

"I said, 'now that you have me looking like a woman, make me a beautiful woman," Hoffman recalls. "If I was going to be a woman, I'd want to be as beautiful as possible. And they told me, 'that's as good as it gets, that's as beautiful as we can get you.'"

It was at that moment I had an epiphany, and I went home and started crying. Talking to my wife, I said I have to make this picture, and she said, "Why?" And I said, "Because I think I am an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen. And I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn't fulfill physically the demands that we're brought up to think women have to have in order to ask them out." She says, "What are you saying?" And I said, "There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed."

Holy crap, I think I might have just fallen in love with this man.