Director defends Dustin Hoffman against sexual harassment claim, saying he was “a kidder” on set

The Hollywood Reporter

Volker Schlondorff, director of the 1985 CBS TV movie Death of a Salesman, downplayed Anna Graham Hunter's allegations that she was harassed by Hoffman as a 17-year-old intern on set. The German filmmaker says that calling Hoffman a "predator is simply going too far. He added that everybody, including Hunter, gave Hoffman foot massages and if there was any groping, “there was “nothing lecherous about it…He was teasing the young, nervous interns, mostly to make them feel included on the set, treating them as equals to all the senior technicians."