Where Are They Now?
She’s A He? Snakkle Catches Up With The Academy Award-Winning Cast Of Tootsie, 31 Years Later!
"I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man.” No truer words have ever been spoken by… well, a man dressed as a woman to the woman he loves. When the detail-oriented Dorsey hears of a casting call for the soap opera Southwest General, he goes for it… but as “Dorothy Michaels.” Chaos (and comedy) ensues as Michael dressed as “Dorothy” falls for his lovely costar, becomes a TV sensation, and his life gets soapy in more ways than one. Tootsie and its all-star cast were nominated for a whopping ten Academy Awards! Read on to find out where they are now. By Brittany Carson
Columbia Pictures
Dabney Coleman as Ron Carlisle in Tootsie (1982)
Talk about a soap opera! Dabney Coleman plays the sexist soap opera director who is in a relationship with his actress employee, the sweet single mom Julie Nichols (Jessica Lange)—whom Michael (Dustin) has a crush on. Although director Sydney Pollack played Hoffman’s agent, George Fields, that role was originally written for Dabney Coleman. The director still wanted Coleman for the film and recast him as the despicable male chauvinist—a role Coleman had already perfected a few years earlier as sexist boss Franklin M. Hart Jr. in the comedy 9 to 5.
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