Brian broke the story of Philip Seymour Hoffman's untimely passing in Movie News earlier, and now further details have emerged regarding the actor's death.
According to the New York Post, Seymour Hoffman was found by his assistant at around 11.30am this morning in the bathroom of his apartment in Greenwich Village with a hypodermic needle still in his arm. The assistant called police who are currently at the scene investigating what happened. An official cause of death has yet to be established.
Philip had struggled with substance abuse in his early career, and first went to rehab after graduating from New York University in 1989.
Speaking about his struggle he told The Guardian in 2011: "It was pretty bad, you know what I mean. And I know, deep down, I still look at the idea of drinking with the same ferocity that I did back then. It's still pretty tangible.I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped... It's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am."
Philip managed to stay clean for 23 years but checked into rehab again in 2012 after returning to drugs.
The star, who won the Best Actor Oscar for Capote in 2005, was also nominated for three Best Supporting Actor Oscars for roles in The Master, Doubt, and Charlie Wilson's War. Boogie Nights, Moneyball, Punch Drunk Love, and The Big Lebowski are just some of the other mesmerising films he's been in.
He also starred in The Savages, arguably one of the better films ever made.
