(director) Mike Nichols claims that the final “sobering” emotion that Benjamin and Elaine go through was due to the fact that he had just been shouting at the two of them to laugh in the scene. The actors were so scared that after laughing they stopped, scared. Nichols liked it so much, he kept it.
Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman & Katharine Ross on the set of ‘The Graduate’ with director Mike Nichols, photographed by Bob Willoughby, 1967.
FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME |The Gradutate (1967), Mike Nichols.
Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.
