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Alex Borstein recalls Dustin Hoffman scolding her after she called herself ugly: 'He lost his s---'

Alex Borstein says Dustin Hoffman scolded her for calling herself ugly: 'He lost his s---,' she recalls during EW's Bold School panel at Comic-Con, alongside Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Claudia Doumit, Kate Mulgrew, and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

When asked about industry pet peeves by moderator and EW senior writer Maureen Lee Lanker, Borstein cited the "wild obsession and focus on youth and beauty," calling it "so boring" and apologizing to "all the beautiful young people" in the packed Hall H before diving into her anecdote about Hoffman, who plays an actor who reinvents himself as an actress in 1982's Tootsie. The Rings of Power star noted, "I feel like people are willing to call it out more, but sometimes, I still see someone behave in the craziest way and everyone's pretending like it’s not happening. Ralph cited pay inequity for women and declared that it "really must stop," prompting Mulgrew to quip, "Good luck with that, Sheryl."

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