sentences:  In a 1979 "Time" magazine interview, Streep claimed that Hoffman groped her breast on their first meeting.The two actors battled over their characters, with Streep wanting to portray Joanna as more sympathetic and vulnerable than she was written.As a famously committed method actor, Hoffman would also hurl insults and obscenities at Streep, taunting her with the name of her recently deceased fiancé, John Cazale, to draw a better performance out of her.