Dustin Hoffman remembers Teri Garr after ‘Tootsie’ co-star’s death

Dustin Hoffman is mourning the death of his “Tootsie” co-star, Teri Garr.

“Teri was brilliant and exceptional in everything she did and had a heart of gold,” Hoffman, 87, said in a statement provided to The Post on Tuesday. “Working with her was one of the great highs. There was no one like her.”

Garr died Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, her publicist, Heidi Schaeffer, confirmed to The Post.

The actress is survived by her daughter, Molly O’Neil, 30, and grandson, Tyryn, 6.

Garr played Hoffman’s friend and sometimes love interest, Sandy Lester, in the 1982 film “Tootsie.” She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work.

“I was proud. The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!” Garr wrote about the Oscar nod in his 2005 memoir, “Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood.”

Garr recalled Hoffman being in her corner while working on “Tootsie” and talking AV Club in 2008.

Explaining that she was hesitant to take on a supporting role as she had just starred in the film “One From The Heart”, Garr revealed that director Sydney Pollack talked her into taking the job.

“He said, ‘We’re going to make it fun.’ It’s going to be really good and we’ll take all the ideas you have,'” she recalled. “So I started writing stuff about her right away — about Sandy Lester — and he let me do it. And I loved that.”

“Dustin had beaten him into submission, so he’d say, ‘If you have an idea, tell Sydney,'” she added of Hoffman. “So I said, ‘Put the camera over there and I’m going to rush out of the bathroom and say, ‘What is the matter with you? I’ve been in there for half an hour screaming! Doesn’t anyone care?’ That was a good part in the movie, wasn’t it? And I made that up.”

In addition to the Sydney Pollack classic, the comedy legend was known for his role in Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein.”

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