On the Nov. 9 episode of Conan O’Brien’s podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” Dustin Hoffman, 89, dropped a story straight out of a movie — because it nearly ended like one.

Back when he was a young man, he said, he was having an affair with a married woman. She invited him over after her husband fell asleep, figuring he stayed asleep. He didn’t.

“And there we are having a festival of sorts and he walked in with a gun,” Hoffman said. “And he pointed at me. And he said, ‘Get out, get out.'”

Hoffman vividly remembers staring down the barrel and thinking he was done for: “When you have a gun pointed at you, first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole… any second he’s going to pull that trigger, because his finger is on the trigger… I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die the next second.”

“And you do anything, you will do anything, you know, to avoid getting killed.”

He’s telling the story while promoting his memoir “Look at Me,” out Tuesday, Nov. 10. In another excerpt, Hoffman revealed making “The Graduate” was a terrible experience — director Mike Nichols became “an entirely different person” once shooting began (“What were you doing? … Do the opposite of that.”). The film was a huge hit anyway and earned Hoffman his first Oscar nomination.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Dustin Hoffman at Cannes, 2017).

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