Amy Adams has paid tribute to "beautiful spirit" Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The 39-year-old actress was interviewed just days after her 'Doubt' co-star passed away from an apparent drugs overdose earlier this month, and couldn't keep her emotions in check.
Asked about Philip on an episode of 'Inside the Actors Studio' - which aired in the US last night (19.02.14) - she tearfully said: "Gosh, I wish you could all get a chance to work with him. He was beautiful, a beautiful spirit. And he has this unique ability to see people, really see them."
Amy says she will "miss" the actor - who had children Cooper, 10, Tallulah, seven, and five-year-old Willa with estranged partner Mimi O'Donnell - and finds it tough to talk about him.
She added: "And he will be missed. Sorry, I really ...I just really loved him and I know so many people did, and I just don't know how much more I can talk about it now. Sorry."
'The Hunger Games' actor reportedly fell off the wagon in 2012 after being sober for more than 20 years and he entered rehab in May 2013.
Philip was allegedly found with around 70 bags of heroin inside his apartment after Mimi, who had recently kicked him out of their home in an act of "tough love," sent his friend David Bar Katz over to check on him when he failed to show up to spend time with their children.
Some 400 mourners, including Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore and Diane Keaton, attended Philip's private funeral at St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church in Manhattan earlier this month.

James Franco hopes Shia LaBeouf doesn't ruin his career in his quest to show he is an "artist".
The 'Spring Breakers' star believes the 27-year-old actor's recent antics - which have included a silent art installation called #IAMSORRY, donning a paper bag on his head for the German premiere of 'Nymphomaniac' and repeatedly insisting on twitter that he is no longer famous - are part of a bid for him to "reclaim his public persona".
He wrote in an essay for the New York Times newspaper: "This behaviour could be a sign of many things, from a nervous breakdown to mere youthful recklessness.
"For Mr. LaBeouf's sake I hope it is nothing serious. Indeed I hope - and, yes, I know that this idea has pretentious or just plain ridiculous overtones - that his actions are intended as a piece of performance art, one in which a young man in a very public profession tries to reclaim his public persona...
"I think Mr. LaBeouf's project, if it is a project, is a worthy one. I just hope that he is careful not to use up all the good will he has gained as an actor in order to show us that he is an artist."
Franco - who also compared Shia's actions with those of Marlon Brando and Joaquin Phoenix - said he understood what the 'Transformers' star was trying to do because he himself has done his best to change ideas of what people expect from Hollywood stars.
He wrote: "At times I have felt the need to dissociate myself from my work and public image. In 2009, when I joined the soap opera 'General Hospital' at the same time as I was working on films that would receive Oscar nominations and other critical acclaim, my decision was in part an effort to jar expectations of what a film actor does and to undermine the tacit -- or not so tacit -- hierarchy of entertainment."

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