During the filming of
Vigilato speciale (1978), Ericsson visited the set to watch her (then) husband,
Sandy Baron shoot one of his scenes with
Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman spied her behind the cameramen and, without knowing she was Baron's wife, pointed at her and said, "You! You look like a gangster's wife! Come over here..." Hoffman immediately cast her in the scene they were shooting. Being a writer by training and trade, Ericsson never aspired to be an actress before or since.
