>De Niro famously got a New York cab licence and drove a taxi for his role in Taxi Driver, and learned Italian and lived in Sicily for The Godfather Part II. Al Pacino pretended to be blind while making Scent of a Woman. DiCaprio ate raw bison liver and climbed inside a horse carcass during the filming of The Revenant. Shia LaBeouf pulled out one of his teeth during production of Fury, and Garfield stopped eating or having sex while playing a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese’s Silence.
What some people call “method acting” is mostly just research about a role or trying to get into character. You don’t need to live that life 24/7 or take it home to your children. Also, why is that exclusive to women? I don’t think any male actor’s partner or children would want them coming home as the role they’re playing in their next movie.
What is she talking about? Lady Gaga did it for House of Gucci. I get not everyone is Lady Gaga but it can be done by women.
Personally I believe “method acting” is just BS for people who can’t really act.
What is mentioned in the article is more on the research side, but when someone is “method acting” it’s usually some mentally insane role and they end up abusing other people on set.
I am more concerned that acting is becoming a career that is only affordable to the rich.
Oh Jesus Christ Natalie
Yup. If you’re being an abusive asshole on set, that’s only tolerated for some actors, and all of those actors are men, older, powerful and almost always white.
Charlize Theron didn’t do it for Monster either, for example. It’s just unnecessary and narcissistic.
This is my favourite summary of method acting:
(*Dustin) Hoffman told him (Laurence Olivier) that he had filmed a scene in which his character was supposed to have been up for three days straight. “So what did you do?” Olivier asked. “Well, I stayed up for three days and three nights.” Laurence Olivier then uttered this famous line, “Why don’t you just try acting?”*
Why not? What makes a woman’s sacrifice any more or less than a man’s? Just asking out of curiosity.
Pretty clever ploy given she cannot act. At all.
Didn’t she go method for Black Swan? Others that come to mind are Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Hillary Swank, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Anne Hathaway, Sally Field, etc.
Maybe she’s just not good enough
It’s 100% a luxury they can afford, but it’s surely not a luxury they can get away with easily.
The media seem to really want to make out there is this big divide between method actors and others.
It describes Natalie Portman as not a method actor, but she spent months learning ballet. But Robert Deniro drove a taxi and so he was a method actor?
I have see her referred to as a method actor too.
I really doubt anyone but Jared Leto goes that far.
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>De Niro famously got a New York cab licence and drove a taxi for his role in Taxi Driver, and learned Italian and lived in Sicily for The Godfather Part II. Al Pacino pretended to be blind while making Scent of a Woman. DiCaprio ate raw bison liver and climbed inside a horse carcass during the filming of The Revenant. Shia LaBeouf pulled out one of his teeth during production of Fury, and Garfield stopped eating or having sex while playing a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese’s Silence.
What some people call “method acting” is mostly just research about a role or trying to get into character. You don’t need to live that life 24/7 or take it home to your children. Also, why is that exclusive to women? I don’t think any male actor’s partner or children would want them coming home as the role they’re playing in their next movie.
What is she talking about? Lady Gaga did it for House of Gucci. I get not everyone is Lady Gaga but it can be done by women.
Personally I believe “method acting” is just BS for people who can’t really act.
What is mentioned in the article is more on the research side, but when someone is “method acting” it’s usually some mentally insane role and they end up abusing other people on set.
I am more concerned that acting is becoming a career that is only affordable to the rich.
Oh Jesus Christ Natalie
Yup. If you’re being an abusive asshole on set, that’s only tolerated for some actors, and all of those actors are men, older, powerful and almost always white.
Charlize Theron didn’t do it for Monster either, for example. It’s just unnecessary and narcissistic.
This is my favourite summary of method acting:
(*Dustin) Hoffman told him (Laurence Olivier) that he had filmed a scene in which his character was supposed to have been up for three days straight. “So what did you do?” Olivier asked. “Well, I stayed up for three days and three nights.” Laurence Olivier then uttered this famous line, “Why don’t you just try acting?”*
[source (but it’s been repeated by many other sources as well)](https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/method-to-the-madness-3-actors-that-took-method-acting-to-the-next-level/#:~:text=Hoffman%20told%20him%20that%20he,t%20you%20just%20try%20acting%3F%E2%80%9D)
She talks a lot of shit on her press tours.
Why not? What makes a woman’s sacrifice any more or less than a man’s? Just asking out of curiosity.
Pretty clever ploy given she cannot act. At all.
Didn’t she go method for Black Swan? Others that come to mind are Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Hillary Swank, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Anne Hathaway, Sally Field, etc.
Maybe she’s just not good enough
It’s 100% a luxury they can afford, but it’s surely not a luxury they can get away with easily.
The media seem to really want to make out there is this big divide between method actors and others.
It describes Natalie Portman as not a method actor, but she spent months learning ballet. But Robert Deniro drove a taxi and so he was a method actor?
I have see her referred to as a method actor too.
I really doubt anyone but Jared Leto goes that far.