{"id":433818,"date":"2025-12-08T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433818\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:32:10","slug":"kristen-stewart-calls-out-mens-method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433818\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart Calls Out Men&#8217;s Method Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Stewart Calls Out Men&#8217;s Method Acting<\/p>\n<p>      Now, method acting is <a href=\"https:\/\/strasberg.edu\/about\/what-is-method-acting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traditionally<\/a> about using your own lived experiences to inform how you portray a character&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/evelinamedina\/which-human-emotion-are-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotions<\/a>. However, it&#8217;s become popularly known as when an actor takes on the persona of their character for the duration of the project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jeremyhayes\/actors-who-took-method-acting-too-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ewuraamaquarshie\/actors-who-learnt-instruments-for-movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrien Brody<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/daily\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-adam-driver-good-bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jared Leto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/trendyghost618\/you-wont-believe-these-celebs-started-out-as-extras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Day-Lewis<\/a>, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>      In a conversation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/06\/magazine\/kristen-stewart-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, Kristen was asked whether she related to Marlon Brando&#8217;s approach to method acting, specifically when he pronounced &#8220;Krypton&#8221; as &#8220;Kryp-tin&#8221; in a Superman movie to retain &#8220;artistic independence&#8221; while doing a &#8220;sellout&#8221; movie. &#8220;Poor male actors. It must be so painful,&#8221; Kristen remarked.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"js-placeholder-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=YY5tIJpH0YE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      View this video on YouTube<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  New York Times \/ Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YY5tIJpH0YE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;That kick-started so many things! Performance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine. There\u2019s no bravado in suggesting that you\u2019re a mouthpiece for someone else\u2019s ideas,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It\u2019s inherently submissive. Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      Kristen continued, &#8220;Men are aggrandized for retaining self. Brando sounds like a hero, doesn\u2019t he? If a woman did that, it would be different. If you have to do 50 push-ups before your close-up or refuse to say a word a certain way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;There\u2019s a common act that happens before the acting happens on set: If they can protrude out of the vulnerability and feel like a gorilla pounding their chest before they cry on camera, it\u2019s a little less embarrassing. It also makes it seem like a magic trick, like it is so impossible to do what you\u2019re doing that nobody else could do it,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>      Calling the &#8220;Krypton&#8221; moment &#8220;defensive,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;I had a recent conversation that will speak to this. I asked a fellow actor: Have you ever met a female actor that was method and needed to scream and do a whole thing? As soon as I said &#8216;male actor, female actor,&#8217; the reaction was like, Do not mention the elephant in the room. And he goes, &#8216;Oh, actresses are crazy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      Her words quickly made the rounds:<\/p>\n<p>      You can read the full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/06\/magazine\/kristen-stewart-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart Calls Out Men&#8217;s Method Acting Now, method acting is traditionally about using your own lived experiences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37420,171,5603,37656,67,132,68,45534],"class_list":{"0":"post-433818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dib-celebs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lgbtq","11":"tag-timely","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-womens-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115685382349336578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}