Method acting

That Larry....

Meryl Streep is a Method actor, i think, although she's not obnoxious about it.

I don't see how people can stand working with the ones who remain in character while the cameras aren't rolling, like Daniel Day-Lewis. I guess you can't argue with results, though.

I always curious how American Method actors explain the success of Brits in acting since most of them (Day-Lewis and a few others aside) are NOT Method actors.

Well the Actors' Studio is still in business.

It's been a long time since they've turned out any stars, though.

Many stars nowadays were pushed into acting and commercials as children by their parents. They have years and years of experience on set with multiple directors, but very different training from what formed actors (Method, Shakespearean, or otherwise) like Brando, De Niro, Pacino or Streep.

Given the emphasis now on green screens, CGI and showing people being blown through the air by explosions, I don't think Hollywood thinks that it's missing out on anything.

But there are degrees of Method acting and it isn’t always total method. So often actors stay in character for a number of reasons. Notably, if they are using an accent it can be hard to pick it up and drop it and pick it up again between takes. When they are acting high emotion they’ll stay in character between takes to retain the level etc.

However, pure method acting can be almost intolerable for other actors to work with it. So here the method actor spend ages before a take creating mental situations or walk around off camera in character interacting with people.

The Laurence Olivier comment to Dustin Hoffman summed it up. Fair enough staying in an accent or holding onto an emotional level for a scene, but even a 5 year old in a school play can act out of breath without needing to run around that school playground.

Lawrence Olivia hated method actors. He had particularly vicious things to say about Marilyn Monroe. He said she was a marvelous amateur in one interveiw and in another he said she was a model not an actress.......If you watch he and Monroe in The prince and the showgirl...........she blows him out of the water in every scene. You literally dont even see him. He is hammy and stiff and unwatchable. Maybe he should have sat in on a few sessions at the actors studio so he could give a belivable performance.

It seems the Method is over-acting, scene-chewing schlock.

A lot of the earlier movie actors who were associated with the Actors Studio bristled at the term "Method Acting," because they knew there was more than one method to acting. Brando and Clift especially were critical of Lee Strasberg and felt that he was using their name to promote his version of the Stanislavski method at the Actors Studio. Brando was a disciple of Stella Adler, who disagreed with Strasberg on the application of Stanislavsky's teachings.

One of Strasberg's disciples went on to teach Meryl Streep at Yale for a semester, and they clashed repeatedly. They disagreed on technique. Meryl has gone to say the she doesn't have a specific method, but applies many techniques to get to the heart of the character.

Olivier is the most overrated actor.

Shelley Winters and her hammy actor husband Tony Franciosa, on the other hand, were Strasberg advocates, and they drove everybody crazy with their on-set antics.

Watch Laurence Olivier in the 1952 movie Carrie if you want to see a beautiful and moving performance from him.

Dustin Hoffman and Daniel Day-Lewis are big method actors, but I'm not sure how well it works, because it looks like they're acting most of the time. They're not bad, but they're pretty transparent. Genuinely good acting should not look like acting.

OMG I hate method actors. I was on set once and this guy was yelling about people in his line of sight making him break character. What an asshole.

I find Dustin Hoffman to be insufferable anymore. Maybe he always was. That story about his teenage daughter's best friend was disgusting, to say the least.

R2 Meryl Streep is not a method actor.

[quote][bold]Do you identify with her?[/bold]

[quote]STREEP I couldn't fit in her shoes.

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[quote][bold]Would you have had the courage to print the Pentagon Papers?[/bold]

[quote]STREEP I don't know. I think you only confront your courage in the moment that it's asked of you.

[quote]SPIELBERG I don't think as an actor you have to identify with the character you're playing. You just need to find relevant and metaphoric comparisons to the person you're playing. I always find it a bit of a fallacy that actors have to be who they play.

[quote]STREEP Yeah, thank God. If you're playing Lady Macbeth.

And Meryl Streep absolutely hated Dustin Hoffman and his "Method".

Method actors overthink their performances. they over prepare and stir the soup too much, to the point where they ruin the meal. They also like to think their performance is what makes a role great, when it's actually the editor.

LOL, R14. He is insufferable. Used to occasionally run into him in Pacific Palisades. Total blowhard, even when picking up some coffee.

The better story regarding Dustin Hoffman is his daughter’s mother, whom he has known for all of her life, & even watched her grow up, being that he was good friends with her parents on the day that she was born. Allegedly, he started grooming her, oops, I mean dating her when she turned18.

Ewww R18.

Indeed, R19.

“How I Met Your Mother”, starring Dustin Hoffman.