Method Acting is WRONG

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Thank you !!! My coach is big on method acting and I honestly started living the studio as an emotional mess and thought to myself … this is not healthy!! I love acting but I don’t want to feel like this ! I thought it was just me … so glad to have a professional speaking about this topic !!

Maryl told afterwards that she's never done same anymore because it was way too traumatizing both for her and the crew

Please give me the link of the funny video

I still hate Jared Leto’s method acting for Joker. What in the hell made him think that was okay? The Joker literally wouldn’t do that.

I had an acting teacher get a call from a director. One of his past students was in a play he was directing that had a puppet that the actor had to physically punch. The actor called the director after their first night crying and asked if the puppet was hurt.The director called the teacher the next morning to tell him to cut it out because "He doesn't do that sh*t".

I feel like method acting does have its merits. It's not that method acting has to always be extreme, it's more so that we typically hear about the actors that take it way too far. I think that method actors can find smarter ways to internalize their characters without crossing the line externally or completely damaging themselves in the process. There is a balance that can be made imo.

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Its acting so it makes sense it can be turned on and off, the method part of it isn't needed

Remember heath ledger died because of method acting

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Great video! I totally agree with everything you’re saying. If a child actor had to play a sick or abused character, who in their right mind would support method acting! It would literally be child abuse to encourage a child actor in any way to stay in such a character. This is common sense, if it wouldn’t be allowed for a child actor to protect their physical and mental health, why would anyone encourage an approach that is potentially so self destructive?

"Method acting" has gotten a bad reputation sadly. What people refer to as method acting is often just extreme immersion from the Lee Strasberg method.
I kind of hate that the term has been watered down because it's actually a fascinating subject.
It's funny to use Pattinson as an example though, since he did a good bit of method work when filming The Lighthouse, including some weird stuff that even Willem Dafoe thought was a bit too much like eating mud lmao.

The only exception to method acting is Daniel Day-Lewis (Christian Bale is not a true method actor, so I am not mentioning him. He stays himself through sets, just changes his weight and accent). I know people would say he's insane, which he is, but he seems to figure it out. Leto is clearly trying to be like Day-Lewis, but it's not working. Day-Lewis is the actor who can consistently put out all-time great performances, therefore I do believe he has figured it out. What benefits him though is how few films he's done and the directors he's worked with. When a solid chuck of all films he's been on are from Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, and Jim Sheridan (all three extremely passionate filmmakers), I think that helps Day-Lewis. Some people just know how to balance things, such as Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino. Some people just go too far, such as Jared Leto. Some people just perfect method acting, such as Daniel Day-Lewis.

There’s a major difference between learning what your character does or who they are, and doing things that will hurt people or yourself.

I have so much respect for you for sharing this! THANK YOU! 🙏🙏

It comes across as pretentious to me...

Well said.

For me there is an exception for Daniel day Lewis

In all the movies and shows I’ve seen Lady Gaga in, I’ve never seen the character she’s playing. I’ve only ever seen Lady Gaga. Seems weird that she calls herself a method actor when audiences can only ever see Lady Gaga playing Lady Gaga in a movie. She’s not immersive enough, she plays herself constantly

I believe there's also a different type of method acting. There are a lot of actors and actresses who used method but able to snap out of it as soon as the camera stop rolling, and there are also a lot of them who stayed on character throughout the filming (like you pointed out in this video) which became an issue in the long run.
Can you give advice about how to snap out of character in doing method acting in case it was really necessary for the actors or actresses to do it?

Yeahhh you don’t know what you’re talking about

To be fair, what Jared Leto and Meryl Streep are doing in these examples, is NOT Method Acting, at least according to the technique created by Lee Strasberg. Just like Lady Gaga, I studied at the Strasberg Institute, so I understand what she is trying to say in that clip, and I assure you, it has nothing to do with what Leto or Streep did. It actually comes closer to what Tom Holland talks about, although it is a much broader technique than what he conveys. I hate when actors use "the method" as an excuse to be a**holes and I wish people learned more about this technique, what it is truly about, not judge it by what people like Leto do and then criticize it.

Whenever I see the term method acting, Brian Cox's words always play in my head.
"Why don't you try acting?"
He's got a point, you know. An obvious point.

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Leto is a creep.

Nah Jared was on something else which is why his Joker was a joke er..

Thank you for delving in this topic! as a college theatre actor myself that joins competitions, I myself have dealt with the cons of sole idea of method, specifically stanislavski, and as I found my craft improving in the chekhov, I learned that each actor indeed prospers in different styles.

It's rather transparent when you look at the people that use Leto's type of "method acting"--Pattinson nailed it. You see rebellious edgelords getting carried away with unpleasant or creepy characters because it is a fun excuse to just lash out with every taboo thing they can think of without consequences. It's a niche variety of people being extremely vulgar and rude online because they can hide behind anonymity there...imagine the illicit thrill some might get from being PAID to treat others badly and then just call it art. I'm sure some of them have convinced themselves that they are being all sorts of artistic, but I am also sure that a few of them are privately laughing all the way to the bank.

Method acting finished Eric Stoltz in "Back to the Future". Did Heath Ledger succeed in "The Dark Knight" by method acting?

I'm waiting for him to explain fighting holding guns shooting guns .... to learn that before going into an action movie method acting

This is not Method acting at all though so why call it this? Another big mistake made with this term being thrown around.
One should first learn more about the actual one and only Method acting whose founder in the west is Lee Strasberg who based his Method approach based on Stanislavsky’s Method. None of these behaviors were ever taught by Lee Strasberg or the Method we all are referring to.
Don’t spread wrong information about the Method please as it only fuels the propaganda of what a lot of actors do that never ever has fallen under that actual umbrella and yet people go around spreading the word. Totally wrong.
I studied the Method for 4 years at the Strasberg Institute and recommend anybody needing to know what it is to go inform themselves there.
All the best of luck to all. ❤

I just discovered your channel and I loved it! It's amazing how distorted the concept of "method acting" is, to the point of justifying inappropriate behavior on sets. In fact, there is another type of practice that is both deified and overrated, and that is what we could call "method directing," where you literally have directors mistreating their actors to get better performances. Cases like Kubrick's with Shelley Duvall in "The Shining," or Michel Gondry telling Jim Carrey that he hopes he doesn't recover from his depression because he would look "beautiful" for Eternal Sunshine... It's terrible. For me, literally, if a director is not capable of creating his vision without mistreating his crew, then he is not a good director at all, just a visionary. And this type of behavior is celebrated quite a bit in some schools. I remember that I literally had a classmate who told me that if he had to cut off his actor's finger for a shot, he would do it. And then he would see how to pay him or compensate him. Well, "anything goes for the film, anything goes" and the same thought "we're not just making a film, we're changing the world." Disturbing. Very, very good content! I loved it! And it gives us a lot to talk about how we can lead this industry in the future in a safer, more exciting and fun way. Greetings! ✨