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Method Acting is a performance preparation technique where an actor pushes beyond what they do in front of the camera or audience and tries to replicate the life circumstances, mannerisms and emotional feelings of the character they portray, so as to give realism, legitimacy and dramatic strength to their performance. A distinction, though, is that method acting can be as simple as running a few laps around a track in order to look exhausted... because they are. But a method actor seeks to absorb everything about a character and the environment so that it is not really acting but altering themselves to become someone new. This often streamlines and strengthens the performance; rather than 20 takes of laughing with the cast and crew passing before you find the right line reading, method acting means you are always "on" and can hit those high points faster. The caveat is that when taken too far, it can have a negative impact on your relationships, mental or physical health, and even the production. A character in a deep depression can bleed into the actor, making them unable to shake it off when the production is over. Actors can gain or lose weight to fit a character who is morphologically different from him, which helps them find a new way of carrying themselves (some like Robert De Niro and Christian Bale are infamous for it), but improper diet, training and metabolism changes can be harmful. Though Method Acting has produced powerful and affecting performances, it is increasingly finding itself coming under fire for its inherent limitations. Method actors are pretty notorious as being hard to work with because of their involvement with their roles. When all's said and done, method acting is a search for perfection in performance, so method actors sometimes have confrontations with cast and crew over the direction his character takes. Also, well, it's hard to give directions to an actor when he's in-character even off-camera (note that not all Method Actors do this, although they do have a reputation for it). Nonetheless, many of the greatest performances in movie history have resulted from an actor who completely immersed himself in the role. See Enforced Method Acting, when outside influences craft an environment appropriate to the performance, and Acting in the Dark for when the production puts the actors in a blind spot. There's also some overlap with Kayfabe, when the line between reality and "the act" becomes blurred. When a writer/director casts an actor for his natural fit into a role (natural method acting, if you may), see Write Who You Know. If the character falls too deep into their role, they may become Lost in Character. Technically speaking, Method Acting refers to an outgrowth of Konstantin Stanislavski's technique as developed and popularized by Lee Strasberg. Stanislavski's own method, further developed after Strasberg's contact with the Russian's theories, is known as the System. In fact, in acting circles, there are several schools of the Method. Strasberg's version is the best known, with the Actor's Studio being the most revered training ground. But there are also the theories of Stella Adler (who counted both Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro among her students), who was the only one to apprentice under Stanislavski himself. She felt Strasberg's focus on personal identification with the character got Stanislavski all wrong, and that the performer should be using his or her imagination to develop their performance. Sanford Meisner, who knew both Strasberg and Adler personally, developed his own spin on Method ideas, centered on the belief that performers should learn to act based on instinct (Meisner's long list of protégés include Gregory Peck, Steve McQueen, Grace Kelly, and Jeff Goldblum). There is, needless to say, much debate between followers as to which is the "true" Method, with the likes of Elia Kazan believing it to be a highly personal, subjective actor-to-actor thing rather than a dogma. It should be noted that while for Stanislavski it was important that every actor (for example, even those playing 'Guard #3') research heavily and work just as hard as the actors playing the lead characters, Method Acting in modern cinema is usually only practised by the leading actors for main characters. In addition, one of the most well-known aspects, emotional/affective memory, is a cornerstone in the more modern development of the Method, whereas Stanislavski later noted its limitations in eliciting performance after one protégé had a mental breakdown. Needless to say, the process is controversial for a reason. Not only is it physically and emotionally exhausting, but it can alter the activity of a person's brain to fit the character they're portraying; staying in one role for too long will cause that character to gradually override the actor's state of mind, and suddenly dropping the character after a performance is complete can really throw the actor for a loop. In many cases, method acting gone wrong can result in the actor facing severe mental health issues and a lack of personal identity, hence the aforementioned case of Stanislavski's student breaking down. Actors who specialize in method acting often have to take long breaks between roles in order to recover from the immense strain they cause, and some, like Daniel Day-Lewis, retire much earlier than non-method actors partly because of the dangers posed by the craft. On top of this, method actors often feel the need to undergo extreme physical changes to fit the part, such as Christian Bale gaining and losing a hundred pounds for Batman or The Machinist, or Brad Pitt deliberately re-chipping a tooth for Fight Club. Even when you're not making it a point to break bones or teeth for a film, those sorts of changes can leave permanent scars on your body and its responses to future situations. This is not a good thing. British actors generally mock the trope. They find the Method to be unnecessary, and believe the actor doesn't become the character — the character becomes the actor. |
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act-age has two distinct examples: Kei is utterly unable to act a scene unless she can vividly feel the same emotions as her character, so either she recalls those emotions from her past experiences, or she finds a way to recreate them indirectly. Myoujin Araya, introduced in chapter 23, outright experiences the living conditions of his characters. That can include holing up in the mountains for a month and hunting bears — and he does kill one. |
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While filming Morbius (2022), Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius' initial diseased state that he used crutches even off-camera, which became a problem after he reportedly took 45-minute bathroom breaks, which hindered production. Eventually, the studio and Leto were able to come to a compromise by just having him use a wheelchair instead. | |
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One Season 4 episode of Gilmore Girls has Kirk attempting to get in character when he was cast as Jesus in The Last Supper for the festival of living pictures. He went overboard with it by eating lentil, wearing robes, preaching to the crowd and despising one of his neighbors who is cast as Judas Iscariot that it nearly led into a brawl between them. | |
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Maya Kitajima from Glass Mask acts by imagining herself as the character and thinking like them instead of following the script. Play a blind-deaf girl? Live several days with bound eyes and plugged ears. Play a wolf? Drive your roommate insane by only walking on all fours and communicating with animal noises. One notable example of her training includes pretending to eat her favourite food from an empty bowl by her past experience of eating ramen while the rest failed to do so. | |
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BoJack Horseman has an episode in which Naomi Watts plays the role of Diane in a movie. She goes "into" the role in a very creepy way that Diane finds very off-putting. | |
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During the last episodes of Bones, T.J. Thyne was reported to have stayed in the wheelchair Hodgins used after becoming paralyzed even between takes. | |
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According to the "Making of a Legend" featurette on 20th Anniversary DVD of RoboCop (1987), Peter Weller attempted to do this in the first few weeks of filming, insisting that the cast and crew call him either (depending on the scene) RoboCop, Alex or Murphy during filming. This later got dropped, but director Paul Verhoeven, and actors Kurtwood Smith (Boddicker) and the late Miguel Ferrer (Morton) thought it was too silly and respectively refused to indulge it, refused to talk to Weller outside of filming scenes together for the first week, and busted his chops over it. | |
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Personality Swap AU starts with the entirety of Class 1A trying to act as one of their classmates, though the only two with any success are Izuku and Katsuki, who are playing each other. Aizawa, impressed by Izuku's perfect portrayal of Katsuki, sends him several other such assignments. Every time, Izuku stays completely in character the entire day, including using their fighting styles and finding a way to imitate their Quirks. Given that Izuku will share information that only his characters should know and seamlessly switch places/work with them,note Toshinori finds Izuku-as-Snipe sharing a story that only Toshinori himself and Snipe know and Mei and Izuku-as-Mei perfectly work together on various gadgets, even passing each other needed tools without speaking a word several note that it's almost as though he's been possessed by his role. | |
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The bread and butter of the Villain Team in Hero Class Civil Warfare. Izuku even studied several famous fictional supervillains to understand what made them compelling. Izuku even has the villain team spend time together before the exercise so they would get used to seeing themselves as a team. He even has Momo and Mei make all them specialized suits and dresses so they could deeper commit to the role. | |
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In Castle (2009), Natalie Rhodes is preparing to play Nikki Heat. To do so, she shadows Kate Beckett, the detective who inspired the character, imitating and analyzing everything she does. | |
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One Mr. Show skit features a (fictional) documentary about a method actor named Borden Grote (played by David Cross) who did research (about doctors and... crowds) for roles in which he appeared for seconds. The documentary features him after he's removed the frontal lobe of his brain to prepare for a role involving abuses at a mental institution. The interviewer and his staff talk about his lifestyle seemingly unaware of something being wrong with him. Cross revealed that he was influenced to make this sketch after hearing about Meryl Streep supposedly laying on a block of ice to play herself dead in a film. | |
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Many Narcos cast members personally met the historical figures they would portray on the show, in order to ensure the authenticity of their performances. Boyd Holbrook in particular arranged for himself and Pedro Pascal to receive a week of DEA training from the real Steve Murphy and Javier Peña. | |
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Shadow of the Vampire. The director explains to the cast that Max Schreck is a dedicated actor of the Method school who keeps his makeup on and always stays in character. In truth, he's a real vampire. Incidentally, the real-life Max Schreck wasn't a Method actor — he kept his makeup on while filming Nosferatu because it was too much trouble to remove. | |
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To better understand the character of Hercule Poirot, David Suchet read Agatha Christie's novels and stories in depth to create a detailed written dossier that he'd regularly consult to make sure his performance was in keeping with what he thought was Christie's vision. In addition, he'd maintain the character's accent and mannerisms as long as the mustache was on his lip. | |
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In Hoodwinked!, Kirk Kirkkendall is an actor trying to land the job as the lumberjack character in a TV commercial for Paul's Bunion Foot Cream (which has the "soothing formula to make the bunions head for the hills"). When Kirk is told that he's landed the spot, the director instructs him to go out into the forest and cut down an actual tree, emphasizing, "Don't act like a woodsman, be a woodsman." Kirk's first attempts to cut a tree down are unsuccessful due to his spectacular incompetence at holding an axe, though he improves once he comes upon a copy of the book Chopping for Actors. It all goes well until he comes to a giant redwood tree. It becomes almost Fatal Method Acting, since after Kirk has managed to cut away a large "bite" that leaves the tree balancing very precariously, it gives way and falls on top of him. He ends up on top of the trunk as it rolls down a hill, and when it hits a pair of small trees at the bottom, he is catapulted into the window of Granny Puckett's cottage, where by Contrived Coincidence, a domestic disturbance is happening. | |
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The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal and his body doubles, Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder, sometimes continue to wear Mandalorian helmets in between takes, even after shedding the rest of the armor for street clothes. While recording ADR, Pascal copies Mando's motions, going so far as to use a pillow as a decoy for the Child. For scenes that Lucasfilm shot with either Wayne or Crowder instead of Pascal, he'd ask the double for Mando's thoughts and emotions while preparing for the dubbing session. | |
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During filming of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Charles Flesischer was on set so he and Bob Hoskins could play off each other and create a more spontaneous dynamic. Even though he was standing off to the side, off camera, Fleischer insisted on wearing rabbit ears, overalls, and a bowtie, saying it helped him get in the mindset of a cartoon character. | |
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In Don't Starve: Reign of Giants, Wigfrid the Viking Warrior is actually just an actress, dedicated to living out her latest role despite the circumstances. | |
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In Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Mike Shiner is an extreme proponent of this. He drinks real gin on stage during a preview performance, nearly rapes Leslie while on stage, and demands that Riggan get a more realistic looking gun, all in an effort to be "more real". | |
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In The Owl House fanfic Method Acting, Luz decides to try this after getting the part of Ghoulliette in a school play, even speaking in Flowery Elizabethan English. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chadwick Boseman spoke in his character's African accent in between takes and during bloopers so he wouldn't lose it. | |
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Polly Holiday as Mrs. Deagle in Gremlins, leading Zach Galligan to think that she really wasn't a nice person. | |
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The story "Type Cast" in issue #24 of Creepy Magazine features Roland Bryce, who, forced into horror roles despite hating them, gets in-character by actually mutilating corpses, sacrificing animals and so on. He eventually snaps from guilt and pressure and strangles his agent, ending up in an asylum, which he's mistakenly released from some time later. The asylum director, calling to check on him, is informed that he has a job at another studio. The picture he's appearing in? The Story of Jack the Ripper... | |
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In The Cry of Mann, Sam, Taylor and Casper all admit to getting very deep into their roles. Sam spent three months acting as a mailman and even continued to stay in-character while on set. Taylor spent her days reading real-world missing-persons reports and gave her very minor character some deep, dark backstory. Casper... checks his mail and his email daily. | |
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When he was cast as Cardassian spy-turned-tailor Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Andrew Robinson prepared for his role by writing a 200-plus page character outline and Backstory for Garak, which he used as his personal bible for the character. The show's producers approved of most of his backstory, except for portions that went counter to established Cardassian history. Robinson later used most of his outline as the basis for his Expanded Universe novel A Stitch In Time. | |
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Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder is famous for taking method acting to ridiculous extremes, having gotten plastic surgery to play a black man for his role in the Movie Within the Movie. And for all of his roles, he always stays in character 24/7 until he is done recording the DVD Commentary. In the actual DVD Commentary, Robert Downey Jr. stayed true to his character's word and did it entirely in-character as Kirk Lazarus in-character as Lincoln Osiris. When he gets to the "I don't break character until after the DVD commentary" line in the movie, he continues as Kirk Lazarus. When Lazarus finally breaks character near the end of the movie, so does Robert Downey Jr. in the commentary. | |
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Most of the cast of Band of Brothers went through Enforced Method Acting, but Frank John Hughes (Bill Guarnere) was a full-on method actor. The actors playing the replacement soldiers were ostracised by most of the cast, but Hughes took Robin Laing under his wing because Guarnere had done so to Babe Heffron. Hughes also carved 'Fran' into his weapon because that had been the name of Guarnere's wife. Mark Huberman (Les Hashey) said that when the real Guarnere came on set, he asked what he thought of the real Hashey. When Guarnere said he never liked him, Huberman joked that as soon as Hughes heard that, he never spoke to him again on set (though he did assure him it was for the sake of method acting). | |
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Victorious: The season one finale has Sikowitz teaching his class about method acting. This involves a contest in which his students must adopt personas and stay in character as long as possible. The last person to stay in character is considered the winner. | |
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When producing Aliens, James Cameron had all of the actors playing the Space Marines attend a Hollywood boot camp, except for the actor playing Lieutenant Gorman. Also, their introductory scenes were filmed last, to give the best impression that these were people who knew each other and worked together. | |
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While playing Elsa in Frozen (2013), Idina Menzel "was holding my hands in the studio and not letting my hands move too much when I was talking� in order to portray the "stereotypically regal" character. | |
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For Attack of the Clones, Jango and Boba Fett actors Temuera Morrison and Daniel Logan continued to call each other "Son" and "Dad" in between takes. | |
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One episode of Dix pour cent involves one of Andréa's actors (Jean Dujardin) getting stuck in-character as a World War I deserter, resulting him building a shelter out of sticks and continuing to hunt rabbits, not shaving or showering, in his own yard. The other agents reference Daniel Day-Lewis and how he got out of it by learning Italian shoemaking — or the cheaper, more efficient method of getting him drunk. Andréa and Dujardin's wife opt for the latter. | |
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In Double Star, Lorenzo Smythe uses some amount of this to get into his characters, and even used the psychotic aspect of one character as a crutch when he had to chop up a body. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", Stanley Tucci plays David Ruskin, a renowned film and stage actor who is to portray Monk in an upcoming film adaptation of the Steve Wagner case ("Mr. Monk and the Astronaut"). To get into the part of Monk, he shadows Monk for a couple of days to learn more about Monk's different mannerisms, and his investigative processes, even being allowed into two different homicide scenes to observe. However, during the second crime scene investigation at a pawnshop, Natalie excuses herself to the back alleyway as Monk coaches Ruskin on how to say his catchphrase "It's a gift and a curse". Monk finds her out back: Natalie's warning does come true. When Stottlemeyer and Disher sit in on a rehearsal of one of the scenes in the TV movie (specifically, the producers' version of the scene at Joanne Raphelson's house), everything goes well (minus the fact that Randy is played by a woman and is Stottlemeyer's romantic partner, which clearly does not go over well with the real Stottlemeyer or Disher) until Ruskin starts performing his lines. He suddenly breaks character in the middle of the take and storms off frustrated due to the mishmash of the crewmen's hats. Things get downhill from there when he ends up basically shooing Monk out of his own apartment. Later, Ruskin is so into the part of Monk that he even goes to the parking garage where Trudy was killed while wearing a wig that could easily allow him to look like Tony Shalhoub, and when the police identify the double homicide's culprit as a car salesman named Jack Leverett, Ruskin misinterprets the news brought to "him" by a parking attendant as being that they've found Trudy's killer. Hence, a simple arrest doesn't work because Ruskin actually takes Leverett hostage with a revolver. The real Monk arrives shortly thereafter and has to talk Ruskin down before he does something outright dangerous. |
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Levi Kreis, the original touring Hermes in Hadestown, kept a 160-page Hermes journal filled with his own headcanons about Hermes' backstory, his relationship with Calliope, how he raised Orpheus, and his relationships with Persephone and Hades, all of which informed his performance onstage. | |
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In Skip Beat!, method acting is the bread and butter of Kyoko, to the extreme of sometimes dressing and acting off-set like the character she is filming now. | |
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Since most of the characters in Dan in Real Life were an extended family coming together for the holidays, the cast lived in the same house for a month in order to facilitate a more natural chemistry with each other. This ended up working out, as the genuine familial atmosphere that the cast shared was one of the film's most praised elements. | |
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When she had a severe staph infection from boxing training for Million Dollar Baby, she didn't tell anyone because, again, she believed that's not what her character would have done. Unfortunately, it almost ended up killing her. | |
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Prior to filming The Hustler (1961), Paul Newman had never held a pool cue before. To prepare for the role, he took out the dining room table from his home and installed a pool table so he could spend all his free time practicing. As part of her research, Piper Laurie actually hung out at the Greyhound bus terminal at night. |
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His role as The Joker in Suicide Squad (2016) became infamous for several incidents regarding his behind-the-scenes antics in the name of getting "in-character", which included things like sending dead animals and used sexual items to his costars. This got him outcast from his costars, and the internet had a field day lampooning his questionable approach to the Method, especially since his character's part was smaller than the level of attention led most to believe. | |
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Ted White as Jason in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, though that was eventually subverted in an awesome moment of Mean Character, Nice Actor. | |
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In one episode of Beetlejuice, the eponymous character ends up playing the role of Captain Ahab in a production of Moby-Dick and gets so into it he starts thinking he really is Ahab. When informed of this, the whale playing Moby just rolls his eyes and makes a disparaging comment about method actors. | |
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The water torture done to JJ Jareau in the 200th episode of Criminal Minds was actually done to actress AJ Cook, who volunteered in order to make it more real. | |
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For Lorenzo's Oil, Nick Nolte followed Augusto Odone around for months, observing and copying minutiae of his speech, dress, gestures, posture, even minor habits — like hanging his glasses off one ear. Odone had wanted Marcello Mastroianni for the role; he thought Nolte made him sound like an ice cream vendor in New York's Little Italy. | |
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On Lois & Clark, John Shea took Lex Luthor very seriously. Not only did he study Nietzsche, but he checked himself into John Jay College of Criminal Justice in-character to get a diagnosis on 'his' pathology. | |
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Fox and O'Hare: Recurring accomplice Boyd Capwell lives and breathes it, to the point where he's willing to go days without brushing his teeth for a mouthwash commercial. | |
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Sticky Dilly Buns satirizes the concept in the person of Dillon, a Camp Gay actor who claims to take the Method very seriously — and who seems to get a lot of cross-dressing roles. | |
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Noises Off mocks the trope with Fred, an American Method actor who can't do anything without having a justification. | |
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Before playing a trans man in Boys Don't Cry, she lived as a man for a month (she was so convincing that her neighbors thought the "young man" was Swank's visiting brother). Also, when the director confronted her about lying about her age when auditioning, she replied that that is what her character would have done. | |
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Leto dialed things waaaaaaay back for his role in Blade Runner 2049 as the blind Niander Wallace, where he opted to wear completely opaque contact lenses and performed unable to see anything. This worked out a lot better as Wallace is a slow, yet heavily-cadenced character who doesn't invite major on-set shenanigans, and the performance was much better-received. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The emotionless android Data discusses how he'd like to reverse the process of method acting, using his performance to gain a better understanding of emotions instead of vice versa. Later, his interest in method acting gets a Continuity Nod when he watches Barclay's Bad "Bad Acting" and grouses that it is certainly not method acting. | |
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