A loooong Jeremy Strong interview that discusses his method acting

[silverstarry]

“To me, the stakes are life and death,” Jeremy Strong said, about playing Kendall Roy in “Succession.” “I take him as seriously as I take my own life.” https://t.co/0P9BkUFect
- The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 6, 2021

Some choice quotes/anecdotes:

Comments

[therearewords]

Good gracious OP, is there anything left of the interview?

“I jumped off a stage, thinking I could fly, but it turns out I can’t,” he said. “It made sense in the moment, though.”
... boy

[silverstarry]

If you can believe it, there's even more in the interview. There was a whole section about how he became Daniel Day Lewis' assistant on The Last of the Mohicans and DDL's method acting (among other things).

One tidbit that made me sad: this parents didn't have a lot of money so they kept a canoe in the backyard that Jeremy and his brother could sit in it and pretend they were on vacation. I know that not going on vacation is NOT the end of the world (I can count on one hand how many family vacations I went on as a kid) but the visual of two kids just sitting in a canoe made me a little sad.

But yeah, it sounds like his is exhausting to deal with in any capacity.

[maryhurt]

Its like joey and chandler on that friends ep

[evett]

the fact that he's seriously hurt himself twice on the set of succession going off script makes me wonder in last night's episode if he was actually inhaling water because he's just so ~method~

[sisterruth]

The profile literally states he's not a method actor.

[inwazyja]

the stories literally contradict that.

[sisterruth]

They don't. They somewhat fit into popular misconceptions of what the method is, but what is being described is not in fact the method.

And as back-up, I'm going to link you to a historian of acting and acting techniques, who states the following:

"(And I’m glad Strong knows that his full immersion techniques aren’t The Method!)" (from: https://twitter.com/parabasis/status/1467626745167855622). The writer is publishing this book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/method-9781635574777/

[bullybreed]

Honestly I feel like popular media, but also actors themselves, are the biggest propellers of this misconception, so it makes sense the general public equates method acting=actors remaining in character on and off set. Like the method is really about the training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage a more expressive performance, but when you have story after story of DDL making the crew hand feed him or w/e the fuck Leto does on set, like no wonder ppl think method acting is about 24/7 larping during production

[evett]

oh let me clarify I mean ~identity diffusion method acting~

[masktaster]

honestly, I fucking hate method actors but he's consistently been good so even tho I've read of other actors having to deal w/ him on set, I think in this instance I give him a pass??

like...he's genuinely delivered and if that's his process I'm not going to fault him as long as he's not disrespectful and not difficult with their team

[callonme_84]

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