And I wanted a little more generosity to make myself feel more at ease, which is my own ego.
It's kinda wild that she thinks wanting generosity has anything to do with ego, when it's completely normal to expect your scene partner to offer you, you know, actual partnership. Some of the most talented actors I've ever worked with were very generous with their colleagues and quite humble as well. Method~ actors who don't break character even BTS often put a damp on the entire set, cannot stand them.
It’s not as simplistic as evil or nice tho bc within those adjectives you have a multitude of nuances. If a typically shy, reserved actor had to play a character like Jake Peralta from B99 (he’s the first genuinely nice male character I could think of) they’d still need to dive into plenty of stuff that makes the character what he is - the OTTness, the constant joking, the childish games, and the larger than life personality. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t really pay off to be the guy who’s remarkably nice to everyone bc it’s the problematic characters who get praise for their complexity - much like people’s misguided perception that drama is factually harder than comedy.
Having worked with a few too many method actors, I think Robert’s quote makes perfect sense bc the reality is that some people (usually men) just want to be able to openly embrace questionable traits, and using art to do it is the perfect excuse.
It is a shame what 21st century " actors" for the most part have given method acting a bad reputation.
I grew up with " What is my motivation" of seasoned stage to screen actors.
Kate and Leo refusing heated water for " Titanic".
These two comments sums it up for me.
To the general public, “method acting” means “going to extreme, often absurd or unhealthy lengths in order to evoke some sort of character state,
But this is not what method acting actually means. The Method is an rather complex acting system based on some of Stanislavsky’s teachings and writings.Let us put the blame where it belongs
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Yes, I'm aware of what the actual method entails and I find Stanislavski's work great but the problem isn't with the general public's perception, it's with the fact that actors (often male) get to freely butcher the method bc everyone who works with them enables that bullshit. My point was simply about Robert's quote and your comment on how being a good person should come naturally bc there are several complexities to good characters as well, not just to the evil ones. The idea that the method - the actual one and the Hollywood one - should essentially apply to constructing evil characters doesn't make sense to me.
It's kinda wild that she thinks wanting generosity has anything to do with ego, when it's completely normal to expect your scene partner to offer you, you know, actual partnership. Some of the most talented actors I've ever worked with were very generous with their colleagues and quite humble as well. Method~ actors who don't break character even BTS often put a damp on the entire set, cannot stand them.
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like robert pattinson said
you don't see method actors when the role calls for being nice
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This quote annoys me.
To get into the mind of an evil person should be a foreign concept that you would have to study, while being a good person should come naturally.
I don't use the word nice, because nice and kind are two vastly different things.
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Having worked with a few too many method actors, I think Robert’s quote makes perfect sense bc the reality is that some people (usually men) just want to be able to openly embrace questionable traits, and using art to do it is the perfect excuse.
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It is a shame what 21st century " actors" for the most part have given method acting a bad reputation.
I grew up with " What is my motivation" of seasoned stage to screen actors.
Kate and Leo refusing heated water for " Titanic".
These two comments sums it up for me.
To the general public, “method acting” means “going to extreme, often absurd or unhealthy lengths in order to evoke some sort of character state,
But this is not what method acting actually means. The Method is an rather complex acting system based on some of Stanislavsky’s teachings and writings.Let us put the blame where it belongs ( ... )
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