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Post by bibboid on Mar 9, 2024 14:18:54 GMT -5
At least method actors try to get into character. I’d say the opposite end of the spectrum would be actors who have exactly one character that they play over and over. Back in the early 2000’s that would have been Tom Green. Nowadays it would be Randall Park.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 9, 2024 16:19:31 GMT -5
I dunno but its whatever Laurence Olivier was. "Acting, my boy, have you TRIED it?" That and Robert Pattinson's take "you only ever see people doing Method when they’re playing an asshole. You never see someone just being lovely to everyone going, 'I’m really deep in character'"
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Mar 9, 2024 17:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by tafkaga on Mar 9, 2024 17:55:58 GMT -5
Why do directors put up with actors refusing to get into character? I mean, if I was a director and the guy I heard to be Lex Luther was refusing to go bald, I'd tell him to sling his hook and give the multi-million dollar paycheck to someone else. There's always another talented and popular actor out there. I think back then, some actors were more important than the movie. If a star was on the poster, that could sell more tickets than any plot or special effect. Now, not so much. Yep, people bought tickets to see Cary Grant be Cary Grant. Same for John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Catherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, James Stewart, William Powell, Steve McQueen and all the big names of the day, which is why they played virtually the same character over and over. It's only in more recent times that the marquee names have started disappearing into their roles more and more. I have no idea, but I've wondered if it might have been due to actors like Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep raising the bar. You even see actors like Tom Hanks, who played himself for 20 years with massive success, stepping out of his comfort zone in the last 10-15 years.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Mar 9, 2024 18:00:48 GMT -5
If a method actor is someone who dives headfirst into a character, is consumed by it, surely the opposite would be an actor who competely overpowers whatever character they're supposed to be playing, right?
For example, Dwayne Johnson; only The Rock could play a centuries-old demigod, an early-20th century steamboat skipper, and a renegade DSS agent the exact same way. See also, coincidentally, his Hobbs & Shaw co-star Jason Statham.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Mar 9, 2024 18:25:40 GMT -5
Sean Connery would probably be on this list. Didn’t matter the role, that character instantly became a Scotsman.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 10, 2024 8:08:59 GMT -5
Sean Connery would probably be on this list. Didn’t matter the role, that character instantly became a Scotsman. in The Highlander we have a French-speaking Swiss man pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman playing an ancient Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, and a guy from Cleveland playing an ancient Russian barbarian.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 10, 2024 8:16:44 GMT -5
At least method actors try to get into character. I’d say the opposite end of the spectrum would be actors who have exactly one character that they play over and over. Back in the early 2000’s that would have been Tom Green. Nowadays it would be Randall Park. There's typecasting, and then there's whatever the hell Jason Mantzoukas does where every character is just Adrian Pimento again.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 10, 2024 8:41:32 GMT -5
Sean Connery would probably be on this list. Didn’t matter the role, that character instantly became a Scotsman. in The Highlander we have a French-speaking Swiss man pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman playing an ancient Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, and a guy from Cleveland playing an ancient Russian barbarian. "I'm not Scottish I'm Egyptian" said in the most Scottish accent ever.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 10, 2024 10:36:25 GMT -5
A methodless person who’s be true to themselves
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 10, 2024 11:20:06 GMT -5
in The Highlander we have a French-speaking Swiss man pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman playing an ancient Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, and a guy from Cleveland playing an ancient Russian barbarian. "I'm not Scottish I'm Egyptian" said in the most Scottish accent ever. It was Spanish not Scottish.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 10, 2024 13:18:02 GMT -5
I often wonder if approaching a role the way Daniel Day Lewis does isn’t an attempt to make the job seem more important than “sit in front of a camera, look pretty, and pretend to do things”.
There’s nothing wrong with that. I like about a million movies, and they’re only charging what the market will bear.
But when I see someone on late night talking about how “challenging” it was to read a script in front of a camera, I cringe a lot.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Mar 10, 2024 15:36:24 GMT -5
Charles Bronson always viewed acting as just a job. He said he just learned his lines and hit his marks and he was done. I'm glad he didn't get wrapped up in his characters since he usually played violent vigilantes
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 10, 2024 16:11:38 GMT -5
At least method actors try to get into character. I’d say the opposite end of the spectrum would be actors who have exactly one character that they play over and over. Back in the early 2000’s that would have been Tom Green. Nowadays it would be Randall Park. John Wayne is an older example of that. He was always John Wayne ,didnt matter if it was a western or a war film or he was fighting oil fires. Which hey if you are a fan of his acting that is great. I saw way too many of his films as a kid and have never liked him. Hell you got indie wrestlers that once the doors open will no break character even backstage or out behind the building. Never had one be an ass about it ,but have seen it a few times.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 10, 2024 18:30:55 GMT -5
in The Highlander we have a French-speaking Swiss man pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman playing an ancient Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, and a guy from Cleveland playing an ancient Russian barbarian. Slight correction: Christopher Lambert is French-American – born in Long Island to French parents, was raised in Switzerland from age 2-14 but has never had Swiss citizenship.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 10, 2024 20:17:05 GMT -5
in The Highlander we have a French-speaking Swiss man pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman playing an ancient Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, and a guy from Cleveland playing an ancient Russian barbarian. Slight correction: Christopher Lambert is French-American – born in Long Island to French parents, was raised in Switzerland from age 2-14 but has never had Swiss citizenship. Well I learned something today...
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Mar 11, 2024 0:36:42 GMT -5
The irony of this thread becoming all about Brando is in his earlier days, he was one of the first actors to bring method acting to mainstream productions. Yeah but that’s of “The Method” and Stanislavsky, etc. he was more of a meisner actor if anything. These days people hear “method actor” they think it’s to fully immerse, do the Leto thing, etc. ive worked with ppl like this, I know you have to respect everyone’s process, but it is the douchiest thing. Just act. Do the actual method in figuring out your characters motivations. Journal, etc. I know it’s boring, but that’s the actual method in breaking down your character. These dudes and dudettes, these “methody” actors, choose to bypass the busy work and just immersing themselves into “character” all the time or aspects of the characters like if THEYRE BLIND or do hard DRUGS,. Not only is it lazy, it’s strange and sometimes harmful. And I do lump in a lot of actors in this, Bale, day-lewis, Carrey etc not to say performances can’t be good coming out of this, they can, they do,.. It’s just weird.
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Post by Glitch on Mar 11, 2024 1:20:06 GMT -5
Shakespearean actor? I say that since method relies on feeling like the character whereas shakespearen actors probably rely on how the audience will see them.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 11, 2024 8:39:03 GMT -5
Why do directors put up with actors refusing to get into character? I mean, if I was a director and the guy I heard to be Lex Luther was refusing to go bald, I'd tell him to sling his hook and give the multi-million dollar paycheck to someone else. There's always another talented and popular actor out there. Because they're worth more money than directors are. The majority of people don't pay to see 'directed by some dickhead' the pay to see 'starring some other dickhead'
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Mar 11, 2024 11:58:45 GMT -5
Why do directors put up with actors refusing to get into character? I mean, if I was a director and the guy I heard to be Lex Luther was refusing to go bald, I'd tell him to sling his hook and give the multi-million dollar paycheck to someone else. There's always another talented and popular actor out there. I do think for Superman, it was untested waters and the studio thought Brando and Hackman would pull in audiences over and above the unknown actor as the titular character
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