Method Acting?
August 27, 2009
Since the days of Stanislavski and Strasberg, aspiring thespians have been schooled in the ways of "method acting." Under this technique, an actor strives to emulate a character's emotional and psychological state through various exercises. Critics of method acting chide it as lacking substance and pretentious. In fact, legend has it that, when he was preparing for a tense scene in the movie The Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman went without sleep for several days. When he told his co-star, Sir Laurence Olivier, that he was doing this to get into his character, Olivier dismissed the method with the simple instruction: "Try Acting, Dear Boy."
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