What is Method Acting — It's Not What You Think It Is

that was the best acting I've ever seen in my whole life nearly every filmmaker agrees that good acting is important I've abandoned my child but there is far from an agreed upon definition for what good acting looks like and how it can be achieved you don't go to work with Daniel de you go to work with whoever his character is that's who you see when you get to work in the morning morning and that's who who leaves at night one immensely influential performing philosophy is method acting but even method acting has various schools and techniques me I don't drop character till I've done a DVD commentary this is what is method [Music] acting before we start our vocal warm-ups remember to sub subscribe to Studio binder and enable notifications let the performance begin method acting refers to when an actor focuses on the interiority of a role submerging themselves into the character's heads space their thoughts and world viw this is in stark contrast to classical acting which focuses more on what director Elia Kazan derided as external imitation I can absolutely guarantee you that I'm not feeling anything the audience have no interest in what you might be feeling you're supposed to give the appearance of feeling something like you did when you were a kid as method actor Sally Field puts it I would walk around and use whatever exercises to find her walk and find her Rhythm and and be it so that you were no longer acting you were behaving she didn't hear what word I say she doesn't hear you run now now you know that happens nor it happens all the it doesn't happen to my mama but the method can look very different depending on the actor and the school they were brought up in therefore it can be a hotly contested term Mar and Brando who popularized one version of the method argued that the term