Archive for December 2015
The dark and murky side of method acting
I got this email the other day. Now, it was a long (but interesting) email, so I have cherry picked the nub of the issue: “Many of your emails celebrate the genius and greatness of actors such as Brando and McQueen and how by learning the Method and studying hard any actor could potentially reach…
Read MoreMarlon Brando’s unusual (and secret) on set acting technique
Now, last week I talked about how Steve McQueen took lines out of scripts and how Marlon Brando didn’t learn lines at all. Well, Marlon had another approach he used on set that no one knew about. When he walked on set, he would look at the crew, the director and the actors and think…
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