NPR: Brando, Kazan, the film of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951, The Method - a lot of luminous names were students of The Method in acting - with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and the Actors Studio, Brando, Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, to name just a few. What is The Method?
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The difference in British and American acting teaching was something that I hadn’t expected, I think because it's so frequent that British actors play Americans and vice versa that the the method would be similar. I have vaguely heard of method acting before, but never knew too much about it. This interview provided a great insight to what it is really like to follow those techniques. I have done acting before but never really seriously. Once I moved off stage and behind that scenes I more often forget how emotionally exhausting it can be to be an actor. The one technique mentioned where you purposefully trigger yourself seems outdated, and I would be surprised if it is still taught with how much more we know about mental health. The sentiments of the British actors also surprised me, that their job is just to say the lines. While I think that fully enveloping yourself in a character can potentially be dangerous, I like to believe there is more to acting than just saying the words.
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