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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 21, 2017 9:11:24 GMT
Do you think people are born actors?I do. I think you either can do it or you can't. I think you can really see it in its purest form in kids. There are kids who can do it and there are kids who can't. I think actors, when they're adults, can hide behind other things ... technique or The Process, but you can either just do it or you can't.I've heard English actors in general have real disdain for The Process or The Method, that it's really just about hitting your mark and saying your lines.I think so. I think all of the work behind it is not something to justify why you do things. It's really funny, I saw this really amazing episode of Inside The Actor's Studio, with Mike Nichols - who I've worked with and has been a really good friend to me - and you know how they let the students ask a question at the end? One of the students goes, "What do you look for in an actor?" And he went, "Hmm ..." And this whole audience of students leans forward like, "What's the secret?!?" And Mike Nichols went, "I'm going to be honest with you guys. I think it's great that you're doing this training and good for you if that's what you think you need. But on the day that I tell you that your father is dead on the floor I want to see that your father is dead on the floor. I don't care how you do it. I don't care how you get there. But that's what I want to see." And the entire audience goes, "Aaaaaaugh! There's no answer!"
It's purely based on instinct, this job. You've got to be really open and really loose and really interested in life. I think those are the best actors I have ever met, the ones who are so interested in you and you and you and they're soaking you up like a sponge. Because that's what it is. You've got to portray real moments and life is surprising. I don't know if you can fall back on technique in those moments. www.screenanarchy.com/2012/09/emily-blunt-talks-looper-acting-and-her-urge-for-an-obnoxious-number-of-guns.html
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Post by scienceisgod on Apr 21, 2017 12:39:35 GMT
Do you think people are born actors?I do. I think you either can do it or you can't. I think you can really see it in its purest form in kids. There are kids who can do it and there are kids who can't. I think actors, when they're adults, can hide behind other things ... technique or The Process, but you can either just do it or you can't.I've heard English actors in general have real disdain for The Process or The Method, that it's really just about hitting your mark and saying your lines.I think so. I think all of the work behind it is not something to justify why you do things. It's really funny, I saw this really amazing episode of Inside The Actor's Studio, with Mike Nichols - who I've worked with and has been a really good friend to me - and you know how they let the students ask a question at the end? One of the students goes, "What do you look for in an actor?" And he went, "Hmm ..." And this whole audience of students leans forward like, "What's the secret?!?" And Mike Nichols went, "I'm going to be honest with you guys. I think it's great that you're doing this training and good for you if that's what you think you need. But on the day that I tell you that your father is dead on the floor I want to see that your father is dead on the floor. I don't care how you do it. I don't care how you get there. But that's what I want to see." And the entire audience goes, "Aaaaaaugh! There's no answer!"
It's purely based on instinct, this job. You've got to be really open and really loose and really interested in life. I think those are the best actors I have ever met, the ones who are so interested in you and you and you and they're soaking you up like a sponge. Because that's what it is. You've got to portray real moments and life is surprising. I don't know if you can fall back on technique in those moments. www.screenanarchy.com/2012/09/emily-blunt-talks-looper-acting-and-her-urge-for-an-obnoxious-number-of-guns.html Look good in front a camera and shout your lines. Andy Warhol's movies have better acting than these $300,000,000 blockbusters. Women actors especially have no talent and are just there because they got on a casting couch with Seth Rogen and co. |
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Post by sariz on Apr 22, 2017 6:58:05 GMT
I disagree a bitt with her, sure there most be a natural talent to react to certain emotions and circumstances but there are techniques to get in the mind of a special character. I think method acting is the most productive when it comes to playing real life characters. Daniel Day Lewis once dismissed Lawrence oliver with big respect in the tv show 101 questions. He was asked about the story of Lawrence who advised a young actor who spent a day trying to do method acting and Lawrence said why you just don't act ? Well Daniel said with huge respect to sir Lawrence, I think doing stuff like spending all time in a wheel chair helps you better to to get in the head of a man like Christi Brown and spending some hours in jail helped him to understand better what Conlon was going through shooting in the name of the father. So it's a bitt of both innate talent and learning techniques. With all respect to non method actors it's so unfair how they dismiss the method and bitt rude it's not as pretentious as they think it is, it's not bad if they don't do it but it helps to achieve greatness. Hugh Laurie everyone said he was a very nice guy while shooting House but used a bitt of method acting to perfect the American accent by using it even between takes, he didn't stay in character the whole time but kept The accent the whole time to not loose it. I really hate when actors like Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Neeson and even Judi Dench make fun of method actors or dismiss it like its pretentious or just right down silly because it's not and method actors don't mess with them. Here is the interview youtu.be/RKfGU3vKjvc |
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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 22, 2017 16:13:59 GMT
I disagree a bitt with her, sure there most be a natural talent to react to certain emotions and circumstances but there are techniques to get in the mind of a special character. I think method acting is the most productive when it comes to playing real life characters. Daniel Day Lewis once dismissed Lawrence oliver with big respect in the tv show 101 questions. He was asked about the story of Lawrence who advised a young actor who spent a day trying to do method acting and Lawrence said why you just don't act ? Well Daniel said with huge respect to sir Lawrence, I think doing stuff like spending all time in a wheel chair helps you better to to get in the head of a man like Christi Brown and spending some hours in jail helped him to understand better what Conlon was going through shooting in the name of the father. So it's a bitt of both innate talent and learning techniques. With all respect to non method actors it's so unfair how they dismiss the method and bitt rude it's not as pretentious as they think it is, it's not bad if they don't do it but it helps to achieve greatness. Hugh Laurie everyone said he was a very nice guy while shooting House but used a bitt of method acting to perfect the American accent by using it even between takes, he didn't stay in character the whole time but kept The accent the whole time to not loose it. I really hate when actors like Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Neeson and even Judi Dench make fun of method actors or dismiss it like its pretentious or just right down silly because it's not and method actors don't mess with them. Here is the interview youtu.be/RKfGU3vKjvcHeres the thing: staying in character is a technique but isn't exclusive to method acting and shouldn't be the only technique associated with it. Daniel doesn't need to stay in character to deliver the performances he gives. His research is what ultimately helps him, in my opinion, but if that's a technique that also helps him, then we shouldn't judge. There are ways it could work, like what Daniel does, and there are those that don't, like Leto's Joker. Blunt's comments struck me as a surprise since I always pegged her as a method actress. Especially when she was in The Young Victoria. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 22, 2017 17:45:40 GMT
Christian Bale is a child? Well there was that meltdown on the set of Terminator: Salvation...
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Post by hi224 on Apr 22, 2017 18:02:31 GMT
I could see it both ways but tend to think you can have varying ways of help.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 22, 2017 18:03:41 GMT
Regardless of any comments, I think Emily Blunt is a brilliant actress...
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Post by sariz on Apr 22, 2017 18:17:31 GMT
I disagree a bitt with her, sure there most be a natural talent to react to certain emotions and circumstances but there are techniques to get in the mind of a special character. I think method acting is the most productive when it comes to playing real life characters. Daniel Day Lewis once dismissed Lawrence oliver with big respect in the tv show 101 questions. He was asked about the story of Lawrence who advised a young actor who spent a day trying to do method acting and Lawrence said why you just don't act ? Well Daniel said with huge respect to sir Lawrence, I think doing stuff like spending all time in a wheel chair helps you better to to get in the head of a man like Christi Brown and spending some hours in jail helped him to understand better what Conlon was going through shooting in the name of the father. So it's a bitt of both innate talent and learning techniques. With all respect to non method actors it's so unfair how they dismiss the method and bitt rude it's not as pretentious as they think it is, it's not bad if they don't do it but it helps to achieve greatness. Hugh Laurie everyone said he was a very nice guy while shooting House but used a bitt of method acting to perfect the American accent by using it even between takes, he didn't stay in character the whole time but kept The accent the whole time to not loose it. I really hate when actors like Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Neeson and even Judi Dench make fun of method actors or dismiss it like its pretentious or just right down silly because it's not and method actors don't mess with them. Here is the interview youtu.be/RKfGU3vKjvcHeres the thing: staying in character is a technique but isn't exclusive to method acting and shouldn't be the only technique associated with it. Daniel doesn't need to stay in character to deliver the performances he gives. His research is what ultimately helps him, in my opinion, but if that's a technique that also helps him, then we shouldn't judge. There are ways it could work, like what Daniel does, and there are those that don't, like Leto's Joker. Blunt's comments struck me as a surprise since I always pegged her as a method actress. Especially when she was in The Young Victoria. Well Daniel is one of the 3 best actor alive in my opinion so he can do no wrong in my books so whatever technique works for him it's fine by me, the man is a genuis, he is a phenomenon in a good way. Maybe staying in character is not the only technique of method acting but the most well known if I'm not mistaken. I think Daniel's greatness comes from both Research and staying a bitt in character and staying in character can be done in so many ways. Like taking the whole character or just an accent like Hugh Laurie or maybe Meryl Streep. |
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 22, 2017 18:25:35 GMT
Do you think people are born actors?I do. I think you either can do it or you can't. I think you can really see it in its purest form in kids. There are kids who can do it and there are kids who can't. I think actors, when they're adults, can hide behind other things ... technique or The Process, but you can either just do it or you can't.I've heard English actors in general have real disdain for The Process or The Method, that it's really just about hitting your mark and saying your lines.I think so. I think all of the work behind it is not something to justify why you do things. It's really funny, I saw this really amazing episode of Inside The Actor's Studio, with Mike Nichols - who I've worked with and has been a really good friend to me - and you know how they let the students ask a question at the end? One of the students goes, "What do you look for in an actor?" And he went, "Hmm ..." And this whole audience of students leans forward like, "What's the secret?!?" And Mike Nichols went, "I'm going to be honest with you guys. I think it's great that you're doing this training and good for you if that's what you think you need. But on the day that I tell you that your father is dead on the floor I want to see that your father is dead on the floor. I don't care how you do it. I don't care how you get there. But that's what I want to see." And the entire audience goes, "Aaaaaaugh! There's no answer!"
It's purely based on instinct, this job. You've got to be really open and really loose and really interested in life. I think those are the best actors I have ever met, the ones who are so interested in you and you and you and they're soaking you up like a sponge. Because that's what it is. You've got to portray real moments and life is surprising. I don't know if you can fall back on technique in those moments. www.screenanarchy.com/2012/09/emily-blunt-talks-looper-acting-and-her-urge-for-an-obnoxious-number-of-guns.html I think method acting is just also something the actors enjoy doing, rather then helping them give better performances. I mean, DeNiro drove a taxi for a couple weeks for Taxi Driver but let's not pretend that would have had much impact on his performance. Some actors like to actually become other people for a period of time.
Maybe Jennifer Lawrence and Emily Blunt need to start method acting because they are nowhere near the actors that DDL and DeNiro are.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 22, 2017 18:33:43 GMT
I prefer UK trained actors to US ones, especially for anything historical or really off the wall fantasy related.
That Olivier story is not accurate from what I have heard. Dustin Hoffman had stayed up late--he wasn't staying in character, and Olivier made a joke about acting, not about his approach to it.
I have read that Tommy Lee Jones had no acting training--so he might be one of those who just get up and do it.
Robert Shaw on the other hand, though trained classically in the UK, also was said to have a "stay in character" approach just as fellow Welsh actor Bale seems to do.
More interesting I think are actors who write their own lines. Shaw did as he was also a writer. Peter Cushing, who Olivier said was the best film actor he knew, did various planning for a character, research, wrote his own lines, and he was classically trained.
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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 22, 2017 19:27:04 GMT
I prefer UK trained actors to US ones, especially for anything historical or really off the wall fantasy related. That Olivier story is not accurate from what I have heard. Dustin Hoffman had stayed up late--he wasn't staying in character, and Olivier made a joke about acting, not about his approach to it. I have read that Tommy Lee Jones had no acting training--so he might be one of those who just get up and do it. Robert Shaw on the other hand, though trained classically in the UK, also was said to have a "stay in character" approach just as fellow Welsh actor Bale seems to do. More interesting I think are actors who write their own lines. Shaw did as he was also a writer. Peter Cushing, who Olivier said was the best film actor he knew, did various planning for a character, research, wrote his own lines, and he was classically trained. Method acting really is a loose term nowadays. Either it requires research or any type of acting requires that anyway. James Cagney never described himself as method but he would use his memories to influence his performances, which is the Strasberg method. James Stewart once gargled on a substance to make his voice more hoarse for the ending of Mr. Smith, plus used his trauma from being in WWII to influence his performance in It's A Wonderful Life, but he isn't normally described as method, either. All I'm saying is that doing techniques doesn't exactly mean you're method. It just shows you're committed to put the best you can on the stage or screen. |
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Post by nausea on Apr 23, 2017 14:40:00 GMT
give me a break!
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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 24, 2017 15:31:53 GMT
Christian Bale is a child? Well there was that meltdown on the set of Terminator: Salvation... Dude, move on from that. That was a long time ago and it wasn't even a big deal. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 24, 2017 16:01:17 GMT
Christian Bale is a child? Well there was that meltdown on the set of Terminator: Salvation... Dude, move on from that. That was a long time ago and it wasn't even a big deal. You his agent or something? It's just a bit of light humor bud. |
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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 25, 2017 11:02:05 GMT
Dude, move on from that. That was a long time ago and it wasn't even a big deal. You his agent or something? It's just a bit of light humor bud. It's still wrong! I don't want that to be something he will be forever be known for. He's no Chris Brown nor Reese Witherspoon. |
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Post by brokenbow on Apr 25, 2017 12:09:04 GMT
You his agent or something? It's just a bit of light humor bud. It's still wrong! I don't want that to be something he will be forever be known for. He's no Chris Brown nor Reese Witherspoon. I think Bale is a hack, in every interview he seems ungrateful and is always saying he is "close" to quitting (acting). Besides despite being in the three best Batman films he almost ruined them with terrible performances. |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Apr 25, 2017 14:39:09 GMT
Whatever works for whoever to get them to portray what they need to is as good as anything out there.
Everyone has their own preferences for learning. Yes, I believe you need to have an inherent talent. You can learn certain tricks and techniques, but unless you have that talent, it's not going to come over well.
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 25, 2017 17:48:51 GMT
I agree with Miss Blunt on this point: I dislike method acting as well--I don't think it affords anyone any benefit and, in fact, can trip an actor up more than help him--and, in the rare cases when I have been able to perform, have never used its techniques.
I'm sure you all know the celebrated, if possibly apocryphal, tale in which Dustin Hoffman stated that he stayed up for three days and nights preparing for his role in Marathon Man, and Laurence Olivier said, "Why don't you just try acting?" Wonderful story, even if Hoffman now says it was taken out of context.
Robin Williams used to joke that he repeated the same line to Hoffman when the latter "lost his motivation" in the middle of a line while filming Hook.
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Post by sariz on Apr 25, 2017 20:32:16 GMT
Whatever works for whoever to get them to portray what they need to is as good as anything out there.
Everyone has their own preferences for learning. Yes, I believe you need to have an inherent talent. You can learn certain tricks and techniques, but unless you have that talent, it's not going to come over well. Totally agree with this. everyone has different techniques which work for each person but at the end the talent is inherent and it doesn't matter how much techniques you learn if you don't have it. |
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Post by Phoenix101 on Apr 30, 2017 15:19:59 GMT
Regardless of any comments, I think Emily Blunt is a brilliant actress... She is. |
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