At first glance, method acting seems pretty cool: an actor is so invested in his craft that he stays in character even when the cameras stop rolling. However, in practice, method acting comes at a price, which is often paid by the actor’s co-stars.
Here are 11 times actors called out the worst method actors they’ve worked with:
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In 2023, Brian Cox said City and countryside that his Succession His partner Jeremy Strong is “a very good actor”, but being around someone who is always in character is “really annoying”.
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In 2022, Vicky Krieps told the Telegraph that she entered Ghost thread She didn’t know anything about Daniel Day-Lewis’ method acting, but she tried to keep an open mind. She said, “But after half the movie, I was really fed up with it. Like, ‘OK, I get it. It’s a game. I played it. But can we talk normally now, please?'”
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In 2007, Tyrese Gibson said She“[My Annapolis costar] James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never deviated from his character. Every time we had to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during training, the guy would hit me full force.
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In 2013, Paul Giamatti told BuzzFeed that filming Man on the moon With Jim Carrey’s method acting, it was “a very strange experience.” He said, “It was one of the strangest experiences I’ve had making a movie, to be honest with you. It was just crazy. Jim was crazy during the shoot. He was doing everything he could to be Andy Kaufman all the time, when he was on set and when he was in the suit, and he was Tony Clifton all the time when he was Tony Clifton.”
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In 2022, Jesse Plemons said Variety that a comment is THE The power of the dog Costar Benedict Cumberbatch did the “edgy” character [him] “There was one time he pissed me off. He was like, ‘Hey, big boy.’ It wasn’t ‘big.’ I feel like not many people in life have said, ‘Hey, big boy,’ and I was like, ‘What the fuck?’
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In 2009, Bronson Pinchot told the AV Club that he thought his A risky business Tom Cruise, his co-star in the film, was “the most boring guy on the planet”. He said: “He had spent time training with Sean Penn – we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had a habit of calling everyone by their character’s name, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think acting is acting, and the rest of it…
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