Sentences with phrase «method actor»

As the only actor asked to do anything but the obvious, Jackson exudes some undeniable charisma and has a tendency, like method actors of yore, to posture a bit, retreat within and make the viewer follow him there.

Moreover, it refers to Warren Beatty at this point in an extraordinary career that began in the New American Cinema and that wave of Method actors filling in the spaces left behind by the Golden Age.

Working with Riggan on his comeback performance is one of the best method actors in the land, Mike (Norton).

NC State has carved out a detailed niche through the years and has committed to it, like any good method actor:

As method actors go, he's every bit as good as Brando and James Dean were, in my opinion.

Conquering your cluttered mind takes practice and technique, which Morgan says leaders can steal from method actors.

The enjoyment comes from the two masterful Method actors, the introspective Brando - like Sean Penn searching for the truth about his role and the more instinctive Nicole Kidman playing to the exotic foreignness her character conveys in a rather prim way, as they play their frustrated oil and water would - be lover roles without even touching or expressing any love except through quiet sighs (a restrained a romance as there ever was in a movie).

The Score stars some fine method actors, who use their talents to make their characters believable enough such that we will be riveted to find out their fates when the main event of the heist takes place.

Another cast member, played by Naomi Watts, has an angle on nabbing a famous Method actor (played by Edward Norton, sending up his own difficult reputation with delightful aplomb) on short notice.

She called Leto's performance «pretty impressive» because he nearly scared the crap out of her and the rest of the cast and not simply because he gave her a live rat since he's a big method actor.

Christian Bale doesn't have the same reputation for being a hardcore method actor that Daniel Day Lewis does, but he's still known for being willing to do some pretty crazy stuff to his body for a role.

Summary Capsule: Life rather unpleasantly imitates art when the silent film Nosferatu acquires an «eccentric» new method actor.

Alan Arkin delivers an excellent cameoas the director of Vince's acting class, especially during his attack on thepregnant pauses of Method actors such as Marlon Brando.

An indefatigable method actor, the Londoner made a name for himself by immersing himself in his roles.

«The Incomparable Daniel Day - Lewis» (5:05) lets co-stars and Marshall describe Nine's leading man, painting a flattering picture of an insanely committed method actor.

In his place comes dramatic Thespian method actor Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), who steps in to save the day.

Veteran method actor Leung not only took on Wong's challenge but took it a step further, training for three years until he was strong enough to break a wooden board that was a few inches thick with one blow.

The renowned Method Actor has described his decision as related to being «overwhelmed by a sense of sadness,» and even went so far as to say that the emotional downturn impacted Anderson as well.

Though Day - Lewis's reputation precedes him — as an intensely method actor who stays in character through the entirety of filming — Manville said that she was not intimidated by her Academy Award - winning co-star.

In one TV interview Gray describes himself as «an inverted Method actor, using myself to play myself,» which is essentially what Soderbergh has done in the editing room.

A consummate method actor, he researches roles meticulously, learns the crafts of his characters (from boxer to butcher) in preparation for his performance and carries the role with him offscreen until production ends.

Harry Lockhart is a small - time thief who is on the run from the law when he stumbles into a casting session and, in his traumatised state, is hailed as an exceptional method actor and packed off to Hollywood.

Put yourself in the shoes of a prospective renter, and channel your inner method actor.

She was lucky enough to spend 14 years with a freaky method actor who admits his emotional growth ceased at age 17.

Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is a 5 - time Oscar - winning Australian method actor.

One of the industry's best method actors, Day - Lewis is known for learning all he can about his characters before playing them.

He is also ignorant and naive, a would - be method actor who has never heard of James Dean and doesn't appear to realise that Stanislavski has been dead for 80 years.

He draws distinctions between his approach and that of method actors like Daniel Day - Lewis.

Rick Perry is just a method actor gearing up to play George W Bush in the cinematic debut of The Onion.

The researchers asked 10 method actors, trained to generate emotional responses on demand rather than just mimic them, to write vignettes that evoked each of nine feelings: disgust, anger, fear, happiness, lust, envy, pride, sadness and shame.

Daniel Day - Lewis embodies the role of the sixteenth president, and the method actor again gives a wonderful performance.

Make no mistake about Eddie Redmayne; he's definitely a method actor.

I'm so glad I'm not a method actor, but even so, I firmly subscribe to the idea that while I'm still always Anya, I'm living with Lily for that month.

Clearly not a method actor, that extra.

Christian Bale is a method actor and has proved his acting skills, and there shouldn't be any problem for him to pull off the role of Nathan Drake.

He plays Kirk Lazarus, a method actor so extreme, he plays the entire movie in character, blacked up to come across as African American and sprouting pompous lines that make you want to slap him.

Franco admits the whole thing sounds like a method actor stunt but insists he had a good reason for staying totally in character even when not on - screen:

He is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style (winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize for Best Book in Theatre), No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade, and High Comedy in American Movies: Class and Humor from the 1920s to the Present.

Daniel Day - Lewis is a near - mythic figure in Hollywood, a three - time Oscar - winner as selective about the parts he takes as the interviews he gives, and a method actor notorious for disappearing into characters for weeks or months at a time.

Mind you, I haven't seen the film yet, but I do know that he plays a method actor in the movie who goes to extreme measures to play an African American (in the movie within the movie), apparently drawing his examples from American exploitation cinema of the seventies.

A notorious method actor, he stayed in the role of Abe Lincoln for the Spielberg biopic when cameras weren't rolling, and word has it he researched heavily for his role as a 1950s dress maker and fashion maverick in Phantom Thread.

Bale, despite maintaining his American accent in interviews, comes off less like a Method actor than like a masochist in a co-dependent relationship, even going so far as to refuse protective footwear while filming a chase through Barcelona's sewer system.

Christian Bale, one of Hollywood's most notorious method actors, has once again shocked the world with his drastic weight transformation.

Be it unnerving Riggan by memorising his lines prior to first rehearsal or drinking real gin instead of water on stage or hitting on his co-star (Naomi Watts), Norton (a Method actor playing a Method actor) does for Birdman what Ben Affleck did for Shakespeare In Love — gives it a swift kick up the arse.

He was excellent in The Force Awakens, I'm not surprised that he's a method actor!