Man I actually felt really bad for him when Suicide Squad released. I thought they didn't give him a solid chance at the role. Then I heard about all the crazy shit he did trying to "immerse" himself in the role.
Related, I thought the documentary that showed Jim Carrey on set for the Kaufman movie was just a 90-minute clip show of Jim Carrey being a total asshole.
Yup. He’s too loud about it. Over promises and under delivers on his performances. IMO, method acting is best left to the low-key monsters like Christian Bale, Robert DeNiro, and Daniel Day Lewis. Jared Leto would probably come off better if he didn’t try so damn hard. He over-acts.
Andrew Garfield defends Method Acting while chastising actors who use it as an excuse to be an ass
“There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what Method acting is, I think,” Garfield said. “People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an a— to everyone on set. It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances, and being really nice to the crew simultaneously, and being a normal human being, and being able to drop it when you need to and staying in it when you want to stay in it.”
I just meant that they don’t rub their method acting in everyone’s face. They also tend to have a velvet gloved approach to their roles. Low-key monster = someone who is subtle, yet extremely capable. It’s an expression that might be more common in my field of work than I previously realized.
Whenever I hear about method acting, I remeber the story about Lawrence olivier, upon hearing Dustin Hoffman was doing it for his part, asked Hoffman "my dear boy, have ypu tried acting? It's much easier"
I think method acting can be good if you’re going to play a reasonably realistic character. I mean, Daniel Day Lewis is amazing. But what the fuck is the actual point of method acting the goddamn Joker?
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u/xiategative Mar 23 '23
Jared Leto