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Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Released Thursday, 28th April 2022
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Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Where'd All the Method Acting Go?

Thursday, 28th April 2022
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In the 20th century, method acting was everywhere. Actors went to extreme lengths to inhabit the complicated psyche of a character, sometimes making audiences deeply uncomfortable. Think Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull” or Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now.” But in 2022, in our heyday of superhero blockbusters and bingeable story lines, the Method seems to be fading away. Wesley invites Isaac Butler — critic, historian and author of “The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act” — to dissect the Method. They discuss where it came from, its most legendary practitioners, and whether Hollywood has a place for it today.

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