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Hollywood has seen its share of actors employing method acting techniques, and three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis is undoubtedly one of its most iconic practitioners. For instance, during the filming of "My Left Foot," to fully embody the protagonist with cerebral palsy who couldn't walk or speak, he insisted on being pushed in a wheelchair and fed by the crew throughout the production.
However, in recent years, an increasing number of actors have adopted extreme, even bizarre, methods to immerse themselves in roles. These radical behaviors often become fodder for extensive media coverage, leading to a public perception of method acting as merely actors engaging in eccentric antics.
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Recently, while promoting his new film "Anemone," Lewis spoke with The New York Times (NYT) and addressed this phenomenon. "I don't like the idea of acting as a craft at all," he stated. "Of course, there are certain skills that can be learned, and I know that method acting is an easy target these days. I hear people chirping all over the place now, 'He's gone full method,' and I'm a bit annoyed by that, because it implies that someone is behaving like an extreme lunatic. Everyone is fixated on the less important details of the work, and those details seem to be always connected to some kind of self-flagellation or imposing severe discomfort or mental instability upon oneself. But without a doubt, the most important thing in an actor's life is the internal adjustment."
via： The New York Times