I just read the term somewhere and have read all the wikipedia stuff, multiple articles, reddit posts, discussions, etc, but I just don’t understand what method acting is? What else can actually be there? Don’t all actors try to feel pain when they’re in a role where they have to act hurt?
I am not really looking for the history behind it, but maybe an example of a scene and the different ways as to how a method actor would approach it vs how a normal actor would approach it.
Thanks!
Edit – I know this is not the most scientific or complex phenomenon to understand, but still.
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> Don’t all actors try to feel pain when they’re in a role where they have to act hurt?
Way back in time there were predefined gestures and actions to convey any given emotion. When you felt distress you would do exactly this action to show it, confused then you do exactly this to convey confusion etc. Actors up to about the late 1800s did not try to feel the emotions they were having in the script, they played an exact set of motions and facial expressions.
Method acting is actually trying to feel the exact emotion you are trying to portray and THEN act naturally upon that.
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