Daniel Day-Lewis is cross method acting is equated with behaving like a lunatic'. That's exactly why we love it

"I'm a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like gone full method', which I think is meant to imply that a person's behaving like a lunatic in an extreme fashion, he told the New York Times. Everyone tends to focus on the less important details of the work, and those details always seem to involve some sort of self-flagellation or an experience that imposes upon oneself a severe discomfort or mental instability. But of course, in the life of an actor, it has to principally be about the internal work."

"Did he really send texts to Sally Field as Abraham Lincoln? Did he only eat animals he'd killed and skinned himself for The Last of the Mohicans? Did he insist on being spoon-fed food for My Left Foot? However, now Daniel Day-Lewis is back in the limelight, somewhat reluctantly, for his new film Anemone. And he is using this as an opportunity to vocalise his anger at how method acting is perceived."

Daniel Day-Lewis withdrew from acting after a 2017 statement and subsequently accrued a legend tied to intense method practices. Public fascination concentrated on dramatic anecdotes about his process, including immersive and extreme behaviors on set. Day-Lewis has returned, reluctantly, for the film Anemone and is using the occasion to confront how method acting is popularly portrayed. He objects to the shorthand “gone full method” and the emphasis on self-inflicted discomfort or spectacle. He insists that effective acting must primarily involve internal work rather than attention-seeking external stunts.

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