#Method actor

[bitter69uk]

“James Dean was a furious cry against the cloying, smug hypocrisy of a consumer society in the fifties. While we shall never know if he was capable of providing any answers, since he died so tragically young, it was enough that he voiced and portrayed the frustrations and discontent brewing in the American youth of his time. Their identification with him led to his instant and enormous success in three films – East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant – made in just over one year. His premature death in 1955 … was itself a tragic statement of his dissatisfaction and ensured his elevation to legendary status. So strong and clear was the message he expressed in his own time that today, along with Monroe and Presley, he still embodies the spirit of a society in search of its identity – a search unleashed in the sixties and never satisfactorily resolved.”

/ From Hollywood Colour Portraits by John Kobal (1981) /

“We cannot speak of cinema without mentioning the name of James Dean, the freshly plucked fleur du mal, James Dean, who is cinema, in the same sense as Lillian Gish, Chaplin, Ingrid Bergman, etc.” Francois Truffaut

Died on this day aged 24: cinema’s bongo drum-playing quintessential doomed 1950s bad boy, James Byron Dean (8 February 1931 - 30 September 1955) – one of the most lusciously photogenic actors of all time. Pictured: 1954 portrait of Dean by Roy Schatt. This whole session - frequently called the “Torn Sweater Series” - was taken for LIFE magazine but never used at the time. I think they’re the most beautiful shots of Dean ever captured.

[thebowerypresents]

Nilüfer Yanya Thrills Brooklyn Steel with New Music

Nilüfer Yanya – Brooklyn Steel – October 1, 2024

British artist Nilüfer Yanya took the Brooklyn Steel stage at 9:40 on Tuesday night. By 9:45, she had dabbled in at least four different genres: an ethereal sparkle of ambient evolved into an angular electronica, giving way to the funk of a plunky bass, an explosion of electric guitar rock and roll, Yanya then belting the indie-pop chorus, eventually joined by an energized blare of near-jazz saxophone. The song was “Method Actor,” a track off Yanya’s brand-new full-length of the same name, and it established the tone for a set that was stylistically restless while remaining coherently focused.   

Yanya expertly led her band through most of the new album plus some selections off her sophomore LP, 2022’s Painless. Almost every song contained layers of hidden complexity. “Like I Say (I Runaway)” with earworms eating earworms, clever springs of guitar and drums; “Ready for Sun (Touch)” feeling like multiple songs in one — lovely singer-songwriter in off-kilter tension with an almost glitch-pop, the stage bathed in an ominous anything-but-sunny yellow; “Trouble” unfolding overlapping rhythms of vocals, drums and electronics with an adhesive of low-end bass helping build to a dramatic orchestral swell. 

Yanya gave her strong supporting band a break on “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” the room falling quiet and still for her sparse guitar-and-vocal, singing, “I’m tired / From all these dreams.” That set up a three-song chill-down middle with the R&B slow-burn “Call It Love” and the loveliness of “Binding.” Things closed out strong with two from Painless: The band almost sounding like Radiohead on “The Dealer” as Yanya aptly sang, “Patience, there she goes / Cadence set in stone,” setting up the final song, “Stabilise,” with fuzzy guitar, an addictive beat, dancehall bass and the method actor, Nilüfer Yanya, inhabiting each role perfectly. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Nilüfer Yanya plays Royale in Boston tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor

From the album My Method Actor, out September 13th on Ninja Tune.

[melaninpov]

Jonathan Majors | Kang the Conqueror

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Evangeline Lilly: “There is a genuine gravitas to Jonathan that he brings to his role. I don’t know if he would call himself method but he definitely arrives on set fully embodying the character. And emanating an energy out into the space that very much sort of claims the space and says I’m here. Because Kang is the conqueror of space and time, you could actually feel Jonathan doing that in our space and time.”

Kevin Feige: “In the comics Kang is almost an infinite number of different personas. You need an actor to be able to pull that off. Payton Reed recommended Jonathan Majors.”

[mariasabanahabanabana]

Dios, jamás me había reído tan fuerte y tanto en hace mucho tiempo, definitivamente así son las mamás/familias latinas... Grande Pedro Pascal, otra razón para amarlo

Btw, a pesar de que el vídeo dice "Hispanic mom", hay varios países en Latinoamérica que no hablan español, como Brasil, pero, las madres ahí también son así, so...

Momentos en donde al actor se le olvidó que estaba actuando pt1

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God, I've never laughed so hard and so hard in a long time, that's definitely what Latino moms/families are like... Great Pedro Pascal, another reason to love him

Btw, even though the video says "Hispanic mom", there are several countries in Latin America that don't speak Spanish, like Brazil, but the mothers there are also like that, so...

Moments where the actor forgot he was acting pt1

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Deus, eu nunca ri tanto e tanto em muito tempo, definitivamente é assim que as mães/famílias latinas são... Grande Pedro Pascal, mais um motivo para amá-lo

Aliás, apesar do vídeo dizer "mãe hispânica", tem vários países da América Latina que não falam espanhol, como o Brasil, mas as mães de lá também são assim, então...

Momentos en donde al actor se le olvidó que estaba actuando pt1

[rabidhiss]

Vincent D’Onofrio in The Cell (2000). Vincent is one of the most compelling and underrated actors of our time. Most remember his gut wrenching performance in Full Metal Jacket.

[whositmcwhatsit]

I really want to find that clip of him... I think it's in the Elvis on Tour outtakes but I might be wrong where he's literally about to step on stage and he's doing the same panicked gulping of air for real. Just for comparison and... because I'm twisted like that.

Elvis Presley as Mike Windgren in Fun In Acapulco — 1963.

[parisoonic]

its not my fault i keep playing against Daniel Day-Lewis mfs

[bodhrancomedy]

I also refuse to method act because I get a lot of abused and mentally unwell characters and I like being mentally stable :)

[bitter69uk]

“Marlon Brando is one of the most brilliant and charismatic artists of the twentieth century. Like Elvis Presley, he is a supreme sexual persona, an icon who has entered our dreams and transformed the way we see the world. All contemporary American actors owe a debt to Brando and are in some sense in his shadow. He took the self-analytic and ensemble-based Stanislvaskian “Method” of the New York Actor’s Studio to Hollywood and helped put an end, for good or ill, to the old paternalistic studio system, with its corporate populism and army-like cadres of polished technicians. Today’s young white actors, emerging from comfortable respectable homes and lacking access to the hardening experiences of factories, freighters or battlefields, search for masculinity by aping Brando … Arrogant and manipulative, seething with raw sensitivities and burning rage, alternately harsh and kind, selfish and generous, Brando is a monumental personality of profound complexities and contradictions. He must be approached from the direction of other Western artists suffering spiritual conflicts and thwarted ambitions: Byron, Keats, Caravaggio, Michelangelo.”

Pop culture theorist Camille Paglia on Marlon Brando (3 April 1924 – 1 July 2004) in 1991, who was born 100 years ago today. I particularly love Brando’s performances in the 1953 juvenile delinquent / motorcycle gang flick The Wild One, opposite Anna Magnani in the underrated Tennessee Williams film adaptations The Fugitive Kind (1960) (pictured) and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967).  

[prokopetz]

"Method acting is bullshit because actors only use it as an excuse to be assholes" actors go method as nice characters all the time. You just don't hear about it because an actor spending six months exclusively wearing underwear with their role's initials embroidered on them because they feel that's what their character would do doesn't make for good clickbait.

[myfandomprompts]

“I think method acting gets a bad rap nowadays, but if you consider it [in relation to] people’s time, it’s certainly not a bad thing.” - EWAN MITCHELL, for The Face

[The A24 Project]

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