Succession’s Jeremy Strong, and Spider-Man star Andrew is on board – but he says there are plenty of misconceptions about it.
The actor, who played Sebastião Rodrigues, a role based on a real-life Jesuit priest, in Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film, said he was celibate for six months and also fasted.
He said: ‘It was very cool, man. I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time. ‘There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think,’ Andrew added on the WTF podcast with Mark Maron. ‘People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an a**hole to everyone on set. ’He added that it’s also about being able to drop it when you need to, and staying in it when you need to – and, crucially, still being kind and considerate to everyone else on set.
Method acting is a practice introduced by Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski in the early 1900s, whereby a performer seeks to put themselves entirely in the shoes and emotional experiences of their character in order to find their true feelings and motivations.
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