method acting

Noun

Meaning

an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

method methods realistic acting comedic acting contemporary acting dramatic acting emotional acting experimental acting expressive acting improvisational acting movement-based acting naturalistic acting non-naturalistic acting physical acting psychological acting

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Hypernyms

playing acting performing playacting

Related terms

method actor

Examples

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that. Corin Nemec

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life. Corin Nemec

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. Dougray Scott

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. Edward Norton

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me. Carice van Houten

Close letter words and terms

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