Peter Stormare says "Method Acting & Meisner Method is all phony bullshit!"
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- Hikari Takano Interviews BITS: Peter Stormare says "Method Acting & Meisner Method is all phony bullshit!
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This is gold. Being a proffesional singer, and voice teacher, couldnt agree more. Perform. Fail. Refine. Repeat.
He has a great voice.
I'll never forget an interview I saw with the cast of a mainly British movie which didn't do well at the box office but I liked it. It was called "Outlander". Jim Caviezel was the lead actor but the rest were mainly British. They were saying how well filming was going because they were all British --- "We can be having a break and all sitting around chatting, then we get up to start filming again with no messing around. The best part is that none of us have to stare at a wall for a few hours to get into character". Priceless!
I love this man! Freaking awesome and amazing!
according to his wife Vivian, Stanley Kubrick "loved" British actors because they interpreted the character _from the fucking lines_ and didnt interpret "their own" thing via using some introspective method or whatever, they just needed to play the part, and that was it.
Which is funny because he would try to force a lot of "method" stuff on his actors to get genuine reactions and levels of exhaustion out of them.
Thank goodness. Real actors with real training don't need to resort to cheap gimmicks.
If I were to think about my dead dog, while playing in front of an audience, they’d have to pick me up off the floor and carry me off stage. I’d be rolled up in a helpless ball of snot and tears. People who actually have emotions, need to distance themselves from emotion in order to play the emotion. A very clear example would be singing in an opera- feeling any real emotion would choke you up and shred your voice. Those people who have to go to class to find their emotions or connect with those emotions probably shouldn’t be on stage.
His voice is so freaking good and is in almost all my favorite movies
Amazing
He plays a good sheep
Man, this is and incredible interview with one of the ebst actors in the world. I'm so happy rhat I stumblwd accross this. How is life treating the author these days?
Robert Deniro's acting for the last 2 decades has been mediocre. And then you realize Deniro didn't change, you changed. You've seen so much of Deniro's and Streep's bullshit acting method it's become tiresome and predictable and quite unconvincing.
Mr Stormare is mostly right. But even he is a method actor of sorts. You have to be a method actor to a certain degree to deliver a quality performance. But you can't be a caricature of the character and deliver the same old underlying personality in different wardrobe like Deniro and Streep do in role after role.
de niro is not a method actor he studied under the teaching of stella adler
He’s right
John Abruzzi has getting old :/
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Refine your skills with educated observation and reps, reps, reps, reps, reps...
Love your interviews, but your site is down Takano!.
+Reygarev Kogan
I updated the link. Thanks for the heads up.
+Hikari Takano do you have the full Martin Landau Interview?
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Tell that to Daniel Day - Lewis.
Daniel Day-Lewis is a top notch actor, but he has had the fortune of being painted as a creature of mythology. Many actors who act well (like Peter Stormare) can act on DDL's level any day of the week. They have just been marketed differently.
@@Elusive_Pete Stormare is no where near Day-Lewis's league.
Film revolutionized acting. In many ways, it made it possible for relatively untalented and unprofessional actors to become stars.
From the outside looking in, method acting just looks - as the title suggests - a bunch of phony bullshit, where people try to distinguish themselves in a field of similarly untalented people, by saying "I went to this school" or "I studied under so-and-so," to give themselves an edge in landing roles. It's literally ALL make-believe. I think there are thousands, maybe millions, of naturally good actors out there, who could walk right onto any t.v. or movie set, learn their lines, and be just as good as any of 'em.
As a former member of a pit orchestra, who learned a MUCH more difficult part than any of the actors, and halfway through the production, knew all the musical AND actors' cues better than any of the actors (and I speak for the entire orchestra), who has also been an actor, the acting ain't very hard. It beats honest work, any day. But it's nothing compared to mastering an instrument and playing in the orchestra. The main skill for the actor is looking the part and the power of speech.
OK. I've had my rant. Thank you for not listening.
I am Russian!!!
sorry to hear that
@@thedude4795 Not like the US has been any better over the last decade or so, and counting
@Dagnabit888 I'm sorry, hopefully you'll get better
Quantity does not equal quality. I don't care how many performances this guy has gavin he is no DeNiro or Pacino. A great actor is a hybrid who knows what to use and when to use it.
Stewart Kee What are you talking about?!
Stewart Kee Surely you can see that the more acting you do (and the more varied it is) the better you become, because you're learning your craft, gathering experience and characters? Your argument doesn't work in this context.
I'm not sure how this makes any sense - certainly you aren't suggesting that adopting method would put him on par with prime DeNiro or Pacino, right? So where is the relevance?
Quantity begets quality - "10,000 hours", it's all about putting reps in, that's how you get better at anything. That doesn't mean that it's the only thing you do, that you don't "need" to do anything beyond just walking on stage as much as possible. It means that you learn the skills of your craft, and then you perfect your ability to implement those skills.
We all have a ceiling, that doesn't mean that we're all going to to reach it. If you want to maximize your abilities, then you need reps plain and simple. It applies to everything; athletics, motorsports, art, your job, the more you do it the better you become and the more consistent you become. Within your own limits, irrespective of anyone else's. I can say this from personal experience competing in wrestling in school, and motorsports since I've been out.
@@rageagainstmyhairline5574 what Im saying is that an actor has to have talant. I dont care if you acted in more movies than DeNiro that does not make you a better actor than DeNiro, nor does it make your movies better than DeNiros. And it also stands to reason that the best actors understand both classical and method acting. Not every role is the same. Sometimes a movies like Dog Day Afternoon will call for a heavier more method approach to acting. At other times a a lighter or more comedic role will require a more classical technique. A comedy will require comic timeing, more focus on movement.
@@stewartkee6115 Having read your comment I would like to reassess my opinion. I believe both you and I have valid pints and the correct viewpoint lies within a combination of each of our standpoints.
I understand if you still disagree, but I thank you for making me rethink my original comment.
All the best, take care.
Peter Stormare is a good actor, don't get me wrong, but ''method acting is all phony bullshit''?! Certainly not. Peter has limits, actually all actors do, but great actors have a wider range than him ending up far superior than Peter, like Daniel Day-Lewis or Bob DeNiro, Brando, Dustin Hofman, Heath Ledger.. and they are all amazing because of that. He really shouldn't judge someone who is more talented than him. If it works for them, showing an ever wider depth of characters- and it doesn't to you, than don't judge.
*****
I think all those people i mentioned have lives too. That does not mean that he must look down on some of the most talented actors today.
Babylonthegreat
You are right. To a point.
As much as i value your experience in film-making, try to understand that this is one side of a coin. Do keep in mind that this method acting, is extremely efficient for Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel.. amongst many others. Yes, Laurence Olivier was an astonishing actor, but his opinion is not objective, but strictly subjective, with other words just because HE felt like it, doesn't mean it IS like it..To disregard that technique so easily, so fast, is immature. Those actors who are method, like Daniel Day, have accomplished miracles by behaving that way.
And do keep in mind that these people are amongst the very best of their kind, so they must know something you and i do not.
So, let's us keep an open mind to all possibilities and not ignore some of them.. which may lead to perfection.
It's nice to read both of you. Thanks for conversing. :)
Λαυρέντιος Ψαροκάηκας ...anyone can judge anyone because everyone has opinions with their knowledge.
Bob DeNiro? Range? Ha.
Yeah, he sounds like PewDiePie, or whatever his proper name is, meaning a Swede. I couldn't tell from Prison Break but he didn't sound totally American.
Peter Stormare obviously knows nothing when he talks about Meisner. He calls it, "Phoney Bullshit." "You can only do that when you have time on your hands." He hasn't a clue about Meisner. What is he saying, you don't have time to listen, to be in the moment, and to work off your partner? You don't have time to break down a script and make strong, personal, interesting, and active choices? He does do a good Sheep Impersonation, though. I do agree that there are too many schools in LA that just want to teach how to audition when the student then doesn't know what to do if they get the job.
There’s a reason you have never been successful in the craft of acting.
He's right about the phony bullshit but then again shouldn't you just use the facts and act accordingly?
Unless you actually studied under Meisner, you wouldn't really know what his technique was because it was constantly Morphing as he taught it as he was trying to improve upon it (as he should have been).
Unfortunately, Meisner is dead and so is his technique. He would undoubtedly roll over in his grave if he knew how much people were using his old worn and not complete lessons 50 years after his passing. Strasberg, Adler and Meisner all were trying to perfect and simplify acting based on their understanding of Konstantin Stanislawski's technique and so to carry on teaching exactly what they taught years later without any attempt to improve or further simplify is just superficial plagiarism at best, and simply exploits the incomplete works of dead people based on their reputations since most of today's acting teachers are too lazy or scared to come up with their own technique.
Peter Stormare is such an arrogant dolt!
Meisner is only good for auditions!! That man destroyed the American theatre.
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While there are many ways to skin a cat, meaning that in the arts there is no right or wrong, Mr Stormare's comments/opinions are what is utter and total bullshit. Stanislavski's legacy in the United States as pioneered by so many individual and collectively, members of the Group Theater since the 1930's have made more contributions to world cinema and stage acting than Stormare could ever dream of making in his lifetime. To name just a few: Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Elia Kazan, Diane Keaton, Gregory Peck, Robert Duval, James Caan, Steve McQueen, JoVan Fleet, James Dean, Martin Landau, Ellen Burstein and these are just the names off the top of my head, Eli Wallach, Meryl Streep and many, many, many more. Yes, I think Mr. Stormare's is confusing doing animal voices and working in television with the craft of living truthfully under imaginary circumstance.
Are you actually trying to say Monroe, Peck, Caan, McQueen, etc are good actors? Really? You actually think Marilyn Monroe was a good actor rather than just a sexy body? You really think Steve McQueen was a good actor rather than a pretty stuntman? I guess this means you think Keanu Reeves is a good actor too, right? Get the fuck out of here. You're trolling, right? Please tell me you're just trolling.
@@rofyle You’re a fucking bozo
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