Interviews

[Anniemouse]

I have always wondered about the validity of method acting. I agree with Jason on two counts (although he never mentions these issues in the interviews).

1 * As an actor starting out on your career, surely you need to have the ability to drop everything and take a job at short notice. So in effect you do not have time to do massive levels of research. Being open and adaptable must be the only option for many.

2 * This was mentioned in the show I watched last year called 'Bring the Drama'. They seemed to suggest that the method acting style can be triggering for people who have had serious issues in their private lives and even in the most balanced of individuals lead to burn out. When you consider that Marilyn Monroe followed the method I cannot think how her mental health was not effected by revisiting her troubled life.

I think Jason is correct that a great writer; and I would add a great director can bring out amazing perfoprmaces on the fly.

I also think seeing actors work their way up through working with other great actors helps immensley.

Sally Hawkins, Olivia Coleman. Judi Dench and the late Maggie Smith (read her quote on method acting) never used it and I think their success is due to being easy going, open to the work of their co stars and having innate trust in their talent.

Interesting article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articl ... so-extreme

[Antoni Bandzior]

I've heard Mads talking about method actors more than Jason ever did and he despises them to his core, mostly because they're pain in the ass on set. One of the actor playing a villain on Hannibal was method and they sacked him, replacing him for the next season, because he was totally unberalble on set - He was acting out on all the crew - while "being in character" which was awful for everyone. And some of them are just using "being in character" to be duchebags to people, because they think it's perfectly explainable.
That's the one level of it.
Another is - having mental or emotional issues, and I don't know a person who doesn't have one, actors included, it has to be triggering. Going into someone's shoes can really mess you up - we have a great example of that ending really badly - Heath Ledger, and he isn't the only one. Actors who have support, or healthy system worked out with their emotions, can go deep, but still they need to recover later on. Tom Holland was talking very openly that he needed to recover from shooting The Crowded Room because it was too much emotionally for him.
And now imagine Jason is going method, while his character is on Benzo... not really a good idea for an addict. He is probably triggered enough by playing that role anyway(hence a lot of talking about it in interviews). For people with addictions going into shoes of someone high/drunk, medicated and such, is like bringing up all the memories, feelings and urges to the surface. Very high possibility of relapse. So the deeper he goes the worse for him.

Besides - I know from my own perspective, even by watching recent Honey Bunch - watching a heavy movie, or reading a book that has a topic that is triggering for you, can mess up your emotions for days. And we are staying with this story for like only 2 - 3 hours. Actors are boiling in it sometimes for weeks, so I can imagine going outside the set, shake it off, deal with the emotions that have built up, talk them out or any other way that's working - is a healthy thing.

But even in regular world, there's a method that's used very often these days by "awaken healers" and other magical mambo jumbo people, who think they can change someone's life - they're using Family Constellation(by Hellinger), without any therapeutic or psychologial knowledge, pushing people (who are already unstable, searching for their identity or sufferring from traumas) into semi hypnotic state, inserting in them other's emotional states and needs as a form of group therapy session and then leaving them with it to "process". It's very dangerous, and for someone who is already unstable or have mental health issues that can be the trigger to go into psychotic state or heavy case of another problems. This people often end up on therapy where this time real specialists have to deal with the damage. Some people just shouldn't go into role playing or even meditation - and responsible teachers, or even zen masters know that.

[thunder]

I took a performing arts course in high school (looong time ago). We were mostly taught the Stanislavskij method, which I think it's the most commonly used in European drama schools. It's not like the Lee Strasberg, which is a lot more personal, and that thye have to foind their emotions in personal traumas etc. I frankly think his method wasn't of any help to Marilyn Monroes mental health. It's based on Stanislavskij, but is much more extreme, as far as i understand it.

I have Martin Freeman expressing his anger at method actors as well (Jim Carey in Man on the Moon, as an example) and that Brad Pitt went of on Shie LeBeouf during the filming of Fury. I think it matters how they are doing their job and that they don't get in the way on the others doing their job. You can't work with people that demand to be treated like emperor Napoleon. Misbehaving because of art doesn't fly with anyone. I don't hear anyone criticize Daniel Day Lewis, so he probably understand and get the balance a lot better, even if he is quite extreme in how far he goes to get into character as well.

Cinemablend interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIDaqVQ3hok

Mark Kermode podcast, Jason comes on at around 23:00:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yEUAA ... f0f81f4608

Edit:
Interviews with "The Ratliffs", mostly about the brothers, but the rest too, towards the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgGREaT4TAY

[thunder]

Not really an interview, but Duke university is upset Timothy used their T-shirt.:
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/duke-w ... 236349327/

I like that Jason is in a big thing that gets a lot of buzz, but there are sure a lot more negativity than we are used to...

Also, how they frame this, that it's somehow Jason's fault?

This isn’t the first time Isaacs has drawn controversy surrounding his “White Lotus” role.

I think he just wore what they tell him to wear.

Edit: Something positive, a video from the Kermode podcast:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtXgrINVVV/

[Antoni Bandzior]

Well, the problem right now isn't Jason's really, but the producers. If they didn't pay for copyrights they might be forced either to pay extra or remove the trademark from the show.

Jason reposted this from Hunger Magazine
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtkrDaNv7g/?hl=pl

Hopefully they'll have some interview soon as well.

[thunder]

I don't think they have a case, to be honest. Creative license...

Thanks for posting, nice picture
And I'm glad he has started to share more in Instagram

[Antoni Bandzior]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtqRpBIv_Y ... VydWhpeQ==

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtm30FohS2 ... dzcnZxazV4

Two more pics, still no interview

[thunder]

Maybe it will come later. I'm still waiting for the puppies that he mentioned.

Condé Nast Traveler España interview:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHs_GflMDCk/

[Antoni Bandzior]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHv7qXyqKeV ... 84NXdjag==

Collider photoshoot

[thunder]

Thank you!

The News Agents interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwCK83lNZ0

[Antoni Bandzior]

https://collider.com/jason-isaacs-inter ... ite-lotus/

Collider interview

[Anniemouse]

Great interview.

[Antoni Bandzior]

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxQmqOQdYdgGv ... ETpVFgRZFD

Nothing yet, but at least they're working on it.
Murderous puppies on the way!

[thunder]

Finally, it's coming.

Vulture interview (spoilers for episode 7):
https://www.vulture.com/article/jason-i ... rview.html

[Antoni Bandzior]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephlongo/ja ... uHRP-uZFew


Murderous evils are here!

https://youtu.be/DSPQWQ1tVn8