There are those who use one method and those who use the other, those who use Meisner and Lee Strasberg, or Michael Chekhov, Viola Spolin or even the famous Stanislavski. Acting methods and techniques are varied and complex and involve varying degrees of identification between the actor and his character. There is an actor who lives alone in a room for weeks, and one who does not wash for days, and there are those who simply act.
And there are actors who are forced to master professions, sports, hobbies, sometimes even completely absurd ones, because the role requires it. And then, it’s not always possible to “pretend like it.” Take Zendaya, who trained in circus skills for The Greatest Showman, or Margot Robbie, who skated for 5 months, 5 days a week, 4 hours a day – including Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and the day before. wedding – filming in “Tone”. And if you have to play a cook, and you don’t even know how to light the stove, what should you do? Well, if your name is Jeremy Allen White, you take an intensive course at the Institute of Culinary Education and then work in the kitchen of a star restaurant. And now you are ready for “The Bear”.
Cooking, ice skating, or playing tennis are activities that can still be beneficial. What about Keanu Reeves, who for John Wick had to learn how to bind books, his character’s hidden passion, only to then see all the scenes in which he did the bookbinding? Special mention must go to Robert De Niro, who, in addition to training to box for Raging Bull, worked as a licensed taxi driver for several weeks in order to be ready for his role in Taxi Driver. And then there’s Tom Cruise… Flying a fighter jet? Made. Play guitar and piano? Made. Jump from a mountain on a motorcycle, and then leave it and reach the ground by parachute? Done, that too.
Tags: Zendaya, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise