The Method is worth exploring and understanding if you act, but people fundamentally misunderstand it when they think you need to lose completely all sense of yourself in favor of continually "being" the character. I've been there and done that, and I have been with the people who pretend they can't walk and chew gum, so they stay in character, annoying people, pretending they don't understand the reality around them because their character was born in the 1800s or whatever. Meanwhile Olivier and Streep can turn it on and off on a dime, fully in character. The Method is a way to understand how the character feels, and how to embody it, how to live out those feelings onstage. It is not an excuse to be annoying and weird when you're all having lunch.

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