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Leonardo DiCaprio and More Actors Inspired by James Dean
On what would have been James Dean's 94th birthday, we look at Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and more actors inspired by the ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ star
Dean’s layered and often poignant acting in Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden continues to inspire stars from later generations, with the two aforementioned movies, along with 1956’s posthumously released Giant, being inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The future Edward Scissorhands star discovered that Dean was an adopter of method acting, where he used a set of physical and sociological techniques developed by Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski and popularized by teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner in the United States. Phillip Faraone/Getty ImagesThe three-time Emmy-winning West Wing actor was the keynote speaker at the James Dean 50th Anniversary Year Global Media Event in 2007, where he suggested the Giant star “transcended” the art of acting.
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