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Natalie Portman: method acting is a ‘luxury that women can’t afford’
Oscar winner says the needs of children and partners prevent women from using the technique, often associated with male actors like Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis
It is most often aligned with male actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Andrew Garfield, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Strong and Jared Leto. Shia LaBeouf pulled out one of his teeth during production of Fury, and Garfield stopped eating or having sex while playing a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese’s Silence. More recently, Carey Mulligan told Variety she tried method acting techniques for the first time while playing Felicia Montealegre in Maestro, on the advice of her co-star and director Bradley Cooper, who stayed in character as Leonard Bernstein even while directing.
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