Brian Cox slams method acting as “American sh*t”
Actor Brian Cox is on the tear again and this time he’s going after an entire institution of acting.
After screening his new movie Prisoner’s Daughter at the Toronto International Film Festival, Brian Cox discussed the acting process, both commendable and, uh, crap.
“I don’t hold a lot of the American shit,” the Scottish Cox said of method acting, “having to have a religious experience every time you play a part. It’s crap…I don’t hang onto the characters I play. I let them go through me. The thing is to be ready to accept, as an actor. You stand there, you’re ready to accept whatever is thrown at you.” In other words, he’s not going to be building houses or catching pneumonia for a role, Daniel Day-Lewis-style.
Brian Cox has not been one to mince words lately. In his 2021 autobiography, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat,...
After screening his new movie Prisoner’s Daughter at the Toronto International Film Festival, Brian Cox discussed the acting process, both commendable and, uh, crap.
“I don’t hold a lot of the American shit,” the Scottish Cox said of method acting, “having to have a religious experience every time you play a part. It’s crap…I don’t hang onto the characters I play. I let them go through me. The thing is to be ready to accept, as an actor. You stand there, you’re ready to accept whatever is thrown at you.” In other words, he’s not going to be building houses or catching pneumonia for a role, Daniel Day-Lewis-style.
Brian Cox has not been one to mince words lately. In his 2021 autobiography, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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