Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting

Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting

I’ve always been uh fixated on uh Marlon Brando’s performance as uh himself, but it’s particularly his performance as as Superman’s dad in the first Superman film where like he has to say the word Krypton in that movie, the the planet where Superman is from. And I’ve never seen this. Does he like not say it? Is he like krypton? You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. That’s exactly how he says it. He says krypton. Krypton He can’t commit to Krypton. I’ve literally I can picture this and I’ve never seen the movie krypton and everyone else in the movie says krypton and I’m sure at some point somebody’s like you know Marlin it’s actually pronounced krypton and then I brought this up this poor poor male actors god it must it must just be so painful it must have been hard to be Marla Brado so performance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine you know what I mean like there’s no bravado in in suggesting that you’re a mouthpiece now for someone else’s ideas and that to sort of lend yourself, you know, it’s just inherently submissive. Yeah. Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method? And I mean like really like you know, and I’m not coming for like the method. I I don’t even know enough about the method. I mean, the only name that comes to mind is a teacher, you know, Stella Adler, but I can’t I can’t think of a a performer who’s associated with it, right? um in the way that some men are associated with it, right? Men are a grandized for retaining self, you know, that was like he’s been really like he sounds like a hero, doesn’t he? Yeah. Um, if a woman did that, it would be uh really I I I tr and and I don’t want to say this like black and white, like for sure I know that there would be this difference, but I I truly believe from a very insidider perspective that if you have to do 50 push-ups before your closeup or if you refuse to sort of say a word a certain way or if you can’t sit down in an interview and not kind of like repossess and belittle every question, especially if asked by a woman to you, the movie star. I mean like Brando, he’s an I mean like I’m not coming for him. Incredible performer. There’s a kind of like um really common act that happens before the acting happens sometimes on set. Not only does it waste time, it draws attention. And it siphons. And look, I get it sort of makes if it makes everyone stand at attention and sort of if it if it if you can protrude out of the vulnerability a little bit and you can sort of feel like, you know, a gorilla pounding their chest before they cry on camera, it’s a little less embarrassing to see. And also, it makes it seem like it’s a magic trick. It makes it seem like it’s so impossible to do what you’re doing that nobody else could do it.

Kristen Stewart’s acting career began when she was a child, and she became a star in her late teens with the “Twilight” series. Now 35, her first feature film as a director, “The Chronology of Water,” is in select theaters. She joined “The Interview” host David Marchese to talk about filmmaking, fame and more.

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