List Rules Vote up the actors you believe took their roles a bit too seriously – the most hardcore method acting stories.
Method acting, which was born within the philosophy of the Stanislavski system and
popularized by the Strasberg Institute, has many famous adherents, from
Marlon Brando to Marilyn Monroe. However, the past 40 years or so have
ushered in a rise of brilliant actors who took method acting way too
far.
"Too far," of course, is a subjective term. For many, the
hardcore commitment simply comes with the territory. But as is the case
with almost any experiment, the forces that be can backfire. Heath
Ledger, for example... who may have actually died for his final,
unforgettable turn as the Joker... tops the list of actors whose lives
were destroyed by method acting, quite literally. Or so the legend goes,
anyway.
However, accidents can happen to anyone, and the
business also abounds with method acting consequences that were as
extreme as they were short-lived. Consider Christian Bale, who almost
starved himself to death for his role in The Machinist. Or Divine, who famously upstaged everyone by actually eating a piece of real dog sh*t for the sake of art.
While
consuming dog feces may not be one of the worst manifestations of
method acting, it's surely the most repulsive (even though Nicolas Cage
did eat a live cockroach for Vampire's Kiss).
Nevertheless, there's a lot more where that came from. Read on to
inquire further... and to vote up the actors who went beyond even above
and beyond for their craft.
Photo: New Line CinemaIn 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini shook the cinematic world with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom,
which featured a literal banquet of sh*t. However, said feces were
still just chocolate and marmalade. And that's why that scene ain't got
nothing on what Divine did in 1972's Pink Flamingos, which is literally eat dog poop... fresh from the canine in question's bowels... right off the street.
As Divine (nee Glenn Milstead) once told a journalist,"I
followed that dog around for three hours just zooming in on its
assh*le." After the act, however, s/he became paranoid, and apparently
called a Baltimore emergency room to ask about the potentially "harmful
effects" of ingesting dog feces.
A shocking stroke of method
acting, but not one likely to ever be repeated. As director John Waters
put it, "I'll never be able to do a sequel to Pink Flamingos because it would have to end with Divine taking a sh#t and the dog eating it."
AGENPOKERTERPERCAYA Photo: Studio CanalChristian Bale, who made his debut in 1987's Empire of the Sun, has always been known, even as a child, as an actor who's not afraid to take his craft to the extreme. But in 2004's The Machinist, he went way beyond the pale... and almost way beyond mortality, itself. According to sources,
Bale dined on "only an apple and a can of tuna a day" for weeks leading
up to the beginning of production. Finally, medical professionals
entreated him to stop, warning him that he would likely "die if his
weight got down any lower."
As Bale's co-star Michael Ironside remembers it,
"I
came to work one day... and I heard 'pssst...Michael!' from behind one
of the cabanas. And I went over, and it was Chris. And he said, 'Can you
look at this?' And he turned and dropped his overalls, which he was
naked under... and the muscles in his ass had literally dropped out of
the sockets of his hips... I said, 'You've gone beyond body fat, and now
you're into actual muscle tissue and things are being affected."
Nevertheless, Bale persevered, and garnered widespread critical acclaim for his performance.
Malcolm McDowell Temporarily Blinded Himself For 'A Clockwork Orange'
Photo: Warner BrothersActor
Malcolm McDowell was almost as much of a perfectionist as director
Stanley Kubrick himself was. But when it came to doing multiple takes of
potentially physically damaging scenes, said dedication could sometimes
backfire. During the famous "forced viewing" sequence in A Clockwork Orange,
real eye doctors were used, but McDowell still suffered harrowing
damage in the form of scratched corneas and, worse yet, temporary
blindness – all as a result of having his "eyes propped open for too
long."
AGENTPOKERTERPERCAYA Photo: Sony PicturesSince
his filmic beginnings as a Disney kid, Shia LaBeouf has evolved into
something of a spectacularly dedicated method actor. He may or may not
have had real onscreen sex for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, but that pales in comparison to what he did for 2014's Fury. According to Screen Rant,
LaBeouf "cut his own face with an actual knife – and kept it from
closing up throughout shooting." He also allegedly had his own tooth
yanked out, sans painkillers. He refused to bathe for a full month, and
is said to have spent a good amount of time "watching horses
die,” though that may just be a euphemism... for something.
Photo: Warner BrothersThe extent to which Heath Ledger's final role in The Dark Knight might or might not have contributed to his death remains controversial. As Uproxx expains it,
"Ledger
was no stranger to Method acting, and he took his commitment to the
role seriously ... as [he] threw himself into the film, his sleep began
to suffer. He told The New York Times ... that
he 'probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't’stop
thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.'”
As
a result, Ledger started taking Ambien as a sleep aid... and the rest
is history. However, many who know him insist that there was no
relationship (however tenuous) between the role and his fatal overdose.
AGENPOKERTERPERCAYA Photo: Universal PicturesChristian
Bale isn't the only actor to have nearly starved himself to death for a
role. He had a notable inspiration and predecessor: the 6'1 Adrien
Brody, who dropped down to a dangerous 130 pounds for Roman Polanski's
award-winning 2004 film The Pianist.
The
movie, which chronicles the concentration camp days of pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman, was a personal as well as a professional commitment
for Brody. As he told the SF Gate,
"[Szpilman] survived
this and made (his experiences) available to the world ... playing a
real person, you have the obligation to do it the right way. During the
time I was starving myself, the thing I was most comforted by was
playing the music. It calmed me and allowed me to some degree to
distract myself from my own loneliness at that time."
Photo: Miramax FilmsSince its inception, Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade
has become a beloved cult classic. Thornton was deeply committed to his
role as the mentally impaired (yet strangely wise) Karl Childers
– right down to the last detail. Legend has it that he even put crushed glass in his shoes to make Karl's walk "more awkward and consistent."
16 people just voted onKlaus Kinski Went To Extremes In Pretty Much Everything
Photo: BFIRelegating
Klaus Kinski to the ranks of "mere" method acting seems almost quaint,
in many ways. Kinski – whose onscreen insanity is legendary
– drove himself to extremes for veritably every part he played. He was
so crazed in his Fitzcarraldo role that a
couple of the Peruvian natives (and extras) on the set of said film
allegedly offered to kill him for director Werner Herzog. (According to
Herzog, he declined, but only because he needed Kinski in order to
finish the movie.)
Additionally, Kinski almost fatally stabbed an extra through the head, and during the filming of Crawlspace, he got so far into his role as a deranged former Nazi that he started multiple fights on set, and almost got fired outright.
Photo: Miramax FilmsLike
Klaus Kinski, Daniel Day-Lewis is known for pulling out all the stops
in order to embody his characters. (For his role as cerebral
palsy-ridden artist Christy Brown in 1989's My Left Foot,
for example, he never left his wheelchair... and eventually ended up
breaking two ribs as a result of his continually hunched over and
twisted position.)
Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York was no exception. Legend has it that Day-Lewis refused to break character on or off set. According to sources,
though it was storming outside, "he refused to wear a warm
jacket because it wasn't’period-accurate." He subsequently got
pneumonia and refused treatment... because 21st century
medicine wasn't period-accurate, either.
Photo: Sony PicturesWhen Chloë Sevigny perfomed "unsimulated fellatio" on her Brown Bunny
co-star (and former flame) Vincent Gallo – who, of course, also wrote
and directed the film – a veritable scandal ensued. Sevigny claims that
she doesn't regret anything, but the scene's fallout was still a little
hard to swallow.
According to an interview she did for W Magazine,
the actress admits that the part had an adverse affect on her
personal life. "It hurt me, in a lot of ways…some relationships have had
trouble with it. Of course, my mom and I don’t talk about it.”
On
the other hand, part of the reason Sevigny agreed to do the scene was
to "push back against her growing fame at the time"... which is the
admirable mark of a true indie pioneer.
Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerThe year before he played Sailor Ripley in Wild at Heart, Nicolas Cage starred in Vampire's Kiss,
which has since become a cult classic. Cage played Peter Loew, a
mentally unstable literary agent who believes he's been bitten by a
vampire.
Cage took the role seriously... so much so that he insisted on not staging the scene in which Peter eats a live cockroach. According to IMDB,
the moment required three takes; Cage later explained that "every
muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."
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