11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives

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.

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Divine Literally Ate Sh*t For 'Pink Flamingos'

Divine is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: New Line Cinema

In 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."

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Christian Bale Starved Himself For 'The Machinist'

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Christian Bale is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Studio Canal

Christian 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.

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Malcolm McDowell Temporarily Blinded Himself For 'A Clockwork Orange'

Malcolm McDowell Temporarily B... is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Warner Brothers

Actor 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."

Shia LaBeouf Yanked His Teeth Out And Stabbed Himself In The Face For 'Fury'

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Shia LaBeouf is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Sony Pictures

Since 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.

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Heath Ledger May Actually Have Lost His Life To His "Joker" Role

Heath Ledger is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Warner Brothers

The 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.

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Adrien Brody Also Starved Himself For 'The Pianist'

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Adrien Brody is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Universal Pictures

Christian 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."

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Billy Bob Thornton Walked Around With Glass In His Shoes For 'Sling Blade'

Billy Bob Thornton is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Miramax Films

Since 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."

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16 people just voted onKlaus Kinski Went To Extremes In Pretty Much Everything

Klaus Kinski Went To Extremes is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: BFI

Relegating 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.

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Daniel Day-Lewis Caught Pneumonia Because He Refused To Wear A Modern Coat While Filming 'Gangs Of New York'

Daniel Day-Lewis is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Miramax Films

Like 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.

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Chloë Sevigny Performed A Real Sex Act In 'The Brown Bunny'

Chloë Sevigny is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Sony Pictures

When 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.

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Nicolas Cage Ate A Live Cockroach For 'Vampire's Kiss'

Nicolas Cage is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list 11 Times Method Acting Nearly Destroyed Actors' Lives — Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The 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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