What is Method Acting? How to Use It and Not Get Lost in Character

Tom Hardy breaks down why he's NOT a method actor. He says, actually, there are only two types of acting: Convincing OR Not Convincing. But… what is Method Acting? And what can we learn from it? Well, 'The Method' was created by Lee Strasberg. He is widely considered the “Father of Method Acting” in America. Strasberg didn’t invent acting, but he certainly helped revolutionise it. Building on Stanislavsky’s ideas, he created his own system which came to be known as "The Method". In this system,