Posted 0 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownPeople Are Obsessed With Kristen Stewart Dragging Men For Method Acting"Kristen Stewart is kind of blowing my mind."by Natasha JokicBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Kristen Stewart is back with a hot take about men and method acting. Michael Buckner / IndieWire via Getty Images Now, method acting is traditionally about using your own lived experiences to inform how you portray a character's emotions. However, it's become popularly known as when an actor takes on the persona of their character for the duration of the project. See: Adrien Brody, Jared Leto, Daniel Day-Lewis, and so on. Taylor Hill / FilmMagic In a conversation with the New York Times, Kristen was asked whether she related to Marlon Brando's approach to method acting, specifically when he pronounced "Krypton" as "Kryp-tin" in a Superman movie to retain "artistic independence" while doing a "sellout" movie. "Poor male actors. It must be so painful," Kristen remarked. View this video on YouTube New York Times / Via youtube.com "That kick-started so many things! Performance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine. There's no bravado in suggesting that you're a mouthpiece for someone else's ideas," she continued. "It's inherently submissive. Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method?" New York Times / Via youtube.com Kristen continued, "Men are aggrandized for retaining self. Brando sounds like a hero, doesn't he? If a woman did that, it would be different. If you have to do 50 push-ups before your close-up or refuse to say a word a certain way." New York Times / Via youtube.com "There's a common act that happens before the acting happens on set: If they can protrude out of the vulnerability and feel like a gorilla pounding their chest before they cry on camera, it's a little less embarrassing. It also makes it seem like a magic trick, like it is so impossible to do what you're doing that nobody else could do it," she added. New York Times / Via youtube.com Calling the "Krypton" moment "defensive," she continued, "I had a recent conversation that will speak to this. I asked a fellow actor: Have you ever met a female actor that was method and needed to scream and do a whole thing? As soon as I said 'male actor, female actor,' the reaction was like, Do not mention the elephant in the room. And he goes, 'Oh, actresses are crazy.'" New York Times / Via youtube.com Her words quickly made the rounds: RasberryRazz / Via x.com awards_watch / Via x.com You can read the full interview here.
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People Are Obsessed With Kristen Stewart Dragging Men For Method Acting
December 8, 2025
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