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  • Each aspiring performer is taken through an intensive method-acting workshop before inventing a character and acting in a short film with his or her various co-stars.

    Waking Lives, Dream States Steve Dollar 2011

  • In the show, he mocks some of his fellow actors for their method-acting rituals and giant egos, but he said he's not concerned about getting ostracized by the industry as a result.

    Learning to Be a Clown 2011

  • At the center of this ecstatic agony is Natalie Portman's Nina, a New York ballerina chosen to play the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a role that is indeed an honor, but also a real life method-acting nightmare.

    Kim Morgan: Lay Leda Lay: Black Swan Kim Morgan 2010

  • However, if deep in his chest there are buried some strong emotions, if he is holding back because he believes it is uncouth to voice one's feeling; if he keeps these feelings under the hood because he long ago learned not to fall prey to them -- then the time has come for some quick lessons by one of his many method-acting friends.

    Amitai Etzioni: Should Cool Obama Warm Up? 2010

  • Joaquin the Method Actor: Joaquin, an obviously phenomenal actor, is engaged in a post-modern, Stanyslavsky-esque method-acting project... acting the role of an actor who no longer wants to be an actor.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • At the center of this ecstatic agony is Natalie Portman's Nina, a New York ballerina chosen to play the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a role that is indeed an honor, but also a real life method-acting nightmare.

    Kim Morgan: Lay Leda Lay: Black Swan Kim Morgan 2010

  • Joaquin the Method Actor: Joaquin, an obviously phenomenal actor, is engaged in a post-modern, Stanyslavsky-esque method-acting project ... acting the role of an actor who no longer wants to be an actor.

    Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • At the center of this ecstatic agony is Natalie Portman's Nina, a New York ballerina chosen to play the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a role that is indeed an honor, but also a real life method-acting nightmare.

    Kim Morgan: Lay Leda Lay: Black Swan Kim Morgan 2010

  • Joaquin the Method Actor: Joaquin, an obviously phenomenal actor, is engaged in a post-modern, Stanyslavsky-esque method-acting project ... acting the role of an actor who no longer wants to be an actor.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • At the center of this ecstatic agony is Natalie Portman's Nina, a New York ballerina chosen to play the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a role that is indeed an honor, but also a real life method-acting nightmare.

    Kim Morgan: Lay Leda Lay: Black Swan Kim Morgan 2010

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