{"id":260491,"date":"2025-11-04T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:40:07","slug":"daniel-day-lewis-takes-no-responsibility-for-jeremy-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260491\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Day-Lewis takes no responsibility for Jeremy Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Daniel Day-Lewis was temporarily out of the game, a lot of commentary went on about how he played it. Noted Method acting hater Brian Cox, for instance, speculated<\/a> that Day-Lewis\u2019 commitment to Method burned him out and pushed him into early retirement. Cox also bemoaned that his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong took his Method cues<\/a> from his once-boss and idol Day-Lewis. Unsurprisingly, Day-Lewis wants nothing to do with this discourse.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I worked with Brian Cox once and got somehow drawn into this handbags-at-dawn conflict inadvertently. Brian is a very fine actor who\u2019s done extraordinary work. As a result, he\u2019s been given a soapbox\u2026 which he shows no sign of climbing down from. Any time he wants to talk about it, I\u2019m easy to find,\u201d Day-Lewis told <\/a>Big Issue<\/a> magazine<\/a>, somewhat menacingly. \u201cIf I thought during our work together I\u2019d interfered with his working process, I\u2019d be appalled. But I don\u2019t think it was like that. So I don\u2019t know where the fuck that came from. Jeremy Strong is a very fine actor, I don\u2019t know how he goes about things, but I don\u2019t feel responsible in any way for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Day-Lewis previously stated<\/a>, Method acting is not a cult that he has induced acolytes like Strong to join. Nor does he believe that it has a big impact on his co-stars. (Strong would agree: \u201cIt\u2019s a very solitary thing. I think there\u2019s very low impact on others except for what they might want to project onto it and how that might make them feel,\u201d he said in 2023.) Day-Lewis feels the Method has been \u201cmisrepresented\u201d by critics who don\u2019t have \u201cany understanding of how it works and the intention behind it.\u201d Antics like living in a jail cell for six months (for In The Name Of The Father) \u201care the least important details,\u201d Day-Lewis claimed. \u201cIn all the performing arts, people find their methods as a means to an end. It\u2019s with the intention of freeing yourself so you present your colleagues with a living, breathing human being they can interact with. It\u2019s very simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

The disdain for going full method \u201cpisses [Day-Lewis] off\u201d because \u201cit\u2019s invariably attached to the idea of some kind of lunacy.\u201d But the venerated Oscar winner himself seems to have a fair amount of disdain for his less serious peers, to hear him tell it. \u201cI choose to stay and splash around, rather than jump in and out or play practical jokes with whoopee cushions between takes or whatever people think is how you should behave as an actor,\u201d he concluded. That kind of scorn isn\u2019t going to help Method shake its pretentious reputation, but Day-Lewis has certainly earned himself some pretensions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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