{"id":300017,"date":"2025-11-22T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300017\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:05:07","slug":"11-actors-who-took-method-acting-to-a-whole-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300017\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Actors Who Took Method Acting To A Whole New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11 Actors Who Took Method Acting To A Whole New Level<\/p>\n<p>      We all know actors love committing to roles, but some can take it&#8230;a bit far with their methods \u2014 such as extreme weight loss or gain, intense months of preparation, and living and acting like their characters. While there may be a method to the madness, here are 11 times actors went to a whole new level to prepare for a role:<\/p>\n<p>      3.<\/p>\n<p>      Austin Butler in Elvis (2022)<\/p>\n<p>      4.<\/p>\n<p>      Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2016)<\/p>\n<p>      5.<\/p>\n<p>      Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)<\/p>\n<p>      6.<\/p>\n<p>      Ashton Kutcher in Jobs (2013)<\/p>\n<p>      7.<\/p>\n<p>      Robert De Niro in The Untouchables (1987)<\/p>\n<p>      8.<\/p>\n<p>      Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)<\/p>\n<p>      9.<\/p>\n<p>      Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004)<\/p>\n<p>      10.<\/p>\n<p>      Aaron Eckhart in Rabbit Hole (2010)<\/p>\n<p>      11.<\/p>\n<p>      Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)<\/p>\n<p>      Which actors&#8217; methods surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11 Actors Who Took Method Acting To A Whole New Level We all know actors love committing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2739,49,48,361,2740,75,4052,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-300017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-black-content","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-dib-celebs","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-evergreen","15":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}