{"id":312672,"date":"2025-12-12T20:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:25:40","slug":"performance-is-inherently-vulnerable-kristen-stewart-says-acting-is-unmasculine-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312672\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Performance is inherently vulnerable\u2019: Kristen Stewart says acting is \u2018unmasculine\u2019 | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristen Stewart has claimed that acting is \u201cunmasculine\u201d and \u201cinherently submissive\u201d, and that male actors developed \u201cthe method\u201d to compensate.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the New York Times<\/a>, Stewart was asked about Marlon Brando\u2019s performance in the 1978 film Superman, and after saying she hadn\u2019t seen the movie said that his apparent inability to pronounce the word \u201cKrypton\u201d correctly was \u201cpainful\u201d. She added: \u201cPerformance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine. There\u2019s no bravado in suggesting that you\u2019re a mouthpiece for someone else\u2019s ideas. It\u2019s inherently submissive. Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMethod acting\u201d is a term used to describe the immersive techniques<\/a> derived from the practice of performance first outlined by Russian theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski in a series of books, beginning in 1924 with My Life in Art. The style was popularised in the US by the Group Theatre in the 1930s and by the Actors Studio, which was founded in 1947. Notable female students at the Actors Studio include Ellen Burstyn, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Melissa Leo and Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n

If [male actors] can feel like a gorilla pounding their chest before they cry on camera, it\u2019s a little less embarrassing<\/p>\n

Stewart went on to say that \u201cmen are aggrandised for retaining self\u201d and that \u201cif a woman did that, it would be different\u201d. She added: \u2018\u201cIf you have to do 50 push-ups before your closeup or refuse to say a word a certain way \u2026 There\u2019s a common act that happens before the acting happens on set: if [male actors] can protrude out of the vulnerability and feel like a gorilla pounding their chest before they cry on camera, it\u2019s a little less embarrassing. It also makes it seem like a magic trick, like it is so impossible to do what you\u2019re doing that nobody else could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Stewart objected to the idea that female actors are somehow emotionally unbalanced. Saying that \u201cthe \u2018Krypton\u2019 thing is so defensive\u201d, she said: \u201cI asked a fellow actor: \u2018Have you ever met a female actor that was method and needed to scream and do a whole thing?\u2019 As soon as I said \u2018male actor, female actor\u2019 \u2026 he goes, \u2018Oh, actresses are crazy.\u2019 Then I was like: hold on a second. You just called me crazy! Cool. So now we\u2019re doing the typical thing where the girl\u2019s crazy, and you didn\u2019t even listen to anything I said?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart has claimed that acting is \u201cunmasculine\u201d and \u201cinherently submissive\u201d, and that male actors developed \u201cthe method\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-312672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}