With a new cohort of Method actors working in today’s Hollywood, Daniel Day-Lewis is disappointed with the craft’s public perception.

The 3x Academy Award winner, who earned his first Oscar after establishing his own form of Method acting for My Left Foot (1989), recently admitted he’s “a little cross” with actors who go Method today as an excuse for “behaving like a lunatic.”

“I don’t really like thinking of acting in terms of craft at all. Of course, there are techniques you can learn, and I know that the Method has become an easy target these days,” he told The New York Times . “I’m a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like ‘gone full Method,’ which I think is meant to imply that a person’s behaving like a lunatic in an extre

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