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Poll: Best Method Actor

Who Do You Consider To Be The Best Method Actor of All Time??
Method Acting is a term you've probably heard more and more frequently in recent years. There is a certain mysticism to it that conjures up images of actors going to bizarre lengths in pursuit of realistic performances. We're going to vote for actors who gave us a truly believable performance.

Wikipedia defines Method acting as a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by many different theatre practitioners.

Here are some well-known Method Actors who went to such extraordinary lengths to get in a character that their performance has pushed the boundaries of the bizarre. Which actor's performance do you think has touched the bottom of your heart?

Discuss here

Results of 2,642 votes:

  1. 1.

    Daniel Day-Lewis

     
    Best known for There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, Lincoln, The Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Phantom Thread, The Age of Innocence, The Crucible, and The Boxer.
  2. 2.

    Marlon Brando

     
    Best known for Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Julius Caesar, The Wild One, Last Tango in Paris, Superman, The Score, Sayonara, Viva Zapata!, A Dry White Se…
  3. 3.

    Christian Bale

     
    Best known for American Psycho, The Machinist, American Hustle, The Fighter, Empire of the Sun, Hostiles, Harsh Times, Vice, The Big Short, Ford v Ferrari, The Prestige, Equilibrium, and The Dark Knig…

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