how he described how Marlon acted out that tender vulnerability within that hard exterior was so on point! How he had the ambivalent qualities and how he played Terry Malloy was touching.
Fantastic interview! Elia Kazan, himself an immigrant in the US, was a genius with actors in theatre and films. All of his creations were masterpieces ✨
Method Acting: A revolutionary acting approach that eschewed movie-star make-believe in favor of total immersion of a role, from the external details of a costume to the character's internal psychology. Dozens of actors have since embraced Method-esque techniques, from Dustin Hoffman to Leonardo DiCaprio, but few actors have harnessed it so well as those who worked with Mr. Kazan. "the camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope", Kazan once said. "It penetrates , it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts. I have been able to do that with actors. I have revealed things that actors didn't even know they were revealing about themselves". His main "rule' was that rather than try to improve the performance from without, as say Federico Fellini would, he tried to pull it from within. You can't get it out of them unless it's in them. he said.
