Owen Gleiberman<\/a> suggests that \u201cWhat retired . . . is something that\u2019s waning in the culture: the belief in acting as a highly sculpted soul transplant\u2014as the mystical spirit of inhabitation.\u201d<\/p>\nHe fills out the point by situating Day-Lewis within two 20th-century traditions of acting.\u00a0Working on the first theory. Lawrence Olivier \u201cbuilt his characters from the outside in, manipulating his look, his voice, his posture, his gestures. Playing his own face and body like a Stradivarius, he was a genius chameleon who seemed, from role to role, to alter his very being.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlon\u00a0Brando \u201cour bard of the Method, of confessional spontaneous expression\u201d sometimes imitated Olivier\u2019s method, but \u201cthe essence of his genius is that he harnessed the power of pure being.\u201d He worked from inside out, trying to capture the titanic spirit of a character in order to bring it into flesh.<\/span><\/p>\nDay-Lewis wasn\u2019t either. Rather, \u201che was always seismically\u00a0both<\/em>: an actor of Brandoesque ferocity who fused that quality with the devotion to sheer otherness of an Olivier. That\u2019s why his borderline loopy immersion process is so integral to who he is: It\u2019s doing what Olivier did \u2014\u00a0becoming<\/em>\u00a0another person \u2014 brought off with Brando\u2019s wild-dog existential intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the retirement of actor Daniel\u00a0Day-Lewis at Variety, Owen Gleiberman suggests that \u201cWhat retired . . . is something that\u2019s waning in the culture: the belief in acting as a highly sculpted soul transplant\u2014as the mystical spirit of inhabitation.\u201d He fills out the point by situating Day-Lewis within two 20th-century traditions of acting.\u00a0Working on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"yoast_head":"\n
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