Hollywood star Russell Crowe trashes ‘method’ acting

CANNES, France, May 15, 2016 – Hollywood giant Russell Crowe rubbished the basis of ”method acting” as he gave some forthright advice to aspiring actors Sunday at the Cannes film festival. Photo courtesy of smh.com.au   ”It is not complicated. Work it out yourselves,” said the famously grumpy ”Gladiator” star. He had earlier ”trashed 100 years of tradition” by ridiculing the Stanislavsky method, the basis of modern theater and movie acting. Crowe, in Cannes with his new comedy thriller ”The Nice Guys” in which he plays a leg-breaking Los Angeles debt collector, said, ”I don’t even know what the Stanislavsky method may be. I have no fucking idea, and I don’t care to know. ”You just trashed 100 years of tradition,” the director of the comic thriller Shane Black laughed. ”Fuck it,” Crowe replied. ”Seriously, it’s not that complicated. If you want to be an actor. Work it out yourselves. [...]