[Secret Agent Man]

Method acting doesn’t require total immersion and not breaking character the entire time including when you are not on stage/camera. It is reasonable to say some/many people say thats a bit excessive and doesn’t really help things much in the end. How does it help in off-screen real world dealings? It doesn’t.

[Impy]

I heard Jared Leto It’s a real psycho with it, especially when he was playing the Joker.

[Alberta's Child]

There was one movie where it made total sense to immerse the actors in their characters, and because of the unique nature of the movie it probably wouldn’t have worked any other way.

It was “Miracle,” and the approach they used for casting the movie dictated that they had to manage the cast differently than any other movie. Basically, the director and casting crew knew early on that they couldn’t possibly teach actors how to play hockey … so they used hockey players for those roles and gave them all a crash course in acting.

Kurt Russell said in an interview that the only way to make that work was to have the young actors completely adopt the names and personalities of the Team USA players from 1980.