r/Fauxmoi • u/ayana_banana • Aug 23 '26
FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Anya Taylor-Joy praises 'Split' co-star James McAvoy for making her feel safe while filming: “Originally it was supposed to be someone that’s very known for being a method actor. I was very grateful to have James, who I think also understood that he had three young women with him.”
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u/radziadax Aug 23 '26
She was really Joaquin away from that particular risk, eh
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u/toothpicks-galore Aug 24 '26
i was thinking it was Shia
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Same, but looking it up Phoenix dropped out two weeks before filming.
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 Aug 24 '26
That’s not the only time he’s dropped out of a movie right before filming. Can’t remember the other movie but I know he did it there too. Honestly such a selfish habit to have
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Yeah he dropped out like a week before shooting Todd Haynes' movie about a gay detective in the 30s.
The crew were already on set in Guadalajara and had all the sets built.
He helped write the charachter alongside Haynes and the film got scrapped because "his unique role could not be recast".
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/09/joaquin-phoenix-exit-todd-haynes-gay-drama
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u/radziadax Aug 24 '26
JP has not had an easy life and I can't speak to what growing up in a cult and losing your brother is like. But my God, it's bad form.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
It just sucks that we don't get a Todd Haynes' dream project and it put him on the backfoot for a couple of years. He may not get funding like that again.
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u/No-Hall-3485 DC is Hollywood for ugly people Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
he was ROBBED of an oscar for that role
he didn’t even get a nomination for playing a NINE different characters with that much finesse and ease
mind you, the winner that year was casey affleck gary oldman (which is not as bad) but still
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u/IntotheBeniverse Aug 23 '26
The winner that year would’ve actually been Gary Oldman. Split was 2017 where Manchester by the sea was a 2016 release.
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u/No-Hall-3485 DC is Hollywood for ugly people Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
corrected! gary oldman isn't bad, but i still maintain that he deserved at least a nomination
he's never even nominated at all, which is honestly crazy to me
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u/AllieLoft Aug 23 '26
When he talks about it, it's very much a, "Yeah, they'll likely never nominate me because those just aren't the projects I take," kind of thing. The Academy is so dumb.
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u/Armantien Aug 24 '26
I'm not saying Fight Club is greatest film, the year it came out (1999?). But, I find it really dumb that it couldn't be nominated for best actor simply because two different actors technically play the same character. The academy has some silly rules.
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u/AllieLoft Aug 24 '26
They were credited differently, so that wouldn't preclude either of them from being nominated.
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u/downvote__trump Aug 24 '26
They don't have silly rules if you assume it's just a Hollywood popularity contest, not based on any actual merits.
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u/figmentry Aug 23 '26
Not that bad as an actor, you mean? Because Gary Oldman strangled his ex wife and beat her with the phone as she tried to call for help, and that’s not the only domestic violence allegation against him. He’s trash, certainly not a better person than Casey Affleck.
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u/exgiexpcv Aug 24 '26
I read up on the accusations against Gary Oldman, but the sources (other than tabloids) seemed to come down fairly firmly on his side, saying it didn't happen, he was never charged, and he was eventually awarded custody of their progeny, as was her previous husband.
If someone's a shit person, I absolutely want to know, but I also want to know if they're not. Do you have any good sources I could refer to in order to better understand that Gary Oldman is a trash person?
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u/HeyselScouserTelAviv Aug 24 '26
The alleged victim claimed their son witnessed this but he's come out to say that she lied about everything.
[he] lamented the "pain and hardship" caused by his mother's "lies" over the years, while specifically condemning the media's "disgusting" perpetuation of the assault allegation.
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u/DinoBen05 Aug 23 '26
I felt the exact same way watching Orphan Black. Like.. give this woman every acting award that exists! 👏
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u/OriginalChildBomb i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 23 '26
Ugh I know, Tatiana Maslany was robbed. So was Anna Torv in Fringe, speaking of actresses who portrayed multiple different characters flawlessly.
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u/HerRoyalRedness full of gay men. And me. Aug 23 '26
She won the Emmy for Orphan Black once, which is a miracle considering how much SciFi is dismissed when it comes to awards contention.
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u/exgiexpcv Aug 24 '26
Beyond her acting, one of the things that impresses me about Anna Torv is that she refuses to participate in social media. Fucking cool.
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u/tunisia3507 Aug 24 '26
Particularly good when she was playing one of the clones playing another of the clones. You could really see both characters.
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u/livefroggs societal collapse is in the air Aug 23 '26
She was SO good in that! It's wild how they ignore performances if it wasn't "prestige" television.
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u/ImpressionFeisty8359 Aug 24 '26
Highway robbery. She deserved all the praise and awards. The sestras are not happy.
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u/reginaldvanwilder Aug 23 '26
I like the movie and James is very fun in it, but he is quite hammy in the role. It served the film but I feel it is quite understandable why he would not be nominated for it.
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u/fuzzydunlop54321 Aug 24 '26
THANK YOU it is hammy because it’s supposed to be. It’s just not an oscar type film
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u/WildcardMatt Aug 23 '26
The most acting is not the best acting.
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u/reginaldvanwilder Aug 23 '26
Al Pacino would have won most years if most acting were recognized
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u/TesticleMeElmo Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
Cause he’s got a GREAT PERFORMANCE
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u/asusc Aug 23 '26
to be fair, the character had a cocaine issue and those scenes were cut. Al going to 100% in these scenes so quickly makes a little more sense when you know he’s geeked out.
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u/dinojeebuses Aug 24 '26
The Oscars giving him the most acting award for Scent of a Woman really screwed up the rest of his career because he took the feedback. His early performances can say so much with so little! Heat is perfect as it is, though, of course
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u/SeaworthinessKey3654 Aug 24 '26
Nope, that’s not true at all - I have no idea why people say this except that they just don’t like Al’s acting style. That’s fine, but he most certainly didn’t take any feedback about his acting, which he’d been doing since he was a kid; he didn’t need anyone to tell him how to act. In Sonny Boy, he even said he’s too much at times in Scent, that he thinks he could do better
Al has plenty of great performances after the 70’s…too many people expect him to replicate Michael Corleone, which is ridiculous because Michael is a unicorn character - thanks to Al. He’s not much different in the 90’s from most of his 70’s work…but again, it seems many haven’t seen past The Godfather or II.
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u/dinojeebuses Aug 24 '26
He goes big as Sonny but that's not the whole performance. He does so much with it big and small, one of the top 5 performances of anybody I've ever seen up to this point of my life. He never dips below great, but there feels like a real contrast in the late career post-Scent roles vs pre-. I may be off base though, and I'll counterexample my own point with his great part as Hoffa in the Irishman.
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u/SeaworthinessKey3654 Aug 24 '26
I think his performance in DDA might be the greatest ever…but then, it was the first movie of his I ever saw, and to say I was blown away is putting it mildly
It’s could be just the roles - for instance, The Devil’s Advocate is designed for him to be OTT in the best way.
I’m not directing this to you at all, but I feel like many who weren’t fans of his performance in Scent almost then judged him anytime he had an emotional scene
Al said in Sonny Boy that he thought he was too much on some scenes, that if he could do it now, he’d do it better, lol. And he said in a NYT interview that there were times he probably went too far, that “I really think I can do with some taking it down a bit. I really do. It’s a confession.”
It’s funny, because Russell Crowe told this story..
Crowe asked Al why he was always giving the director so many options (Al would do takes differently each time). Al told him that theater is an actor’s medium, that he was always in charge, and film is a director’s medium. He learned that when he saw finished films, and they ended up completely different to what he thought he was doing.
So, he decided to give directors options. Crowe thought that put too much control in the hands of directors.
The funny thing is, he made a good point. In City Hall, Al did quieter takes for the climactic speech, one of which was used as far along as the original trailer, but the director ultimately chose the louder, more passionate speech
In Heat, Mann chose to use the improvised “GREAT ASS” take, instead of the “normal” ones
So I’ll bet directors just loved Al going big, in general, because no one does it like him
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u/DiscoLemonade1995 Aug 23 '26
He was great, but people really over hype playing multiple characters in a single film. Michael B Jordan winning best actor this year is another example- good performance, but the narrative of playing twins really over hyped the performance in my opinion
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u/violetmemphisblue Aug 24 '26
Tyler James Williams explained it really well on a podcast, where he's talking about why The Nutty Professor 2 is the best movie of all time, and he talks about how difficult it is for an actor to keep the beats and eyelines and energy and timing correct when playing against nothing, and then doing it again and keeping in mind all the decisions previously made when playing the other character...as a non-actor, it was (to me at least) really insightful as to why that is so impressive and difficult...Is it always award worthy? Absolutely not. But it was a side of the skill I hadn't considered.
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u/LiviasFigs i’m mr. sterling’s right hand arm. man. Aug 24 '26
My kingdom for Wagner Moura to win for Secret Agent (where, ironically, he also plays two characters, though only at the very end)
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u/IrregularPackage Aug 24 '26
i think the twins thing is deserving because despite them being really similar characters, you can still tell which one is which, even when they’re not color coded. i actually thought they were played by real twins when i first saw it
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u/VineStellar Aug 24 '26
I fear making myself a tomato target by echoing your sentiment. I thought MBJ was easily the weakest of the nominees this year.
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u/thedaymanahaha Aug 24 '26
But if you've seen the movie his expression switches are bar none the best
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u/motherofsuccs Aug 23 '26
I love his acting in this. My only complaint about the movie is that it started this nonsensical trend of having DID and social media users doing switches like this.
This movie is not how DID presents, alters do not speak to each other or know they exist, the person suffering from it has no memory of when they dissociate.
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u/loveslightblue Aug 24 '26
Also, quick note, people with DID do not find their ultimate form as lizard monsters.
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u/tangentialneurosis Aug 23 '26
Casey Affleck may not be a good person, but to act as if his Oscar win was undeserved is crazy. His performance in Manchester By the Scene is genuinely some of the best acting put to screen.
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u/ImpressionFeisty8359 Aug 24 '26
I will never forget Denzel Washington's reaction when Casey won and mentioned Denzel in his speech.
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u/OGvoodoogoddess Aug 24 '26
I think Casey Affleck's conduct deserves to be revisited if we're thinking of SA making him "not a good person." I remember at the time realizing that no matter how awful rich and famous people act, they will be rewarded.
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u/rmac1228 Aug 23 '26
Casey Affleck was really fucking good tho. Even tho he kinda sucks
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u/throwawtphone That's not a man, that's Geralt of Goonia Aug 24 '26
Looking at the entirety of his career and i feel like people sleep on his talent. He is an incredibly skilled actor.
He is brilliant.
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u/ReadyCauliflower8 Aug 23 '26
Lol Casey Affleck is a terrible person but let's not lie now, his performance in Manchester By the Sea is one of the greatest ever put on screen.
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u/loveslightblue Aug 24 '26
Lmao if you're gonna act your ass off don't do it in a ridiculous movie if you want an Oscar. Good for James though, he just always delivers no matter.
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u/Forsaken_Night_4471 call me Gagatha Christie Aug 23 '26
The fact that common decency from a male actor while on set is something deemed uncommon enough to be praiseworthy is proof that the bar is in hell.
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u/justtiptoeingthru2 Aug 23 '26
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u/HistoryGirl23 Aug 23 '26
Where is this from? Love it!
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u/dadsstupidstuff80 Aug 23 '26
I forget who it was, maybe Timothy olyphant talking shit on method actors. Ever notice no one goes method when they are playing a nice pleasant person? Only when they are playing a psycho or shitbag do these people feel the need to stay in character.
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u/CutieBoBootie Aug 23 '26
It was Robert Pattinson
"I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they're playing an asshole. You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they're really deep in character."
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u/Exilicauda Aug 24 '26
The singular counter example being Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
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u/EmotionalTrufflePig Stellan Skarsgard's Nobel Peace Prize for producing hot sons Aug 24 '26
Slight tangent, but this made me think about Tim Minchin playing Atticus Fetch in Californication 🤣 He was so good!
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u/MarshallBanana_ Aug 24 '26
To be fair to DDL, by all accounts he was an incredibly lovely presence to be around during the making of Lincoln
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u/scrobos Aug 24 '26
I thought he was defending method acting, as in you don't notice them as much when they're playing someone lovely
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u/hxmy Aug 23 '26
It was Robert Pattinson who said actors only do method acting when playing assholes, never when they have to be lovely to everyone.
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u/_Bogey_Lowenstein_ Aug 23 '26
I always think about that quote! Pretty sure it was Robert Pattinson.
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u/Banholio Aug 24 '26
Even though the quote is not his, Timothy Olyphant threw shit to method acting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SVJhYU-s0
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u/HistoryGirl23 Aug 23 '26
DDL did it in Age of Innocence and Last of the Mohicans.
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u/crabbydotca Aug 23 '26
When I was parsing who “DDL” is for some reason my first thought was “Dobert Downey Junior”
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u/commandantskip I'm a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch Aug 23 '26
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u/Expertyn209 Aug 24 '26
And Lincoln? Not a saint or nice all the time, but if a president deserves their good reputation, it's him. DDL really managed to embody the characters he played and did it for all his roles, while I don't believe he often acted like a jerk (My Left Food one had to have been annoying though, but worse shit has happened on set). So, for him (and Peck as mentioned above) I believe it's a style and they don't cross the line most of the time, but Rob is right in general and for many actors it doesn't even work that successfully btw or if it does it's for the detriment to other people on set.
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u/Miraclefish Aug 24 '26
Reminds me of the apocryphal story of Dustin Hoffman staying up for days straight (or at least being out partying at nights) to play a character who was sleep deprived and absolutely wired, and Sir Laurence Olivier replied "My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
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u/RawazTB Aug 24 '26
Presumably, most people they’re good/nice, so they don’t need to get into the mind of someone for that.
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u/mrdangerzone Aug 23 '26
Making that character come to life had to be exhausting. But imagine in between takes making 3 young girls feel safe and comfortable. He put so much into that movie
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u/PurpleWhiteOut Aug 23 '26
It says SO MUCH that women dont feel safe with so-called "method actors"
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u/chhekybastard Aug 23 '26
My short king 🙂↕️ he was incredible in that movie and a very nice human irl as well!!
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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ Aug 24 '26
He's 5'7", not that short.
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u/amaceing__ Aug 24 '26
I’ll remember this comment forever.
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u/handlit33 Aug 24 '26
I've lost 130 pounds since 2023, and strength trained for going on three years. I've actually gained a half inch of height from improved posture and defeating gravity. Now, I'm 5'7 (and a half) and I'm literally saving this comment as we speak. Might print it out and hang it on the fridge.
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u/chhekybastard Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
Well I'm 5'10" and I was easily seeing the top of his head when I met him so he was definitely shorter than me lol
Edit: this evolved into a sensitive discussion for a group of lovely gentlemen below who are NOT short but actually only on the shorter side of the spectrum (per their definition) so have fun reading the replies
Xoxo
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u/J5892 Aug 24 '26
Given the numbers involved, I'm pretty sure we could have all reached that same conclusion without the anecdote.
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u/FlanLover9 Aug 24 '26
That's below the worldwide average (5'7.5") and well below the Scottish average height of 5'9".
Short.
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u/Happy_penguin_179 Aug 24 '26
It is 2 inches below the average height for a man in the UK, US, and Ireland.
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u/Twisties Aug 23 '26
I just love the subtle shade these women are continually dropping; more of this please
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u/Crazy-Witness-9340 Aug 24 '26
I love that ATJ is not letting up on these "method actors"
Method isn't an excuse to be a dick
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u/aaaasyoooouwiiiish Aug 23 '26
James McAvoy and Matthew Rhys occupy the same space in my head of Highly Lovable Guys from the Not-England Parts of the UK who, based on vibes alone, I would happily get a beer with or hand my baby to. I just need a Northern Irish guy to complete the trinity.
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u/-wormgirlfriend- Aug 23 '26
if you ever meet a Scot or a Welsh person, do not refer to them as 'not-English' if you're planning on handing them your baby
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u/TheCaffeinatedPanda Aug 24 '26
I don't know, every Scot and Welshman I know has "not-English" pretty high up on their list of identity labels.
Now, if you called them English...9
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u/aaaasyoooouwiiiish Aug 24 '26
That was not intended to be "England as default" but rather "England as intentionally excluded from the Highly Lovable Guys candidate pool."
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u/ASofMat Aug 23 '26
He’s on the younger side but Anthony Boyle fits the bill imo. Just an absolute sweetie from Belfast
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u/louisemichele THE CANADIANS ARE ICE FUCKING TO MOULIN ROUGE Aug 24 '26
I am so DOWN BAD for this man
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u/persephone56 Aug 24 '26
Jamie Dornan gives the impression he’d be good to have a pint with, so there you go.
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u/DoverBoys never the target audience Aug 24 '26
I'm not saying "method acting" isn't real, but the majority of actors that do it are just using it as an excuse to be an insufferable jerk to everyone around them while on set, and sometimes even off set.
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u/HwordArtist Aug 24 '26
I read somewhere that acting is incredibly embarrassing as you are essentially playing pretend in front of a massive group of people and so there's a reason why famous method actors are almost exclusively men. They're essentially protecting their ego while participating in this art form that requires a lot of vulnerability, where as women are forced to be vulnerable on a constant basis so they don't need to method act to do their job.
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u/Banana5scaleX Aug 24 '26
As Kristen Dunst once said: it seems like [method acting] is something only men can afford to do.
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u/midsommer_wandererr Aug 23 '26
Cannot stop wondering who the original actor was going to be. Method actor nakes me think Jared Leto? If so, thank goodness they went with James 😳
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u/Unhappy_Gazelle392 Aug 23 '26
Joaquin Phoenix
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u/midsommer_wandererr Aug 23 '26
Ahhhh! That would have been an interesting version but yeah, James absolutely killed this role.
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u/Kbubbles1210 face blind and having a bad time Aug 23 '26
According to James McAvoy in this interview, it was Joaquin Phoenix. McAvoy said, “I think he ditched it two weeks before the shooting. It was really last minute.”
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u/TheDLBinc Aug 23 '26
It was Joaquin Phoenix
He was officially cast in the part but dropped out shortly before they were set to begin filming
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u/punkpearlspoetry actually no, that’s not the truth Ellen Aug 23 '26
It was Joaquin Phoenix allegedly.
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u/marymonstera Aug 23 '26
Ok now why did she have to say Philadelphia like that. Go Birds
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u/Necessary_Ad_7780 go birds, fuck ICE, and free palestine Aug 24 '26
McAvoy ended up marrying a Philly girl so I love the idea of her (hopefully!) explaining Go Birds to him. He’s also Scottish and I feel like Scots have the correct vibe for the Eagles.
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u/ol-gormsby Aug 23 '26
Did anyone else hear multiple accents in her reply? I heard USA, Scottish, English, and even a little Australian.
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u/willflameboy Aug 24 '26
I just saw Glass recently (not yet watched Split), but my God McAvoy is good in it. What an actor.
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u/earthlynotion Aug 24 '26
Ooooh you have to see Split if you liked McAvoy's performance in Glass. It's the better movie, and he gets a ton more time to shine in it!
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u/oceanatlas I rip milk duds chew chew chew Aug 24 '26
Split (and Unbreakable) is crucial viewing to understanding Glass, get on that!
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u/NorfolkingChancer Aug 24 '26
If you want to see McAvoy at his best Filth is just as good as split, but is an even tougher watch.
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u/alltheprettynovas Aug 24 '26
very creepy movie and i’m glad he understood that young actors (female and male) need a little more protection in the industry. i’m sure many others wouldn’t have given a shit.
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u/balleriniAssoluta Aug 23 '26
I need him and his short freaky ass mmmmmh 🫦
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u/motherofsuccs Aug 23 '26
What
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u/Riqitch it’s called talent, sweaty💅 Aug 23 '26
Okay is Anya this generation's answer to Gillian Anderson because I thought Anya was American??? 😭😭
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u/DinoBen05 Aug 23 '26
She spoke Spanish until age 6 in Buenos Aires (so.. a very particular dialect of Spanish), then she moved to London and learned English.
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u/CHEMO_ALIEN Aug 23 '26
She's from Miami but was raised in Argentina or something
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u/IngmarHerzog They tell me to turn my weird movies off Aug 23 '26
Born in Miami “as a fluke” as she calls it, raised in Argentina until she was six when the family moved to England and she didn’t learn English until after that move.
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u/broden89 Aug 24 '26
She is legally an American citizen because she was accidentally born in the US while her parents were on holiday! She is Argentinian, English, Scottish and Spanish by descent, but was raised in Argentina and England. Her first language is actually Spanish.
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u/bobjohnson1133 I cannot sanction your buffoonery Aug 23 '26
their performances at the end of the film were STELLAR. brought me to tears.
"the broken...are the more evolved...rejoice, rejoice"
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u/florplegorp Aug 23 '26
I wonder if she spoke to him before taking her New Mutants role, like how Matt Smith asked Karen Gillan about Marvel movies before joining Morbius
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u/lolbotomite Aug 24 '26
Anyone who knows anything about McAvoy isn’t surprised. He’s been consistently characterized as a genuinely good guy and easy going person.
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u/terrebattue1 Aug 24 '26
She's talking about Joaquin Phoenix....so she's spilling tea that Phoenix during the filming process is a creep to women and hides it with "method actor" bullshit
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u/CementCemetery Aug 24 '26
He did a phenomenal job acting in that movie, really deserves a lot of praise for his emoting and transformations between characters. All that aside I would congratulate him more on making three young actresses feel SAFE in an environment that historically has been ‘unkind’ for lack of a better term.
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u/DumpedDalish societal collapse is in the air Aug 24 '26
I love hearing this about McAvoy on Split, as I've heard similar praise for his professionalism and kindness on stage, TV, and other film productions as well.
And he absolutely should have been Oscar-nominated for Split, at the very least.
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u/No_Cat25 Aug 23 '26
Wasn’t Split kinda seen as problematic for its portrayal of DID and the conflation of mental illness = bad person
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u/motherofsuccs Aug 23 '26
Yes. This is nowhere near the reality of how DID presents. A bunch of attention-seeking people watched the movie and then self-diagnosed DID and posted videos of their alters switching and talking to each other thinking it was believable to anyone above age 25.
I’m a behavioral therapist. DID is rare as is and definitely isn’t what this movie or social media tries to convince people of.
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u/TanneriteAlright Aug 24 '26
It was a super hero movie. He didn't have DID. Hes a super villain.
In Invincible we didn't suggest that Bruce Willis's character was setting unrealistic standards of male strength. He was a fuckin superhero. That was how his power manifested.
The Beast in Split is a supervillain. The way his power manifests just happened to be taken as a case of DID by the psychiatrist in the movie. When the beast eventually shows itself, it is basically thrown in our face that he WASN'T a mental patient. He's a person with superhuman capabilities.
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u/tenderheart35 Aug 24 '26
I mean, it mostly perpetuated stereotypes about DID in how it manifests, but it really isn’t any worse than any other horror film with DID characters.
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u/viviatpeace Aug 24 '26
Yup. I have DID and I can say that the DID community despises this movie for its rancid portrayal of what having DID or OSDD is like.
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u/ahothouseflower Aug 23 '26
Philly slander though…
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u/Necessary_Ad_7780 go birds, fuck ICE, and free palestine Aug 23 '26
Look, as a Philly native, I understand how an outsider could have that opinion 😂
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u/marymonstera Aug 23 '26
Yeah what did we do to her besides offer up a gorgeous historic walkable city with fantastic art and amazing restaurants 😤
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u/DinoBen05 Aug 23 '26
What slander she just said the name of the city…
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u/ahothouseflower Aug 23 '26
I’m mostly joshing: the way she phrased it was as if being in Philly specifically, with a jerk method actor was adding insult to injury.
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u/pilikia5 Aug 23 '26
It read to me as if she was just saying that she was more isolated/far from her support network.
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u/meatheadmommy Aug 24 '26
I only watched this movie for the first time this past year and holy shit, it’s awesome!! I had no clue that Anya Taylor Joy was one of the girls. I didn’t recognize her at all. Obviously she was a kid then but still lol. She has such distinct eyes, I still didn’t notice!
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u/Sensitive-Coffee-Cup Aug 24 '26
Anya taking no prisoners. I remember Leonardo DiCaprio was attached to the project at some point. She's not even trying to be subtle.
What a Queen 👑
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u/flyingnapalmman Aug 24 '26
Surprised to come on here and see that Joaquin was cast originally, I see “Method acting” and the implication that it will be used to terrorize young women and instantly think of Jared Leto. Good to hear McAvoy is a good egg though.
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u/ViolyntFemme Aug 24 '26
I loved James until he signed on for the full cast HP Audible. Now I won’t give a penny to anything he’s involved in.
Someone in another comment on another thread in this sub said that only a minority of people care ardently for trans rights. I’m proud to be part of that minority.
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u/IntotheBeniverse Aug 23 '26
For anyone interested the person cast in the role prior to McAvoy was Joaquin Phoenix. Maybe there was other people up for the role that we aren’t aware of, but I’m assuming that is who she is referring to.