With the rapidly evolving Hollywood industry, notable actors have had to “adapt” to the changing pace of the film-making business. Jennifer Lawrence experienced this change first-hand when she worked with Christian Bale on the sets of the 2013 crime drama American Hustle.
Notably infamous for his method acting style of work, Christian Bale has been lauded as one of the finest actors out there. Despite looking at Bale’s acting skills, Jennifer Lawrence stated that she is terrified of working with method actors since she would never know how to talk to them!
Why Jennifer Lawrence Would Never Work With Method Actors
The procedure of method acting basically relies on the belief that you are essentially the person that you are portraying. This enables the actor to have a deeper dive into the character and partially start gaslighting themselves into believing that they are the character.
As scary as this procedure sounds, many notable and iconic actors use the act of method-acting to perform some of the finest pieces of acting that the world has ever seen. Among these actors, Christian Bale has been accredited to be one of the most versatile and original actors out there. Starring alongside Bale in the 2013 crime drama was Jennifer Lawrence in David O. Russell’s American Hustle. With Lawrence being afraid of method acting, the actress recalled that she would never work with method actors since she wouldn’t know how to talk to them!
“I would be scared to work with somebody who’s method because I would have no idea how to talk to them. Like, do I have to be in character? That would just make me nervous. But I haven’t seen another process that I’ve been curious about, because you don’t really know about them all the time.”
Despite having an awkward thing for method actors, Jennifer Lawrence was once indeed tempted to try it out while looking at Christian Bale on the sets of the 2013 movie. As per The Hunger Games actress, she took a little bit of help from her co-star Christian Bale which made her a better actor.
When Jennifer Lawrence Took Help From Christian Bale
“I had always been very on/off, on/off, until I did American Hustle when I worked with Chrisitan Bale and I noticed when the camera started rolling and the crew kind of started preparing like it was going to be 10 seconds or whatever until action, he would start getting ready. And then I saw that and I was like, ‘That seems like a really good idea.’ And then I started to do that.”
