![]() ![]() And you see all of that conflict play out." At the same time, she's a human being who's grieving she needs comfort. "Meanwhile, Lee Grant's character is overwhelmed with emotion. But as a Black man in the South, he's also got to protect himself in that moment. Poitier's character needs to comfort this woman, he needs to get information out of this woman. These two characters, they have a conflict that's playing out both internally and externally. But that, for my money, is the best-acted scene in the whole movie. "That's actually my favorite scene in the movie," Butler said. ![]() He pointed to a scene from the film "In the Heat of the Night," in which Lee Grant's character learns from Sidney Poitier that her husband is dead. And the Method was very, very attractive to that younger generations that was feeling oppressed by the kind of conformity of the late 1930s, early '40s moment." Isaac Butler, author of "The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act," said, "In that post-war moment, you have this younger, rebellious generation that needs a way of speaking the truth. What the Method is really about is truthful acting. It's Daniel Day Lewis staying in character when the cameras aren't rolling Robert De Niro becoming a real cabbie to prepare for "Taxi Driver" and Nicole Kidman staying in character for five months on the Hulu show "Nine Perfect Strangers." The Method is many things to many people. ![]()
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