Patty Winter wrote:
> In article ,
> Amy Guskin   wrote:
>> No, no, that's not the way that happened.  It was during "The
Marathon Man," 
>> and Hoffman was supposed to come into some scene winded, absolutely 
>> exhausted.  The story goes, he ran around the block (somewhere in NY where 
>> they were filming**).  When he got back, he came into where they
were filming 
>> the scene and explained what he'd just done, all the while gasping for 
>> breath...to which Larry replied with the oft-quoted phrase.  
> 
> There's a scene in "Slings & Arrows" where Geoffrey
Tennant (Paul Gross)
> sends his Romeo and Juliet actors on a run around the block before they
> try a scene, and it works beautifully. That series had a lot of exquisite
> scenes.
>
That does help sometimes.  I've always looked at the Method (I'm trained 
the Meisner way myself) as a tool to use to get you through rough 
patches, not as the be-all and end-all of the process.  You have many 
tools in your toolbox, and you use the ones that help.  I've seen a 
number of actors (gender-neutral) put themselves through all kinds of 
grief with no result.

Blair
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