Marlon Brando pictured here preparing for his role in The Men, he spent a month at a paraplegic hospital preparing to play a disabled character. 1950.temmoku t1_j2b2cmd wrote
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Method acting. Aside from arguments from our perspective about whether they could have cast a paraplegic actor, He took the effort to learn about their lives so he could portray a paraplegic person realistically. I don't think that is a bad thing
MikeyNapoli OP t1_j2b8lmn wrote
Correct. It's common place amongst method actors. Robert De Niro worked as a real taxi driver, picking up passengers around New York City during breaks from shooting Taxi Driver. When playing a homeless man in a 1993 episode of the BBC anthology series Screenplay titled “Safe,” Robert Carlyle actually spent two weeks living on the streets.
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