Benedict Cumberbatch, Lady Gaga and Jeremy Strong have all shared their acting processes recently
(Picture: )As we head into Hollywood awards season, a wry saying springs to mind: the award doesn’t go to the person who did the best acting, but the person who did the MOST acting. And at the moment, it certainly feels like there’s a lot of acting going on.
There’s something highly entertaining about reading the bonkers things actors will do to try and lose themselves in a role. Are they just sharing their process? Are they self-mythologising? Whatever it is, knowing they’ve done something puritanical or eccentric to Become The Character might make us view their performance with a new level of respect – or, at least, morbid intrigue.
