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: Bill Nighy explains a fundamental difference between how the bulk of British actors do it versus the way "great actors and actresses" are said to do it
...and high-profile and even non-high-profile British actors outgun every level of American actors in nearly ever way.
It's the myth of the Olympus-level Method Actor. For my money and in my experience, the Method is working way, way, way harder and at greater all-around expense and hassle to get a more efficiently got just as good result.
: And no, Daniel Day Lewis doesn't prove me or others in my camp of actors, directors, and producers, wrong.
Method is what its adherents want to do and dig, and that's fine, but learning your lines, understanding the overall story or scene(s) and how your part figures into it, and hitting your marks gets you usually 90% of the way to "Holy shit! That guy (or gal) is GREAT!"