What is Good Acting?
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Good acting is me acting like I want to watch this
Or like me acting like your comment is good
Good acting is me acting like I like this comment 😈
exactly
nice
Holy shit you killed him dude.
“You only ever see people do method when they’re playing an asshole” Robert Pattinson spitting straight facts, holy shit.
Little do people know Mr. Rogers was actually a hardcore method actor
People aren’t that complicated…. They just need an excuse to be shitty
I'll transcribe here what I said about Pattinson in my original comment because I think it's very relevant>
"As for Hayden Christensen, you make a GREAT point. I don't see him as that good an actor overall, but the way people went after him for the SW prequels was way too vicious and completely killed his career. Looking it from your angle, makes it even more unjust. I'm reminded of Robert Pattinson, who was TERRIBLE in the Twilight movies from the scenes I saw here and there, but since it was all the rage at the time and everyone was in love with him, he was given the chance to do incredible work in prestigious directors' movies like Cosmopolis (David Cronemberg), Good time (Safdie Brothers) and Tenet (Christopher Nolan). The thing about Twilight, it seems, is that he had absolutely no respect for the material, which I honestly understand."
@@JuPaschoal it wasn't exactly that he had no respect for the material, although after his fame exploded he did kinda feel that way about the franchise since he loathed how people started to act towards him, but it was that he initially had a different idea of how Edward would behave & about his motivations than the directors/producers did so he went in doing his initial version since that was how he prepared. They hated it. He had to completely revamp mid-project in order to keep his job. That's why the movie feels a bit like he is flipping back & forth between personalities. They didn't reshoot the earlier takes so it just kinda feels discombobulated somehow & a little uncanny valley. (My daughters were obsessed so I ended up living Twilight mania.)
After the first one where seemingly overnight the resulting fame made his life extraordinarily difficult, he started hating everything about it. He supposedly hates the franchise much less these days.
@@tazhienunurbusinezz1703 Oh, I get what you're saying. I never read the books or sat to watch any of the movies (although from all the posts and commentary I've come across throughout the years I'm pretty sure I have all the scenes covered lol), but I watched quite a few clips of his interviews during actual promotion for the movies, not even later on, and his DVD commentary and he's always making fun not only of the movies and how they look, but the books and the way the author writes as well (not only him, by the way, Kristen Stewart was often with him and in the exact same vibe). Looking at his career post-Twilight, seems clear to me that he took the gig for little to nothing more than money and exposure and was on autopilot throughout, you know? The guy is an INCREDIBLE actor and I'm glad he was able to outlive Edward.
Drew didn't mean anything he said in this video. He was just acting. Good acting.
Good acting
Gooden acting
*Great* acting, perhaps?
@@kingayy9267 No no no, no. Just good.
Greaten acting
The bad example of method acting
Jared Leto: He did random things that didn’t actually fit the character, for the sake of “method acting” (he really just wanted to be a dick)
And an example of good method acting
Christian Bale never speaking with his actual accent on set (convinced his co-workers he was American unintentionally)
Learned to (essentially) sweat on command (it’s physically impossible to do it as described but it’s close to what happened)
Didn’t do creepy stuff to people he worked with, just acted the same way he would if the cameras were rolling on a scene where he had to act “sane”
What? I thought Christian Bale was American.
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 nah hes British
@@_JJC_holy shit so he has been method acting for years????
I think that one of the best method acting examples is Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly. Subtle, but very powerful
wtff i always thought he was american 😭😭
shout out to the actors who have played completely terrible people so well that they get bullied irl bc other ppl hated the character so much. hope they're doing okay these days
Joffrey and Skylar White type beat.
@@blokvader8283 skylar hate was just angry walter white fanboys tbh
@horizonkyun7203 Yeah just misogynists who hated her because she stood in the way of "sigma heisenberg"
Atleast Joffrey's character is meant to be a piece of shit, Skylar was a fucking victim of manipulation and Narcissism.
Abbey from TLOU
@@blokvader8283skylar wasnt a horrible person lol she was a normal person in an insane situation. People found her annoying, that doesn't mean the character was ontologically evil.
good acting is when drew pretends like he knows what he’s doing and we believe him
good acting is his "wife"..
Wait are you the actors or is he ? Is she ???
Why does this have 4.3K likes and 2 comments
Fair enough
@@jacksonray3596 Everyone simply agrees, there's only replies if it's something people wanna argue about :)
I’ll tell you what good acting is. His name is Hayden Christianson in the hit film Little Italy where he says his famous quote “is your hand on my ass?” Goosebumps every time.
😂
For me it’s “afraid you might get… whet?” It just brings a tear to my eye
Or what about “Hey pa! That’s not oregano!”
I didnt like how they filmed him while that officer was ‘searching’ him, it looked like sexual harassing and they were just laughing about it in the movie. It happens to women but to men as well, double standards
weT
My favourite line from Breaking Bad is
“If you really don’t know who I am, then maybe you should tread lightly.”
It embodies everything Walter has become and shows that he knows that he knows about the collateral damage he causes and no longer cares.
And the whole line is Walt speaking, until he says “tread lightly” you could hear Heisenberg come out with those two words
waltuh
Ugh, that entire scene. Hank eyes. The best scene of the entire series
Mine is univocally a random lunch scene in season 2 between Skyler, Walter and Flynn. It’s like so tense but still maintains that fake normalcy
@@colleenharding8665 finally someone touches upon that. the way dean norris is able to display his emotions just through his eyes is incredible
A great example of non-verbal, facial acting is the last scene of Knives Out. It's basically just a full minute of reaction shots, with no dialogue whatsoever, and you can so clearly understand how each character is feeling in that moment.
YES YES YES. It’s one of my favorite movie scenes EVER
"My house, my rules, my coffee."
Ooo we’re going to watch that movie in English class soon!
@@Rauvi did you like it
Knives Out is one of my favorite movies ever, for every reason you can think of...
The thing that bothers me so much about the Jared Leto situation is that sending used condoms to your coworkers in ANY other profession would be classified as sexual harassment and would get you justifiably fired. But the fact that he proudly admits to doing it combined with how clearly uncomfortable his castmates are when they're asked about it is so disgusting and goes to show that he's just an asshole
yeah jared leto is honestly just way too full of himself. if you watch interviews and just see how he talks and acts in general... seems like a person that would think he's owed an applause for taking a good shit or smth. he probably thought he was doing something amazing with his deranged "method acting"
honestly there is no explanation for why that wouldn't be sexual harassment. "Sorry I traumatized you, I did it for my job!", like what
Yeah Jared Leto should’ve been charged with a sex crime and put on a Sex Offender list for that.
Samuel H I couldn't find anywhere where that was confirmed. It all kept saying it didn't actually happen.
I've always found him very mediocre both in acting and music. If you want to be legitimately upset and angry, poke around into the allegations against him. I don't pray on many downfalls, but I pray for his.
Good acting is “I do NOT have feelings for Christie North.”
Agreed. I mean when the movie revealed that he did in fact have feelings for Christie North, I just couldn't believe it, because he'd convinced me last time
Gawd
YEEES
BAHAHA I remember that
*fEELINGS
One antagonist character in a movie that absolutely stunned me was J.K Simmons in Whiplash. His performance as an abusive, scary, music teacher no one ever wants to experience is so on point that I get scared watching it, as if he’s yelling at me. It’s one of my favorite performances by an actor in modern movie history.
My favourite film of all time
@Kristian Alexis He plays J Jonah Jameson
@Kristian Alexis Oh, okay
I thought you meant their names were similar
I thought I was the only one! After seeing him in Whiplash and his voice acting on Invincible, I am honestly terrified whenever I hear/see him, since those two characters he played just pop to mind automatically. And to also think he played a peaceful monk in Legend of Korra? I was honestly flabbergasted by the difference.
@@almogazoulay4454 you should hear him in Portal 2
I read years ago that Brian Cranston had so many lines taken out when he was playing Walter White because he was such a good actor, he could convey things with just his facial expression and the lines weren’t needed.
Makes sense, given his character on Malcolm in the Middle had basically done everything and anything acting-wise
Anger is probably the easiest acting to do. I would say crying softly is the most impressive, absolutely breaking down and sobbing seems easier than softly crying. My point is subtle acting is harder
Crying is just laughter without Visine artificial tear drops.
True subtle crying is amazing
Idk, I'm really bad at acting angry tbh, that's probably the hardest for me unless I'm genuinely upset.
@@tyegordon i feel like for a lot of actors acting angry is basically making your eyes and veins pop out and screaming so hard spit flies out of your mouth. Some do anger better than others..Al Pacino isn't the best at it imo.
True! That and just acting normal. In my experience you can act angry pretty easily, everyone knows what it’s like to be angry and feel angry, it’s an easy emotion to recall and emulate. But just acting normal? I just straight up forget every normal human interaction I’ve ever had. You don’t remember what it’s like to feel mundane emotions because they just don’t stand out.
The best acting performance I’ve ever seen was by this kid on Vine. I can’t remember who he was, but he really made me FEEL like the road worked ahead.
He sure hoped it did, anyway.
Man, I wonder where that kid is now.... He must be doing amazing things!
@@emmahansen4858 well, he moved on to invent youtube! Crazy right?
the candid fear and suspense of whether or not the road did indeed work was portrayed flawlessly
Harley 💙💚 crazy how big youtube is even though he’s the only one uploading
One example of physical acting I love is Taraji P Henson in Hidden Figures when she physically looks so confident while she’s in the zone focusing on her work and the other people working react like “why she’s walking around like she belongs here?” And once she sees them her whole body shrinks into itself. No one says anything but it tells a story and it crushed me
she's so good in that movie !!!
I checked the scene after reading and…
AGREE ! 💯
I loved this movie when it came out, I haven’t watched it since💕
How... Are you going to talk about acting and Breaking Bad and not even mention Anna Gunn as Skylar?? That performance has stayed with me for years
Seriously man, that woman is just in another level, she kills it in every scene.
Her acting in Crawl Space and Ozymandias especially is incredible. Her reactions and delivery make the scenes 1000x more intense imo.
Shame she never got the actual respect she deserves for the performance. Yea she did from award shows, but all she got from fans howecer was hate. Imagine delivering a hell of a performance and fans of the show can't stand you.
@@bratprica6383 The original comment alone along with the number of likes (and many similar comments in Breaking Bad clips) to begin with shows that a lot of people do praise her for the phenomenal acting now though. Hell, I’m pretty sure that more people support Skyler than Walt now.
Maybe the most underrated actor in the show. Truly a phenomenal performance which is made clear by how much people hate her
I remember reading somewhere that while American Psycho was in production, Christian Bale spoke in an American accent the whole time off set, in interviews, etc. which I think is a good example of (sort of) method acting that is probably more helpful and doesn’t cross a line.
I’ve heard stories about this. He’ll do different accents in his real life depending on the film. Even when he had his infamous rant for Terminator: Salvation, he stayed in the American accent. It’s super fascinating to me.
Daniel Day Lewis does the same. He stays in character the whole time he's off camera. He's won three Oscars.
nicole bryant in doctor who did the same. she was british, but she was hired because the producers though she was american (they had seen her in a play as an american), so in her contract she was required to keep the american accent at all times
not about accents, but jon bernthal who plays the punisher, said he got ‘into character’ atleast hours, to sometimes, a couple of days before he was actually on set at all
I saw this too, I actually only heard his natural accent a few days ago, I've only ever seen him in American psycho and the dark knight trilogy, had no idea he wasn't american
Fun Fact!
Since Christian Bale is a method actor, he actually killed 20 people to prepare for his role as Patrick Bateman
Then how was he able to play Batman?
Man I wish I knew what to say here.
@@CG-fg5pr He put multiple people into a coma in the snow
@@CG-fg5pr he travelled back in time to kill his parents in front of his younger kid self
@@evermorestaytrue5272 he already had experience killing so Batman was a breeze.
I went to school for theatre. My acting professor, technical theatre professor, and the head of the theatre department all said DO NOT DO METHOD ACTING. It can literally kill an actor because they get so invested that they lose themselves and when the show/movie/play is over…they don’t know how to find themselves again.
The staff there must not understand the method very well.
@@servehonorablyi agree
There are a lot of great actors who aren’t method actors
Tame example, Austin Butler, who played Elvis in the Elvis movie. His normal accent was completely overwritten by the stereotypical Elvis accent, so much so it took him months of effort to get it back to his own
I don't think your professor understood Stanislawskys method but ok.
Loved the Hayden praise you gave. His physical acting is outstanding. But on his defence, his 'robotic' line delivery was deliberate. He was supposed to sound flat, because that's how Vader spoke. But yeah, Bryan Cranston's acting in Breaking Bad, has to be some of the greatest acting ever put to screen.
Didn't George go on to say Hayden played Anakin perfectly?
@@revolverjesus98 because he did, it does represent George's vision and this is what people fail to realise whether they like the prequels or not.
Episode II Anakin especially makes me so perfectly uncomfortable rewatching as an adult. Appreciating it much more now than as a teen
about method acting: jared leto's behaviour to "prepare" for his role as the joker is just the epitome of all the problems with method acting these days. i appreciate method acting, but hollywood has completely ruined it and turned this style of acting into a marketing gimmick. like, if an actor says they had to do insane things to prepare for the role, the movie will be branded as a must-see and an amazing work of art.
I have a theory about this and it's basically that actors are trying to justify their insanely high salary by showing us (or themselves) that they deserve it since they psychologically torture themselves for a 10 minutes part in a movie. I don't think it's the whole thing but I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of it.
@@kendrasp "Bordering"? You think sending used condoms to a coworker is "BORDERING" sexual harassment?
Let's not sugar coat this, pal! It IS sexual harassment!
I agree with you and everyone commenting here
Didn't Heath Ledger also do method acting? Makes me think that Jared Leto was just trying to do the same thing hoping for a good outcome.
@@sydnerxx heath locked himself in a hotel room and wrote insane journals to get in the headspace Jared was a s*x pest and conveniently blamed his role 😬
Holding back tears is substantially more impressive than crying. Some people can cry without having to invoke emotion but to have some emotion trying to burst forward but having to subdue it is not only difficult but also relatable
This is a common acting tip! You're spot on
Cry about it
Relatable??? You mean acting??
@@WinterGamesYT no I mean like we’ve all been in a situation where we had to hold back tears
Am I now thinking of Emma Thompson in Love Actually? Absolutely.
That Mark Hamill clip at 6:15 was such a great addition to this already awesome video. I think non-actors don't realize how bad actors can look as a result of bad non-acting surrounding them. It's like talented athletes with bad coaches or something.
Drew really changed the thumbnail and thought we wouldn’t notice
looks like I’ll be tweeting more often 😎
please no I can only make so many videos 😩
yes sir
how is this not like hella popular also hey there mayor nice to see you here :)
update: it has indeed become popular
woah i feel like i’m at a secret party
don’t listen to him, kurtis !! MORE TASTY CONTENT PLZ
I will literally die on the hill that Robert Pattinson was good in Twilight, he's an anti-social, sexually repressed, 100 year old with a 17 year old brain honestly he nailed it
yeah both him and kristin stewart played their characters perfectly (imo), it was just a shitty movie lmfao. also if u view it as a comedy, it immediately becomes much higher quality
I agree. The movie itself was just horribly written and directed. When good actors give horrible performances that’s usually the case. They actually are doing their jobs well, it’s just the material is so shit it makes everything bad.
@@ssharkbait the first movie is genuinely good tho Catherine Hardwicke did an incredible job given the source material (however, I can not say the same about the sequels ). And to quote Robert “it’s not even cool to be a hater anymore, that’s so 2010.”
YES! he did edward spot on.
@@bellatohill8213 catherine hardwicke is such an underrated director
My spin on this is the following:
I played a lot of psychopaths and over the top killers, but in my opinion what I always fail at is playing normal people in everyday life. To me acting naturally is much harder than acting in an outrageous fashion.
that's how i am also
that's not just you. in general being more natural and realistic is hard. i think the actual concept of acting is what gets in the way. people feel like they need to play something instead of focusing on emotion. subtlety is super hard.
Danny Pudi is one of my favorite actors currently because he really embodies every character he plays, like you genuinely can believe that the characters he plays are fully realized people, even if the writing is weird or stiff, he puts /something/ into every performance that just brings the character to life. I think his talent is especially shown in his role as Abed- like there are points where he has to Act like he’s Acting while staying in character as the character he’s acting, and he pulls it off. He’s incredible at facial expressions and subtle physical acting (if you watch him as Brad vs Abed his mannerisms are entirely different it’s actually kind of scary, there have been times where my brain genuinely couldn’t reconcile that the two characters were played by the same person.)
I’ve seen him in some truly awful movies, where the writing is weird and the directing is weird, and even then he manages to make the character come to life.
I could go on about it forever tbh, Danny Pudi is an incredible actor and deserves more recognition.
THIS!! he is so good at body language and mannerisms, it's like a masterclass on how to really emboy a character
Yes and he can do so many amazing voices and impressions
He's just so good at embodying a nerdy boy scout duck
This comment is streets ahead!
Was gonna watch Succession after this video, but now I'm pulling up Community, one of my fave shows. Thank you
Benedict Cumberbatch did method acting during filming for Power of the Dog, and he was playing a really awful person. Y'know what he did? He stayed away from the crew and other actors while not filming! He didn't say terrible things or send people used condoms. He just acted like an asshole by not speaking to anyone. That's how you do method acting- it doesn't hurt anyone or make people feel unsafe, it just helps you hold onto your character.
yeah jared leto is honestly just way too full of himself. if you watch interviews and just see how he talks and acts... seems like a person that would think he's owed an applause for taking a good shit or smth. he probably thought he was doing something amazing with his deranged "method acting"
Boring ass movie
I'm not familiar with the movie and when i read the first sentence i thought this was going to be a joke comment about him acting like a dog for months
And he didn't shower for a while.
And to Drew’s Jack Nicholson point, he did not stay in character 24/7. When the cameras stopped he was himself. When they were on he was Jack Torrance. To me that’s more impressive than staying in character all the time. The fact he was able to just turn it on while acting was true talent.
the Jared Leto stuff always weirded me out. Like if he wasn’t “method acting” someone could have pressed charges for harassment. Also how does sending people things in the mail help your acting???
What makes it even more cringey is that he was doing things the Joker would never do. "My Joker isn't like the other Jokers! My Joker sends his used condoms to people!" Wow, great take on the character, dude. Exactly what he was missing: Pathetic degenerate incel vibes.
Also that's not even what "method acting" is. People like to throw around the term but don't even know what it means. Method acting has nothing to do with "becoming" a character
At least everyone on Earth hated his performance, he was cut down to less than 5 minutes of screen time, and he wasn't invited back for the sequel. His co-stars undoubtedly got the last laugh
@@AdamQuigley i think the cringiest part is that recently he had the audacity to claim those are fake rumors and he didn't do anything creepy. such a coward scumbag
@@AdamQuigley the joker has killed countless of kids,raped atleast more than once and is honestly not a character that could be redeemed through any normal methods,so I mean the joker is worst than a pathetic degenerate incel,Jared Leto just didn't know what he was doing
I also think that a form of acting that was not mention is voice acting, which I believe is very underappreciated as you can not see the actors. There's points where the way an actor voiced a line was so well acted that I've been brought to tears.
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Gary Oldman is the epitome of good acting, even when he goes "overboard" it's never overboard. Even if it's not always realistic it makes sense. What matters in acting is believability. Not realism or "Look at how emotional I am!!" If you believe them, it's working.
I know. i love how Tom Felton thought that Gary was one of the cleaning crew at the set of Harry Potter
One of my favourite actors of all time. Dude's a freaking chameleon.
Danny, you can stop the acting. Your Drew impression is spot on, we get it.
I was a boy. They were two girls. Can I make it any more obvious? I am CZcams's ALPHA MALE. Acknowledge it, dear matt
@@AxxLAfriku no i am more epic
@@AxxLAfriku k.
@@AxxLAfriku thank god your types are dying out
Drew is actually a professional basketball player, he’s just acting like a goofy youtuber. i mean, did he really think anyone would believe there are TWO drew gooden’s?
yeah drew stop lying we all know that you're a 6'10" power forward with the Washington Wizards
He retired in 2016 to focus on YT actually
we all know he won those 40 championships in a row on every nba team without missing a shot
Nah, he's that world renowned Kids Bop star!
He looks like a young pau gasol.Look up rookie pau gasol,practically identical.
weird time to upload a new thumbnail over a year after this was uploaded
I came to the same conclusion when researching good acting, most people tend to give credits to loud screaming and crying, which even isn’t that hard if you got practice and talent. Some subtle stuff is way more effective than being loud.
A great example is Christina Yang in Grey's Anatomy. Shonda Rhimes wrote entire scenes where she had very little dialogue and the actress who plays her, Sandra Oh, filled in the gaps with non-verbal communication and it was incredible
@@Random-sk6hm Sounds awesome, gotta Check that ! 👌
also I just wanted to say - please keeping making videos on whatever you want because your passion is what makes them enjoyable to watch regardless of the topic. it’s refreshing to not watch another commentary channel cover the same topic over and over again. great video drew!
Yes! This! The energy and jokes make it fun, it can be about anything. Even if you narrate a weird unknown tv-show front to back for the fun of it - i'd love it
this!!
ALL OF THIS MAN'S VIDEO ESSAYS ARE PHENOMENAL. Could literally put so many video essayists to shame.
yes this ^^^^
I saw the title and Breaking Bad thumbnail and thought "Eh I'll skip this one and wait for the next video" but then after a few minutes I decided to check it out anyway and ended up enjoying it a lot. I don't think Drew can make EVERYTHING entertaining, definitely not everything, but there's a lot of things that don't look interesting and then end up being a good watch if you give it a few minutes to find out. Maybe this has nothing to do with this comment, but just wanted to share!
Only real ones remember the Breaking Bad thumbnail 🗿
Yup.
Succession is honestly the best show I've seen in the last 5 years. It is absolutely fantastic and the actors played their part so perfectly! I'd highly recommend it.
my favorite scene was when Kendall asked Shiv for hug, and Shiv is still talking sh*t to him, and then her reaction suddenly shifted from being sarcastic to being sad and concerned of Kendall. That was one of the best reacting acting that i’ve seen.
Fun fact, Aaron Paul has never taken a single acting class in his entire career, and I find that incredibly impressive. The way he portrays Jesse feels so real and I believe he is by far the most realistic character in Breaking Bad.
Jesse had my heart from the beginning. Aaron Pauls acting just felt so real, and Jesse as a character was fairly relatable, as someone who has never smoked/made meth (lol). He was just a guy, and nothing more.
While Walter is this genius maniac, and their various enemies are crazy/also genius druglords, Jesse is just Jesse. He was just a kid. He made mistakes and he handled them in a realistic way.
I fucking love that show so much
Same energy as how the author of the godfather adapted it into the screenplay having never written or read one in his life
And when he picked up a book on how to write screenplays and chapter one said "watch the godfather"
Its just that Jesse plays Aaron Paul
@@blckk_croww nah he didn't but nice pfp bro lol
@@blckk_croww To "be yourself" ie to act and respond like any kind of normal human being in front of a camera crew while trying to recite dialogue and, as this video points out, act like you're surprised by what the other actors are saying, is not the easy win you think it is lol
The only "critique" I have of this video is that I feel Drew should've mentioned voice acting. I think it's super underrated and the difference between a bad voice actor and a good one is night and day.
Maybe for another, more dedicated video? 👀
OMG YES! I know instantly when a character's voice is not portrayed by a professional voice actor, like something seems off.
OMG YES. Especially when he mentioned Mark Hamill, the legend of voice acting
@@alejandrovasquez8527 Exactly what I was going to say. That’s it’s own video for sure. There’s so many different elements involved and your performance has to rely on the art you’re voicing rather than your own physicality, so you have to find that balance. Needs to be its own video.
Yeah, the voice acting in The Wonder Years really made that show great. Also, he never mentioned smell the-fart acting
sebastian stan only had like a dozen of lines in the winter soldier movie, his non-verbal (especially eyes) acting goes crazy in that movie i'm obsessed
Omg yes. That's my maaaan lol. I have a winter soldier jacket with a silver reflective sleeve 😂 he was so good in the bronze too.
Good Omens is a masterclass in subtle acting choices. David Tennet and Micheal Sheen have so many moments of perfect characterization, from the way Crowley walks to the thousands of micro expressions that flash across Aziraphale’s face at any given moment. I think that it’s a wonderful example of how actors can completely transform a script and bring it to life in a beautiful way.
On a side note, Drew and Nathan Zed doing these “normal guy talks about technical aspects of media and pop culture” is very refreshing content
I’m pretty sure Nathan Zed is a massive fan of Drew as well
@@ra44erty60 I've always thought they're both fans of each other's content, you can sometimes see Drew wearing Nathan's merch
Never heard of Nathan Zed so thank you for bringing him to my attention! I love these types of videos.
Even Noel doing movie/show reviews is pretty cool :)
Yes agree!!!
It’s always “What is good acting?” and not “How is good acting?”
I’ll give you a better one. Why is good acting?
Man, let the joke die. It’s inhumane to keep it alive while it’s suffering from such an old and over used state :(
@@Devon.with.an.i funnily enough I found your channel through this comment and it’s actually really good and underrated, but are you genuinely upset because I used the joke?
Feel like breaking bad will always be a show people think of when they think of genuinely good shows, doesn't matter if that's writing, cinematography or acting. It's just all top notch.
An actor who I think is amazing in all areas of acting, is Jake Gyllenhaal. Every single movie he’s in has been absolutely amazing. Jake Gyllenhaal just displays emotions so well, it amazes me. The characters he plays are usually very unstable or insane, and the way he portrays their characters with facial expressions and line delivery makes me feel like I’m in the story.
Absolutely, and he can clearly act on the opposite side of the spectrum too. Mysterio starts off as a typical hero character, and he sells it really well.
Method acting isn’t actually staying in character the whole time. It is actually trying to actually feel the emotion the character is feeling. Hollywood is just really fucked up.
>actually
lol no..thats just acting
Im going to pretend I read that, as Im too lazy
method acting is personally going through an experience the character goes through so you know what they're feeling (ex: almost drowning, going weeks without talking to people, stealing). What you described is regular acting
The fact Drew said that scenes of men lashing out in anger are overrated and followed it with "a good reaction shot can be just as powerful or devastating as whatever they're reacting too" set to shots of women reacting to lashing-out men is a _power move._ It says so much so subtly.
oh my god you're so right. I did notice "hey that was all women, cool" but didn't make the connection to what was before it
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As I am an actor myself, your take on REACTION is true. Very hard. But if you have such good acting partners whom, even though the cameras are not on them but they chose to “act on that scene” behind the cameras just to help you have the real humans to react upon, THAT IS CALLED GENEROUS ACTORS.
This happened in The Walking Dead. Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes stayed on the set and acted on his lines behind the cameras just for Norman Reedus as Daryl to help him have best close up shots.
Normal actors won’t do that because it means they have to work harder, longer for nothing (because they are not in the shots). So the actors on set need to act with the cardboard (of the acting partner) or the AD who just read the lines to you.
Drew, as a trained Actor. You are absolutely nailing everything that someone would learn in a BFA program. Well done 👏
"Free Churro" of Bojack Horseman is an incredible example of powerful voice acting as well as incredible writing
YES.
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Omgg yess! That is my favourite bojack episode, the writing was spectacular too- just one monologue and still every scond of the episode was interesting.
I need to rewatch Bojack Horseman. Such a good show.
And the twist at the end just knocks it out of the fucking park
as someone who is currently in school for acting, this felt like a lecture. great job drew!
School? SCHOOL?!
Life is your school
Pain is your teacher!
_... I'd like to thank the academy for being so easily convinced of talent coming from social fads...."_
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 what 💀
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 whatever you're on, i want it
what is that like? i'm curious
I'd love to pursue a career in acting some day. You're in school for it, so I'm wondering what that process is like?
why did the thumbnail change 😮😮
Yeah, man replaced Walt and Jessie w/the shining 😭
6:25 i’ve watched this video over a dozen times but still, my autistic ass is always just like, “yeah haha that’s really weird, robotic dialogue haha, so unnatural, i definitely don’t talk like that and would be thrown off if somebody else did”
Christian Bale is often talked about for his physical changes in different movies but people overlook his acting skills, specially his accents, his American accent in American Psycho is very different to his American accent in the Machinist and to his American accent in Batman Begins as well, it just proves how versatile he really is
Versatile? In every role he's just an actor playing a part and reading a script...
@@juggmkj It's how he does it everytime genius, you can make the most interesting job sound boring if you take it that way.
He's no Kevin though
@@arvind6821 Which Kevin?
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I actually just started Succession last week so this was a treat to see and I wholeheartedly agree. When Tom swallowed his own load, I thought "Damn, that guy is really acting like how someone who swallowed their own load would"
I love you man
When he w h a t?
@@SwizzleDrizzl it's exactly what he meant. i _almost_ watched that episode with my mom.
Bro you’re my favorite
I've never seen succession and I'm deeply concerned
I just want to say that whether is was intentional or not, the roboticness of Anikin perfectly represents his character. His whole thing is that he can't fully express himself.
i always love watching the background characters in everything but especially theatre, if you just watch the ensemble during a play they’re always acting because you can always see them which i feel like relates to what you were saying about succession and acting with your body. the background characters in any play have to be acting all the time and they usually aren’t talking so they have to use their body’s. anyways, there’s my theatre kid rant
This is so true. My sister was in a small production of Les Misérables as part of the ensemble. All of the background characters were told to improvise their actions while the main cast were singing/doing their thing. Long story short, her character was in the back trying to sell a head of lettuce, and a kid pretended to be interested before snatching it and running away. It was funny to watch her chase after him in shock knowing that she actually hadn't expected that to happen.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins allowed for a natural and tentative chemistry to unfold between his and Jodie Foster's characters by not interacting with her outside of each take - a simple, highly effective, and respectful way of involving your acting process off set/in real life. Meanwhile, Jared Leto sent ANIMAL CARCASES to his cast mates (just thinly veiled, gross harassment) and still gave a shit performance. Method acting isn't your free for all excuse to be a menace.
So where did you plagiarize this paragraph from bro
it wasn't really Leto's fault that his performance was shit but alright
Anyone else feel like Andrew is selling himself short for his critically acclaimed role of "Landlord"
yes
is that actually his full name lmao
@@coolcatalesha No, his actual name is Draw Good. Drew Gooden is his name in past tense. Every clip was actually recorded 40 years ago, now slowly being edited and uploaded to CZcams by the 66 year old Draw Good because Zooey Deschanel had stopped singing in every single movie and television show she's in, causing the world to stop spinning and life as we know comes to an end. Did you live under a rock?
@@vv285 Are we gonna make a movie on this or not
@@vv285 this is fucking hilarious
My favourite moments are when a character can be perfectly encapsulated in just one scene, or even one line. The first scene that comes to mind is weirdly in Men in Black, when J says "better to have loved and losses than never to have loved at all" and K just goes "try it". The line was done so perfectly and I suddenly felt like I knew everything I needed to know about him.
Drew you bastard i thought this was a new video but you just changed the thumbnail
As a professional paid actor I’m shocked at how much you know for someone that’s not trained. “Acting is reacting” is the staple line that everyone has heard, but things like “as humans we try to be okay” is something so many working actors don’t know. We as humans don’t like being vulnerable so we try not to cry. We try not to rage. But our investment has to be equal to our reaction. If you are invested and present with your scene partner then you will automatically give those reaction shots because “the body does not lie”. If you aren’t invested then you just look like surprised pikachu. The best compliment you can ever get is “I didn’t even realise you were acting”.
It was the best feeling when I cried for the first time on camera. Wasn't planned and I can't do it normally on cue. But the character could and would. So I did. That's one thing I love about my job. lol
I very much agree with that last statement some of the best acting I've seen is when I realize it's almost like I'm watching a documentary, that that person perfectly embodies the words and flow of the character. One great example is Melissa McCarthy's character in "Can you ever forgive me?"
The thing that always got me about the Leto Joker thing was that I can't really recall a time in the comics or films or anything where the Joker sent used condoms to people? Kinda just felt like something Leto was hunting for an excuse to do.
he literally just thought "well, I guess the joker is weird and fucked up, what's a fucked up thing I can do?" without even bothering to do further analysis of the character beyond "does weird things"
He definitely just used the “trying to be the insane character” as an excuse to do weird stuff
Leto probably got caught sending used condoms and used his joker role as a bad excuse. The guy gives me long haired dude who talks about feminism but will 100% spike your drink vibes.
Leto is certainly a weirdo, honestly. Aggressively so.
I think he also wanted his co-workers to actually fear him and psyche them out, so he could feel the kind of power that comes from being a villain.
Breaking Bad was the most life changing show I’ve watched. I wish I could experience it for the first time again.
I think I liked the old thumbnail better?
I agree
I really appreciate the defense of Hayden Christianson as Anakin, I was always inspired by his physical acting and how well he could portray a storm of emotions battling inside him in the Revenge of the Sith. Underrated guy.
Thats just how he normally looks. He can literally do only one face. go watch life as a house.
Hard agree. If those films could make Samuel L Jackson wooden, I seriously don't think Hayden Christensen is the problem. And he's also been really good in almost everything else I've seen him in, so clearly he's talented.
@@RobinHearts loved him in little Italy
He’s been pretty good in other things, too, depending on the movie. He was great in Shattered Glass and captured the bizarre charm of his character really well.
i'm so ready for his return in the obi-wan show so he can prove all his haters wrong
"You can't make a Tomlette with breaking some Greggs" is probably the best line in anything ever.
makes me cackle every time lmao
The way the actor delivers it is gold too. He’s so matter-of-fact about it
Love it 😂😂😂😂
his majesty the spinach
that and Greg's "if it is to be said, so it is - so it be".
Woah he changed the thumbnail
I think good acting is when you’re fully invested in a movie/show and don’t even have to think that it is good or bad acting
As someone whose arms naturally rest in t-rex position when I walk, I don’t know if I should feel validated or upset that an Emily in Paris character shares my habit
It means you're a girlboss, don't worry about it
Phillippine Leroy-Beaulieu is a great actress, emily in Paris didn’t deserve her. But even in that garbage show she played her character fantastically
i remember hearing about how when asked how she deals with roles that may be traumatic (hereditary, etc), toni collette said “well it’s just a movie” which i think is really incredible especially considering how phenomenal her acting is
how the hell can roles be traumatic? for the actor i mean
"it ony a movie"
Toni: "Well.. it ony a movie!"
@@usrnewxnew5227 sometimes directors can be real assholes abt getting the perfect shot/reaction/interaction. Shelley Duvall suffered a TON whilst filming The Shining, because Kubrick kept pushing her to play the part of the hysterical wife, and eventually it stopped being acting and started being her in actual mental distress. There have been cases of other directors like Quentin Tarantino making actors and actresses get into physically dangerous situations to get the shot, and that can also impact their mental health too. Uma Thurman was nearly killed while filming Kill Bill and had spoken at length about how dehumanized she felt during the entire filming process. it might not necessarily be a role that causes the trauma, but the degree to which people are pushed in order to meet someone elses vision that causes it.
@@maddiepatterson8668 yeah I agree with you too, that there can be some directors for whom ends justify the means, but I meant as in the role itself. I think imo parking lot's comment was maybe the better answer i think
0:45 It's just a little thing I noticed, but I really love how you edited this scene from Nightcrawler to make it look like he went from 100 to 0 in a split second. I had to go watch the actual scene again to realize it was even edited because the cut is so subtle. The way his face changes in an instant makes him feel even more terrifyingly unhinged. I wish that's how it was in the actual movie, too.
some of the best acting ive seen has been from schitts creek
annie murphy, catherine o hara, dan levy and eugene levy all have such memorable characters each with their own distinct mannerisms and the character development is also just amazing
the writing and directing of that show is really exactly what you're talking about, not to mention its one of the funniest shows ive ever watched
it deserved the emmy's sweep
I LOVE schitts creek omg "ew David!"
I think Donald Glover is such a good example of a great physical actor. Troy from Community and Earn from Atlanta seem like two entirely different people just because he carries himself so differently and distinctively in each role. Also his physical comedy in Community is some of the only physical comedy that's made me laugh out loud
danny pudi as abed is great as well! donald glover and danny pudi are seriously the stars of community. i love the show and all the characters so much, but their chemistry is so impressive and enjoyable to watch.
There are incredible physical performances from every main cast member of Community, but you're right, Donald Glover still stands out.
Not to mention Chevy Chase has been an unlikeable ass since the 70s, so in a way he was kinda method acting for the role of Pierce Hawthorne for decades
You should see his standup special, Weirdo. Someone else said it, but he moves like a Pixar character
i never thought of myself as a fan of physical comedy but the "my whole body is crying" scene with troy (donald glover) after they chloroform the janitor will always make me laugh
Another aspect of good acting to me, that Drew only marginally touched on in this video, is making people hate you. Just think of Joffrey Baratheon from GOT and how much hype was generated on the internet at them time, just around people hating this character. Jack Gleeson played this character's arrogance, carelessness and egoism, but also its basis in a backround of being a spoiled but insecure mommy's boy, so well and so convincing, that literal millions of people felt the need to express their hate for this fictitious character for years and reveled in his on-screen death.
Even better/ a character you love to hate and then end up rooting for… Regina Mills aka Evil Queen on OUAT.
This is exactly how I felt about Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in Gladiator. He played that role so beautifully haha
Joffrey is still probably the most hated character in GOT despite the show's amazing villains/anti-heroes portrayed by amazing actors (Tywin, Cersei, Ramsey, Roose, the High Sparrow etc.) and it's in large part due to Jack's performance adding a certain annoying realistic aspect to an almost cartoonishly evil character.
OMG, this! I always said how much I appreciate the person playing Joffrey because everyone and I mean EVERYONE hated that kid. I was one of the few that liked him.
thanks for reminding me how insufferable the average got fan (reddit user) is
Im actually so happy that one of my favourite youtubers referenced 2 of my favourite shows: bojack horseman and breaking bad
new thumbnail?
i noticed this too
Its also interesting how those complications also focus on men and like... never women?? Whenever a woman expresses anger in acting shes "too bitchy" and "trying too hard" which is just kinda wild
Perfect example is breaking bad. People defend Walter white continually, but hate Skyler because she’s “too controlling and bitchy”. LIKE HER HUSBAND IS A METH DEALER AND MURDERER
A lot of people say Shelley Duvall's performance in the Shining is horrible, but imo is hands down an amazing performance (and was better than Jack's). While a lot of the performances in these compilations are fantastic, the people (let's be real, dudebros) making them are very clearly a specific kind of person, who I'd rather not be around. They seem to idolize these usually violent characters, rather than acknowledge the talent of the actors and the other actors that are supporting them in the scene. Vince Gilligan himself said the reason why Skylar White is hated in Breaking Bad is because the fans are misogynistic.
@@elliotbaker5416 oh yeah I hated Skyler in the later seasons
I think the woman who played skyler in breaking bad did a fantastic job. Any person who can cause such an emotion from the audience is fantastic. All the woman in the series were fantastic.
I mean Julia Garner’s end-of-her-rope yelling in Ozark in the new season was masterful. The build-up as she’s tossed among people who have betrayed her, used her, and mistreated her repeatedly and as she’s never shy with her anger, but never really blows up, until this moment where too much was taken from her. And first big thing that happens in the public response? It’s memed to death. And I’m not against things being memed (some of the memes are pretty funny), but it says a lot that the first time I saw something about her performance after seeing it in the show was it being made into a joke. Her anger is not just being seen as her being a bitch or trying too hard. It is being treated as a joke.
My theatre teacher hated Jim Carrey’s acting because of his “stupid overacting” in his comedies like the Pet Detective movies, but that’s exactly what makes his comedy SO GOOD. He literally put ALL his energy into every bit of his goofiness that it goes above and beyond the average goofy/loud character. If there was even a hair less energy in his performances they would not be as legendary as they are.
I hate that man but yeah. Incredible at his job
You should show your teacher Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind. Carrey absolutely knocked that movie out of the park, and it’s largely a dramatic movie. Even The Truman Show gave him much more room to show his human side, rather than JUST his goofy side. It just shows how amazing his scope is as an actor.
@@gezh88 Woah, hate's a strong word
I think sometimes people mix up good vs bad with style I like vs style I don’t like. Like, you can not like Ace Ventura because, well it’s kinda stupid, and you can not like The Number 23 because, well it’s kinda stupid, but Jim Carrey always understands the assignment.
I feel like that is oneof the things that made the Truman show so good. Because Jim Carrey is known for being so over the top, seeing him just slowly devolve and have a mental break is just astounding
7:11 Yeah, I also went back and rewatched them, and the entirety of the 3 original Spiderman movies makes SO much more sense if, at any time someone is talking to Peter, you imagine there's a cymbal monkey hammering away inside his head. He acts like he genuinely doesn't understand how human interactions are supposed to work. And you know what? It fits perfectly with the script he's given.
I had also completely forgotten just how much J.K. Simmons absolutely just highway robbery's every scene he's in. The way he delivers his snappy comebacks were Oscar worthy
As an actor myself, I feel lie one of the most important things in acting is the non-verbal acting. Some of the most spectacular acting i've ever seen have no dialogue whatsoever. Dialogue isn't always necessary for carrying the story of a scene.
Absolutely! As someone who loves movies and everything, I think one quality of a good actor is nonverbal acting (like just being able to tell how they’re feeling from their expression).
Another thing that bothers me about Jared Leto’s performance is that he is just trying to act as insane as possible. Look at Heath Ledger’s Joker - that performance is not good because he plays an insane man. There’s so many layers to the character. He visibly gets annoyed when people call him crazy. He’s shows emotions of pure joy while he’s enacting his plans. He plays the character like he is the only sane man in the room. There’s really just a wealth of really cool things he does beyond screaming and being a fucking maniac.
"He plays the character like he is the only sane man in the room." < That right there sums up the character Heath was playing. Such a good description.
And let's give part of that credit to the director Christopher Nolan! His characters are nuanced and that is part of what leads the actors' performance.
When the cameras were off Heath Ledger was a normal man. Because, ya know, he's a good actor. All the stories that make people decide to method to act as villains usually stem from this deeply false rumor that he went ~crazy~ (and its always used in an ableist way where oh mentally ill people are scary) during filming and became the joker when. by the account of every person who worked with him on that movie thats not what happened. They're all trying to capture that performance but they're not understanding how it came to be or why it actually worked. it wasn't because he started sending animals in the mail guys.
Not to undermine Ledger's peformace, but his character was also written like that. What did Suicide Squad have in terms of character writing, besides stereotypical but still bland cookie-cutter villans? Good acting is also a collaborative effort between the writing/directing and the actors themselves.
Have you seen Heath on Brokeback Mountain? It's the epitome of subtlety.
The scene in Brokeback Mountain where Anne Hathaway reacts to Ennis on the phone and realizes that he and Jack were lovers was probably one of my favorite acting moments ever. Just sublime.
@@joem13yearsago73 are you 12
@@lanac5793 I'm not sure but he is certainly giving "13 years ago"
am i insane or did this thumbnail change
you are not insane, it used to be walter and jesse in the desert in breaking bad.
No, it definitely did 😅 I haven’t watched this video in a while so that was quite a surprise
Why the fuck did my man change the thumbnail and take Walt and Jessie away, not cool
Drew is so good at making jokes but he’s also good at analysis. I love his deep dives just as much as his comedy!
Fr! These types of videos are the best!
me too! he puts them together in a really engaging way, its always funny and interesting at the same time
Completely agree. Videos are so strong on both fronts.
The “Gooden Stare" is one of Drew Gooden's most recognizable directorial techniques, a method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that the character in question is at the peak of their derangement.
I heard some Kubrick guy copied his technique, what an asshole! 🙄
One of the best acting performances I've ever seen, hands down, is Bill Hader on "Barry" (honestly, I’m surprised Drew didn’t even bring it up in the video). It's always such a visceral whiplash to realize "Oh wait. This is the same exact guy who played Stefon on SNL. What in the absolute f**k?! How can Bill Hader be so laugh-out-loud funny in one scene and then act with such a raw, terrifying anger or such a vulnerable, palpable sadness in the next?!?!” He’s just THAT talented and it’s enough to send any actor worth his salt into a jealous rage trying to figure out how he pulls off such a delicate tightrope. Somehow, he manages to keep a murderous assassin who does terrible things and murders people in order to cover up his crimes extremely sympathetic. His facial expressions are incredible and amazing, as well!
bob odenkirk in better call saul is just... amazing. i have no words for how that show made me feel
This is why I think Anya Taylor Joy’s performance in Emma is incredible.
YES. One of my favourite Austen adaptations!
Ur so right, Emma is great!
Also, The VVitch
YES Emma and Pride and Prejudice (2005) fill my heart with joy
What about The Witch, her best in my opinion.
Wasn't expecting that clip of Robert Pattinson dropping sage wisdom in this video essay but thoroughly enjoyed it
100% Agree, it's upsetting how many people don't realize he's a really good actor all because of twilight
Kristen Stewart on the other hand, is trash no matter what she's in lmao
@@ariistra195 maybe 10 years ago. I'm pretty sure everyone knows he's a phenomenal actor.
@@ariistra195 she delivered probably the best performance of last year with “Spencer”
@@djaaronix she looked awful in the trailer, but I'll watch it just to give her a chance. My expectations are extremely low from all the movies I've seen her in
This is an impressive analysis of how the creative field of filmmaking actually works. It’s the whole team, everyone has to bring quality to the creation, not just a few people.
One of my personal favorite examples that I feel does not get it’s due credit is Tatianna Maslany’s preformances in Orphan Black. The ability to make each clone feel unique in a way so that you can forget its all the same actress is actually unbelievable to watch.
and now she went and ruined it by playing She-Hulk lmao
@@jojo-xh5ik I mean, no. Tatianna’s acting is not the problem most people have with She-Hulk.
"I'm not happy with this video"
That is good acting right there
Good acting is Drew convincing us Amanda didn’t die in Afghanistan
@@diegosandokan I'm pretty sure that's Danny
@@nananakeson whats the difference
@@itterbitter707 Damnit you're right
One of the most underrated actors is Cillian Murphy. He's embodies every character he's ever played and even in bad movies like "In Time" he never lowers his skills. Watch Inception, Watching Detectives, Batman, Peacock, Peaky Blinders, 28 days later, etc. he's phenomenal in all those rolls and completely different from the last character.
There's a video of Cillian preparing for the role and he's methodically practicing the way in which one of his characters should hold themselves, how they should walk and look at other people. It's incredible and it shows in the final performance. He is an actor's actor and I have nothing bad to say about him.
Yes!! I second this. Cillian is just perfection!
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO WAS MY INTRO TO CILLIAN & HE'S BEEN A FAVE EVER SINCE.
Yes! This one scene towards the end of the last episode of season 2 of Peaky Blinders is burned into my brain because of how good he is in it. And it really came down to the way he was walking in it
Do you happen to know the name of the video?? I’m super interested in checking it out
YESSS
Agree 100% we all love a good freak out but that’s not what it takes for me to sit there and think “wow what an incredible performance”
I genuinely really enjoy watching Drew’s full video essays on shows I’ve never ever seen before.