Jamie Dornan stalking a woman is proof that method actors are the worst

Can you imagine a female actress getting away with these things in the name of art?

After sharing his experience with a stalker turning up at his home in a recent interview, actor Jamie Dornan has unintentionally dug up his own stalking past.

The own goal happened after his interview with The Independent, where he described a “f*cking scary” situation involving a ‘fan’ turning up to his house when his children were there.

As awful as that story is, it’s now re-opened the doors for another interview Jamie did with the LA Times back in 2015.

In an answer that surely made his publicist want to eat their entire hand, he admitted he once stalked a woman himself in order to prepare for his character role in serial killer drama, The Fall.

“Can we get arrested for this?” He asked the interviewer. At which point I’m sure his entire management team bolted from their seats.

“Hold on ... this is a really bad reveal: I, like, followed a woman off the train one day to see what it felt like to pursue someone like that.”

“It felt kind of exciting, in a really sort of dirty way,” he admitted. Before adding, “I’m sort of not proud of myself. But I do honestly think I learned something from it, because I’ve obviously never done any of that. It was intriguing and interesting to enter that process of ‘what are you following her for?’ and ‘what are you trying to find out?”

By his own admission he only followed her for “a couple of blocks” and while there was obviously no malice intent there, it’s enough for me to move Jamie into the ranking of actors that now give me the ick.

Don’t get me wrong, as somewhat of a visual learner myself, I can understand the appeal of certain aspects of method acting. Jeremy Allen White cosplaying as a chef in Michelin star restaurants to prepare for his role as Carmy in The Bear, makes total sense to me.

But stalking real women because you’re playing a serial killer…

And it’s always the men. In a Vanity Fair interview, fellow actor Viola Davis made a very insightful comment - “We girls don’t get to be messy” - before sharing how Jared Leto behaved on set with her during the filming of Suicide Squad.

“He did some bad things Jared Leto did. He gave some really horrific gifts. He had a henchman who would come into the rehearsal room and the henchman came in with a dead pig and plopped him on the table and then he walked out and that was our introduction to Jared Leto.”

I’ll say it for you Viola. What a prick.

It makes me rage that Jared Leto can behave like that on a set in the name of method acting, when you know how hard a woman, especially a Black woman, like Viola, has worked to get there and continues to work to stay there.

Another great Jared Leto method moment is from the movie Morbius, where he played a character who walked with crutches.

Just as seriously as he took the role of playing Joker, Jared refused to walk without his limp and aids, which meant his bathroom breaks slowed down production.

Again, just image someone like Viola Davis getting away with this.

In an interview with Uproxx, the director admitted that a deal was made with Jared in order to stop these delays.

The deal? They got him a wheelchair, so some underpaid crew member could wheel him to the loo.

What’s worse than a method actor though? A method actor/director.

Hearing the stories of how Bradley Cooper stayed in method actor mode to direct A Star is Born, is almost enough to make me never want to listen to Shallow again.

Almost.

As well as directing the film, Bradley was playing the role of Jackson Maine - a singer struggling with alcoholism. Rather than wearing two hats: the actor and director. Bradley stayed in ‘role’ even when directing.

Yes, that means directing scenes whilst still pretending to be drunk.

These Hollywood men are just the actual worst, aren’t they?

"Thank God the actors were willing to allow me to direct them sort of in that state because it was easier to stay in that space," he said. "It just took me a little longer to communicate what I wanted."

Let’s not forget that on his latest film Maestro - which sole purpose seems to be to get an Oscar nomination - Bradley banned chairs on set.

“There’s no chairs on sets; I’ve always hated chairs and I feel like your energy dips the minute you sit down in a chair.

“So apple boxes are a nice way to sit.”

God, if you’re listening, please grant Bradley Cooper the power of experiencing monthly periods.

I actually think I could write all night about how method actors are the worst.

In a 2018 interview, Meryl Streep reflected on her first ever movie, filmed in 1979: Kramer vs Kramer.

Meryl had previously never commented on the rumours that Dustin Hoffman had slapped her on set during filming, until her interview with The New York Times.

“This is tricky because when you’re an actor, you’re in a scene, you have to feel free,” Meryl said “I’m sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes. But there’s a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping”

Honestly, I wish these male actors would stop harassing women and instead take a leaf out of Gary Oldman or Benedict Cumberbatch’s book and method act their way to nicotine poisoning.

At least their stupidity is only hurting themselves that way.