OK, so can you actually can you explain what is traditional method acting and where it comes from?

So traditional method acting emerged in America in the 1920s and 30s based on the work of Stanislavski, who was a Russian theatre director and actor, who developed what he called a system of acting.

And the logic behind the system of acting was that it could produce reliable, coherent performances for stage actors.

And that in the process of rather than just pretending, an actor would draw upon their own experience and their own memory to put together what he would call a through line of action.

And critically for Stanislavski, the aim was never to become a different person.

Famously, he wrote something like, you can only act with one soul, which is the soul that you've got.

So the role of the actor was to have access to as many of their own memories and experiences as they possibly could have in order to organise them like beads on a string following the script that the writer had given them.

I mean, what do you think of all of this?