Daniel Day-Lewis Says Method Acting Has Become an 'Easy Target'

Back from retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is getting candid about acting.

In a recent sit-down with “ The New York Times ,” the three-time Oscar winner said he “doesn’t like thinking of acting in terms of craft at all,” adding that by focusing too much on the process, performers get caught up in “the less important details of the work.”

“Of course, there are techniques you can learn, and I know that the Method has become an easy target these days,” he said. “I’m a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like ‘gone full Method,’ which I think is meant to imply that a person’s behaving like a lunatic in an extreme fashion.”

He continued, “Everyone tends to focus on the less important details of the work, and those details always seem to involve