Daniel Day-Lewis rips into critics who think method acting is 'a cult'

There will be bad blood between Daniel Day-Lewis and critics of his method style of acting.

The three-time Oscar winner and star of the new film “ Anemone ” shot back at detractors of the technique at the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday, asserting that the naysayers are wrongheaded.

“All the recent commentary in the last few years about Method acting is invariably from people who have little or no understanding of what it actually involves,” Day-Lewis, 68, said, per Variety .

Daniel Day-Lewis said that critics of Method acting have “no understanding of what it actually involves.” Getty Images for BFI

“It’s almost as if it’s some specious science that we’re involved in, or a cult. But it’s just a way of freeing yourself so that the spontaneity, when you are working with your