Mean Girls Film Tina Fey – Ms. Norburry Method acting style Analysis
Humanities
Select an actor from either the Actor’s Studio or the Neighborhood Playhouse listed below and describe the characteristics of the method acting style as evidenced in one particular scene in a film from the lists on the module or of your own choosing. You may refer to elements identified in Lee Strasberg’s Paradox of the Actor on the module (200 words).
Neighborhood Playhouse Actors: Sanford Meisner, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Tina Fey, Wil Wheaton, Sandra Bullock, David Duchovny, James Franco, Naomi Watts, Alec Baldwin, Sidney Lumet, Arthur Miller, David Mamet
Actor’s Studio Actors: Lee Strasberg, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, Judd Nelson, James Dean, Robert DeNiro, Christian Bale, Marlon Brando, Sissy Spacek
