The way Taylor-Joy sees it, women do not have the opportunity like men do when it comes to being a Method actor. “If you’ll notice, women don’t method act because we have things to take care of, so we can’t completely lose our minds,” Taylor-Joy recently said in a viral interview with Complex News. “Performance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine,” Stewart said at the time. “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 said at the London Film Festival last year. Day-Lewis then stressed to Big Issue that Method acting is simply about “freeing yourself so you present your colleagues with a living, breathing human being they can interact with,” adding: “It’s very simple.