{"id":1544435,"date":"2022-07-08T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544435"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:49:38","slug":"stranger-things-actor-considered-killing-a-cat-for-method-acting-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stranger-things-actor-considered-killing-a-cat-for-method-acting-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Actor Considered Killing A Cat For Method Acting Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstranger-things-actor-considered-killing-a-cat-for-method-acting-realism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">David Harbour<\/a> of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">Stranger Things<\/a>\u201d fame admitted that he briefly considered going to extreme lengths in the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\">method acting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d alum made the comments during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/culture\/article\/david-harbour-stranger-things-finale-interview\">GQ UK<\/a>. \u201cWhen I was younger \u2014 it\u2019s so embarrassing \u2014 but I remember playing that famous Scottish king,\u201d he told the outlet, discussing a stage production he did of \u201cMacbeth\u201d in college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd being like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna kill a cat\u2019 or something: \u2018I\u2019m gonna go murder something to know what it feels like to murder.\u2019 I didn\u2019t actually do it, obviously. Not only is that stuff silly, it\u2019s dangerous, and it actually doesn\u2019t produce good work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harbour said that Daniel Day-Lewis, who\u2019s famous for his commitment to method acting, is amazing but foreign to him. \u201cHe\u2019s an extraordinary actor who I\u2019m captivated and fascinated by,\u201d Harbour told the publication. \u201c[But] when he explains his process it sounds like nonsense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he wasn\u2019t willing to kill house pets or go to other extreme lengths for the craft, the \u201cStranger Things\u201d star did fully commit to the role of police chief Jim Hopper for the Netflix hit. Harbour lost 80 pounds, he told GQ. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was about 270 [then], and when we shot [\u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Season 4] I was around 190,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harbour made headlines last year for saying he didn\u2019t understand how anyone could disagree with socialist principles, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-widow-stranger-things-star-david-harbour-says-no-one-could-disagree-with-socialism\">reported<\/a> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that there\u2019s anyone who could disagree with socialist ideology,\u201d Harbour told The Guardian when asked about his role as Red Guardian in the superhero movie \u201cBlack Widow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIf you work at Starbucks and you make the coffee, then you should own it. You\u2019re the one making the coffee!\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The actor did admit that the ideology taken to its extreme isn\u2019t a good thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fact is that the implementation of these things has led to some of the deepest fascism in our society, so people assume that \u2018communism\u2019 means \u2018fascism\u2019 to a certain degree,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s a terrible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of a kindergarten-type society where we share things is my ideal society,\u201d Harbour said, adding, \u201cas opposed to this world where we\u2019re hunting and killing and destroying for our own personal hoarding, our own personal greed,\u201d the actor concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\u00a0David Harbour of \u201cStranger Things\u201d fame admitted that he briefly considered going to extreme lengths in the name of method acting. The 47-year-old \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d alum made the comments during a recent interview with GQ UK. \u201cWhen I was younger \u2014 it\u2019s so embarrassing \u2014 but I remember playing that famous Scottish king,\u201d he told &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1547156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}