{"id":530245,"date":"2021-05-20T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530245"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:51:04","slug":"martin-freeman-rips-jim-carreys-on-set-behavior-while-filming-man-on-the-moon-pretentious-amateurish-narcissistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/martin-freeman-rips-jim-carreys-on-set-behavior-while-filming-man-on-the-moon-pretentious-amateurish-narcissistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Freeman Rips Jim Carrey\u2019s On-Set Behavior While Filming \u2018Man On The Moon\u2019: \u2018Pretentious,\u2019 \u2018Amateurish,\u2019 \u2018Narcissistic\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fmartin-freeman-rips-jim-carreys-on-set-behavior-while-filming-man-on-the-moon-pretentious-amateurish-narcissistic%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=530245&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MartinFreeman.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor Martin Freeman, who played the beloved Bilbo Baggins in \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d series, excoriated comedic actor Jim Carrey for his behavior on set while filming the acclaimed 1999 movie \u201cMan on the Moon,\u201d in which Carrey played Andy Kauffman.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on the \u201cOff Menu\u201d podcast, Freeman reacted to the documentary \u201cJim and Andy,\u201d which profiled the extreme lengths that Jim Carrey went to while filming the movie, severely alienating director Milos Foreman and other members of the cast and crew. For instance, Carrey would refuse to be called by his real name. According to Martin Freeman, this form of \u201cmethod acting\u201d is \u201ca highly impractical way of working, which is why I think it belongs more to the student and academic side than the practical ability side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, it\u2019s quite a pain when someone \u2018loses themselves,\u2019\u201d Freeman said. \u201cIt is a massive pain because it\u2019s no longer a craft and a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Freeman did not personally attack Carrey, who he referred to as a \u201clovely and smart person,\u201d he felt the extreme measures employed amounted to \u201cself-aggrandizing, selfish, narcissistic f***ing bollocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, and I\u2019m genuinely sure Jim Carrey is a lovely and smart person, but it was the most self-aggrandizing, selfish, narcissistic fucking bollocks I have ever seen,\u201d Freeman said, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/05\/martin-freeman-slams-jim-carrey-method-acting-1234639003\/\">Indiewire<\/a>. \u201cThe idea that anything in our culture would celebrate or support it is deranged, literally deranged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to keep grounded in reality, and that\u2019s not to say you don\u2019t lose yourself in the time between \u2018action\u2019 and \u2018cut\u2019, but I think the rest of it is absolute pretentious nonsense and highly amateurish. It is not professional. Get the job done, do your work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman noted that an actor has to draw the line between the part they play and the reality they inhabit and argued that it\u2019s irresponsible to keep it up method acting once the cameras stop rolling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a very lapsed catholic but if you believe in transubstantiation, then you\u2019re going somewhere along the line of \u2018I became the character,\u2019 No, you didn\u2019t, you\u2019re not supposed to become the f**king character because you\u2019re supposed to be open to stuff that happens in real life because someone at some stage is going to say \u2018Cut\u2019 and there\u2019s no point going, \u2018What does \u2018cut\u2019 mean because I\u2019m Napoleon?\u2019 Shut up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over how far an actor can and should go to get a performance has been an age-old debate in the entertainment industry, most famously illustrated when Sir Laurence Olivier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/31\/method-acting-dustin-hoffman-meryl-streep\">chastised Dustin Hoffman<\/a> while filming \u201cMarathon Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDustin Hoffman has long been known as one of method acting\u2019s most earnest exponents. A showbiz story involves his collaboration with Laurence Olivier on the 1976 film Marathon Man,\u201d reported The Guardian. \u201cUpon being asked by his co-star how a previous scene had gone, one in which Hoffmann\u2019s character had supposedly stayed up for three days, Hoffmann admitted that he too had not slept for 72 hours to achieve emotional verisimilitude. \u201cMy dear boy,\u201d replied Olivier smoothly, \u2018why don\u2019t you just try acting?\u2019 (Hoffman subsequently attributed his insomnia to excessive partying rather than artistry).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Martin Freeman, who played the beloved Bilbo Baggins in \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d series, excoriated comedic actor Jim Carrey for his behavior on set while filming the acclaimed 1999 movie \u201cMan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312507,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MartinFreeman.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Martin Freeman Rips Jim Carrey\u2019s On-Set Behavior While Filming \u2018Man On The Moon\u2019: \u2018Pretentious,\u2019 \u2018Amateurish,\u2019 \u2018Narcissistic\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MartinFreeman.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Martin Freeman Rips Jim Carrey\u2019s On-Set Behavior While Filming \u2018Man On The Moon\u2019: \u2018Pretentious,\u2019 \u2018Amateurish,\u2019 \u2018Narcissistic\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530245","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}