{"id":37912,"date":"2018-01-09T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37912"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:53:02","slug":"method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2018\/01\/09\/method-acting","title":{"rendered":"Method acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/images\/james-franco.jpg\" title=\"James Franco (by Angela George, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license v3.0)\" alt=\"A picture of James Franco\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px\" \/>A Twitter defence of James Franco (right), who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2018\/01\/08\/why-are-ally-sheedy-and-other-women-blasting-james-franco-on-twitter\/\">accused of sexual assault<\/a> explicitly by one actress and implicitly by others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you read closely, it said it happened during filming of Palo Alto.  The movie stars Franco as a man who seduces a younger woman.  James Franco is a method actor.  Bad judgement yes, but you know how method actors immerse themselves in roles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope nobody casts this guy in any film about the Holocaust or any other atrocity. <!-- QTM hash: 59bd800ceb7dba41c11743642b5100f7e0a2040d --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter defence of James Franco (right), who has been accused of sexual assault explicitly by one actress and implicitly by others: If you read closely, it said it happened during filming of Palo&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9Ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40843,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37912\/revisions\/40843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}