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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 6814611" data-attributes="member: 55178">I've always seen immersion as something that goes hand in hand with suspension of disbelief, and as such it's more of a thing that the game being played props up and carries along, than it is a thing that the players have to actively fight for and achieve.There are different schools and practices of method acting, but by and large the horror stories that you hear are method actors who act by fully embedding themselves in the role that they are trying to play.  The stories arise from those actors not wanting distractions that could pull them out of their mental state, which is totally understandable.  There's also always the possibility that the person might just be plain old crazy.  The different aspects of this can range from insisting that people only talk to you as though you were your character, to walking around in costume 24/7, to physically torturing yourself, to adopting a drug habit.  It could also present itself as things like the crew needing to dress in costume, or not being allowed to use things like phones or walkie talkies, or needing to carry the actor around in a wheelchair because they're playing someone who's handicapped.  This could also be not breaking character for only as long as you're at work, or not breaking character from the moment you're cast till the show wraps.You also, no doubt, can see how working with certain method actors could be difficult depending  on whether they're portraying a docile, somewhat senile grandmother, or a violent, drug addicted bank robber who likes to stab things.</blockquote>

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