Sanford Meisner championed a closely related version of Method acting which came to be called the Meisner technique. Meisner advocated fully immersing oneself in the moment. He taught actors to achieve spontaneity by understanding the given circumstances of the scene and through exercises he designed to help actors invest emotionally in the scene, freeing them to react honestly as the character. Meisner described acting as "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
Interesting. It seems like, in our image-conscious society, real life is "living disinegenuously under real circumstances."
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