Joaquin Phoenix, Hilary Swank, Shia LaBeouf take acting to extremes with slaps, diets and pulled teeth
foxnews.comJoaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby took commitment to their roles to the next level on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon." The 48-year-old actor slapped the 35-year-old actress while they were shooting a heated scene after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" on the set of the upcoming historical drama.
Phoenix and Kirby, who star as Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, told Empire magazine they talked ahead of filming and decided to give each other full creative freedom when improvising physical interactions. "She said, ‘Look, whatever you feel, you can do.’ I said, ‘Same thing with you.’ She said, ‘You can slap me, you can grab me, you can pull me, you can kiss me, whatever it is,’" Phoenix recalled.
The Oscar winner continued, "We had this agreement that we were going to surprise each other and try and create moments that weren’t there, because both of us wanted to avoid the cliché of the period drama." While method acting has often resulted in rave reviews and prestigious awards, some actors occasionally take the technique to extremes – leading to offended co-stars, physical ailments and near-death experiences.
Here's a look at other actors who pushed method acting to the limit. Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman played warring exes in the 1979 divorce drama "Kramer vs.
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