The relationship of the characters is matched by the contrast in the actors' styles.
Is there another actor whose style and talent you really admire?
Something has happened to the actor's style – she's gone from "nice enough" to "best in class" in one swift manoeuvre.
Inspired by real-life tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Astaire mimicked the actor's style and appeared in blackface for the musical number, "Bojangles in Harlem".
But the Actors' Studio style would prove enormously influential in its stress on inner truths to be mined by the actor - indeed, it was a method that made a cult of the brooding actor, turning him from professional interpreter to creative genius (for good and ill).
The Actors Studio style produced more than Brando, Dean, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Rod Steiger and Lee J Cobb.
While "The Lodger," "Downhill" and "Blackmail" are all highly formalist films, Hitchcock also explored the more naturalistic, actor-centered style favored by the American studios.
The Wooster Group experience has been by far her best in the theater, she said, partly because the actors' collaborative style helped lift the stage fright she felt in other theater work.
Karim Saleh and an actor who styles himself simply "Kamel" play Ziad Jarrah and Mohamed Atta: the terrorists due to crash planes respectively into the White House and the World Trade Centre.
The Brando who became a model for the Actors Studio style, the Stanislavski Method or Elia Kazan's intensity (however you want to call it) already looks like a figure from history.
