I'm sure a lot of misconceptions about my father's work will be cleared up by this book. After reading Strasberg's Method I feel sure that my father, 'Pop', wherever he is, would be enormously pleased. The interviews with actors are excellent in bringing, in 12 unique personal stories, this reality to light. As one interviewee observed, Who you are as a person, how good you are as an artist, and how well you do in the business seem to be completely unrelated. Joyce Carol Oates.
Women are now so much more free agents.
But that's what Marilyn Monroe was doing. Norma Jean was an actress, and played a number of characters. Her Marilyn character was one of them. But she had a more introspective and intellectual self. That is impressive, given that her interlocutors include Alan Bates, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, and Nigel Hawthorne.