TV comedy writer par excellence Earl Pomerantz nails it for all us up-and-comers:
by Earl Pomerantz
“My mind alights on the memory of Robert O’Neill, who taught at and ran the “Actors’ Workshop” which I attended when I lived in London during the 60’s, the “Actors’ Workshop” specializing in teaching the “Stanislavski Method” acting technique.
England is not the natural terrain for “Method Acting.” That’s growing watermelons in Kansas. In contrast to the “Method’s” introspective methodology, the English acting approach is traditionally of the “outside-inside” variety. Slap on a mustache and you’re Hitler.