Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting Jared Leto’s turn in "Suicide Squad" is the latest reminder that the technique has become more about ego and marketing than good performances. THEATLANTIC.COM Eric Mattingly shared The Atlantic 's post . Yesterday at 8:35am This is old (ish), but I agree that so called "method acting" has become more stunt than a direct pipeline to gritty human sublimity these days. - - - - Patrick McEvoy-Halston Right now it would seem perhaps more accurate to say that doing method acting means for being ridiculed as fancifully, self-glorifingly feminine. The cool guy just "acts" and is done, hardly knowing it even happened. Lizzie Nicholson not quite sure what you're saying... Lizzie Nicholson i don't see the 'feminine' side to method acting Peter Hoffman overly-emotional, flamboyant, gesturing = female Lizzie N...