Babil Khan calls method acting unnecessary sacrifice: 'Gadhe ki mehnat, ghode ki nahi'

Late actor Irrfan Khan's son, aspiring actor Babil Khan has shared his opinion on method acting, a discussion which has been rekindled after Martin Freeman's recent interview.

In a recent interview, Sherlock and Black Panther actor Martin Freeman gave his opinion on method acting. Martin called it a 'narcissistic bollocks' and 'massive pain in the a**'.

Babil Khan has shared his opinion on method acting.

Now, aspiring actor and late actor Irrfan Khan's son Babil Khan has also shared his opinion on the same. He took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to show how a fan has asked him to share his views on method acting. He, too, called it unnecessary.

Babil Khan's Instagram Story.

Babil also shared snippets from Martin's appearance on the Off Menu podcast. He had called method acting “a highly impractical way of working, which is why I think it belongs more to the student and academic side than the practical ability side.”

Talking about Jim Carrey’s method acting in Miloš Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biographical drama Man on the Moon, Martin said, “For me, and I’m genuinely sure Jim Carrey is a lovely and smart person, but it was the most self-aggrandizing, selfish, narcissistic f**king bollocks I have ever seen. The idea that anything in our culture would celebrate or support it is deranged, literally deranged.”

“You need to keep grounded in reality, and that’s not to say you don’t lose yourself in the time between ‘action’ and ‘cut’, but I think the rest of it is absolute pretentious nonsense and highly amateurish. It is not professional. Get the job done, do your work,” he had added.