Method acting, or ‘The Method’, was an extremely popular approach to acting during The Golden Age of Hollywood. Some of its biggest fans were Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. It is a family of techniques that centers on actors using their past experiences and emotions to produce a character’s emotional state in a scene. For instance: if an actor had to play a scene where Romeo is heartbroken over his Juliet, the actor would immerse himself in a memory of his own heart being broken so that he can portray that emotion realistically. The techniques that are used to do this are called Sense Memory and Emotional Recall.