It paints “what I believe is a distorted picture,” Sorkin said.
that details his methods, and for the reactions the story has been eliciting from people quoted in the profile. Now, fellow actors like Jessica Chastain and Aaron Sorkin, who directed Strong in, are speaking out against what they’re calling unfair characterizations of Jeremy Strong.
“I think I helped Mr. Schulman create what I believe is a distorted picture of Jeremy that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process,” Sorkin wrote in the statement. He also included the full answers to Schulman’s questions, which the writer and director answered via email. Excluded from the story is Sorkin’s take on Strong’s process. “Jeremy’s not a nut,” Sorkin wrote. “He doesn’t make people call him by his character’s name on the set.
“When Downey shot a funeral scene, Strong paced around the set weeping loudly, even though he wasn’t called that day,” Schulman wrote. “He asked for personalized props that weren’t in the script, including a family photo album. ‘It was almost swatting him away like he was an annoying gnat—I had bigger things to deal with,’ a member of the design team recalled.”
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