During a visit to the "Merv Griffin show" in 1966, Wayne was asked how the innovator of the method Lee Strasbug assessed the work of the Duke (and Gary Cooper) as "perfectly natural", ie. They "try not to act, but to be themselves". Wayne seemed grateful for the feeling, but this was not automatically made by the method.

"(T) He is, they all copy that poor man who played in the" Muti sale, "Wayne said, strangely refusing to call on Brando by name. However, he was a fan. "Everyone is copying it. This guy is great, but everyone copies it, so he looks like a method of method." Wayne added: "No one copied the cup, and of course no one was stupid enough to copy me."

Wayne's lack of the method may come from his controversial experience starring in the Hawks' Red River with the Prodigy Montgomery Clift method. After a catastrophic trip with a bear hunt with the son of Wayne and Hawks, David (during which they lost and had to break a horse), Clift wrote in a letter to a friend: "You see what happens when you turn a bunch of fascists loose in the hills?" Meanwhile, Wayne had no patience for Clift's clumsy pistols. "Christ, my child from the godfather can do so because of Christ and he is 11 years old," the Duke shouted. "You can't do it? Make it!"

Realizing that Clift has difficulty becoming a credible cowboy, stuntman Dani Sands said the Hawks took the actor aside and told him to study a stuntman (and candidate for future Academy) at every movement of Richard Farnsworth. "" Montgomery, walk behind it and watch it carefully. If he scratched his butt, you scratch your. He is a true cowboy, "as Hawks recalls." And he, from God. Harnsworth took and taught him and, damn, he made a cowboy from an actor. "

However, Wayne never warmed up to Clift and continued to love his job as an actor. That said, Harry Carrie Runior said Wayne eventually softened (just a little bit) to his former co-star, recalling, "years later, I said I thought Monti was very effective in the" Red River ", and Duke said:" He was a pain in the ass. " But he did not deny that he was effective. "

As for Brando, it is probably the best that the eccentric Starvist on "Street named Deselba", "The Water" and "The godfather" never worked with the stupidity of Wayne-I though both shared sharing Contempt for remembering their ranks ahead of time!