History Main / EnforcedMethodActing

* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', the conversation with the phone operator in "Empty Spaces" is genuine. In the song, Pink discovers that his wife is [[YourCheatingHeart sleeping with another man]] after he tries to send her a collect call from the United States while on tour, only for her lover to answer the phone and immediately hang up when he realizes who it is. The band pulled this scene off by sending a collect call to someone on the production staff and instructing them to hang up after answering, then recording the resulting conversation with the operator. The operator's confused reaction ("There's a man answering...") is real. They had to do the call several times before they found one who realized what the situation was. During some tour performances (notably the 1990 Berlin performance), Roger Waters called a real operator and had them dial a stage hand who pretended to be Ms. Floyd's new lover.

** Creator/ChrisHackney, the voice actor for Dimitri, [[ActingInTheDark didn't know about]] TheReveal near the end of the first part of the game until he recorded the lines for it.
** Christian La Monte, the voice actor for Ignatz, stated that the scream in his character's B support with Raphael was genuine. According to him, Raphael's "Hey!" was played at full volume while he was waiting for directions.

* The first chapter of ''Manga/GundamSousei'', a {{Dramatization}} of the production of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', does this with the infamous '[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright Slap]]' scene by having Creator/YoshiyukiTomino punch Creator/ToruFuruya in the face after several unimpressive line reads. Twice. It's [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory unclear if anything of the sort actually happened]], but we are talking about a man who got the nickname "KillEmAll" while making cartoons [[MerchandiseDriven for a toy company]].

* Unfortunate example: Wrestling/{{Sting}}'s obvious anger as he crushes Wrestling/JeffHardy at Wrestling/{{TNA}} ''Victory Road 2011''? Real anger - Jeff was so strung out on drugs that Eric Bischoff had to come down and tell Sting to get it over with fast. Jeff can be seen trying to escape Sting's winning pinfall, and as Sting walks out, he answers a fan's "THAT WAS BULLSHIT!" with a loud (and on-camera) "I AGREE!"

* In-universe example: In ''The Wizard of Sunset Strip'', a special-effects adept conjures a ''real'' demon onto the set during the filming of a HumanSacrifice scene. The actress playing the "victim" freaks out for real, but the crew assume it's an illusion and keep on filming, only realizing she's genuinely terrified when she faints.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Yukana was never told her character (C.C.) was gonna die in the first episode. In fact, nobody knew how long their character was going to last throughout the first season, so much of their death cries were real.

* While dubbing the scene in ''Anime/SummerWars'' where Natsuki is crying over the [[spoiler:death of her Grandmother]], Creator/BrinaPalencia recalled memories of her own [[spoiler:late Grandmother]] whom she was extremely close to. Pretty much any time Natsuki is crying in the film Brina was crying in the recording booth.

* Throughout the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' series, Creator/JackBlack was known for doing all kinds of movements and basically fooling around in the recording studio. This gave Po's famous goofball, dorky nature a far more realistic take.
* ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan'': Similar to ''The Lion King'' example, during the recording of the scene where Lord Nooth is being massaged by Hognob, Creator/TomHiddleston was being massaged himself in order to make it more authentic.

* In Music/{{Prince}}'s music video "Kiss", the face Wendy Melvoin makes when the singer literally gets in her face is genuine. She was simply expecting to play the guitar on a stool while Prince danced around her.

* Rumor has it that the ring crew for June 7, 2010's RAW were only told that Wrestling/WadeBarrett would come down to the ring to interrupt John Cena vs. Wrestling/CMPunk... not that he'd then get the other "rookies" from the recently-concluded NXT show to jump and beat down John Cena, then attack Matt Striker, Wrestling/JerryLawler (prompting Michael Cole to promptly flee), the ring announcer Justin Roberts ''and'' ringside crew, and literally wreck the ringside and even tear at the ring itself.

* No one knew Wrestling/EricBischoff was coming the night he joined WWE. Similar to the John Cena example, he kept hidden in a limo. Supposedly Wrestling/BookerT, one of the few to spot Bischoff, summed it up by saying, "[[CatchPhrase Tell me I didn't just see that]]".
* Even [[Wrestling/ScottHall Hall]] and [[Wrestling/KevinNash Nash]] weren't told who the third man was at the Bash at the Beach. The two struggle to not look confused as [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]] [[FaceHeelTurn goes Hollywood]]. This is due to the fact that WCW themselves were unsure who it would be up until the day of the event as Hogan was getting cold feet at the thought of turning Heel. Rumor has it that if Hogan had backed out, Wrestling/{{Sting}} would've ended up being the Third Man instead. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen That probably would've confused Hall and Nash even more all considering.]]

* In an interview on WWE.com following the one-night return of [[spoiler:Jake "The Snake" Roberts]], he declared that as far as he knew, only Vince, Triple H, a woman in charge of the transportation and a talent executive were aware of his return and presence at the venue, which would make [[OhCrap the reactions of the commentators and]] Wrestling/TheShield this trope.
** It would make Wrestling/DeanAmbrose's reactions to [[https://youtu.be/pbszVMpAh94 having a snake draped all over him]] something else entirely.
** Even better, you can see Mike Chioda, WWE's longest tenured referee and one of the few around when Jake was still an active wrestler, totally marking out.

* That ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' [[https://youtu.be/OEkC42_5iSo episode]] that involved a drinking game? That was actually Jack Daniel's. And she REALLY did get drunk.

* In the film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcUTVxhMxcw Surviving Evidence,]]'' [[JustForFun/OneOfUs Kayla]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ILoveShinyMonkeys?feature=watch Bashe]] [[note]]Heck, she writes [[JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime Sprock!]][[/note]] who played Taylor, was actually "terrified of zombies." Her freaking out every time a zombie appeared? Not entirely an act. Additionally, the dialogue in the scene where Taylor and Erica put on a play was improvised to highlight the play's StylisticSuck.

* The earliest ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' specials were done this way -- since Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez insisted on real child voice actors, some of whom couldn't yet read, dialogue was fed to the kids line-by-line or sometimes ''word-by-word'', and the lines we hear are often spliced together from the kids reciting the words or lines back. Arguably the best example is Sally's confused speech ("All I want is what I...have coming to me! All I want is my fair share!") in ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''. This unique "sound" quickly became such an expected element of the specials that this method continued to be followed, even when mixing software and better techniques could have smoothed things over a bit.

** In the "Dying Detective" Holmes appears to be dying of poison. Of course, it turns out that he's perfectly fine and was only acting so that Watson's reactions to it (and subsequent conversation with the suspect who had tried to poison him) would be genuine enough to convince said suspect.

* In-universe examples for the animated band Music/{{Gorillaz}}: according to their biography, ''Rise of the Ogre'', the band weren't told by their [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse director Jamie Hewlett]] about the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever 300-foot elk]] that appears at the end of the "19/2000" video, so they'd look appropriately surprised. Also, the GroinAttack Murdoc suffers at the hands of the zombie ape in "Clint Eastwood" was apparently real, and caused his genitals to "swell up like big purple melons".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', it is revealed in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E19OTitanWhereArtThou O Titan where art Thou]] that Darius and Eberwolf's attack in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E7EdasRequiem Eda's Requiem]]" was an example of this, as Raine is a terrible actor (they ''do'' have stage fright), so couldn't know it was staged. Raine grumbles the scenario was similar to their days at Hexside.

* As mentioned under Film, the call to the operator in Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' is genuine. The character Pink phones his wife, knowing she's with another man, and the other line keeps disconnecting. The operator's confused reaction ("There's a man answering...") is real. They had to do the call several times before they found one who realized what the situation was. During some tour performances (notably the 1990 Berlin performance), Roger Waters called a real operator and had them dial a stage hand who pretended to be Ms. Floyd's new lover.

* An actor behaves in a way that causes the actors he's working with to react in an unplanned way. Adding racist dialogue from their {{jerkass}} character, being intentionally obnoxious off camera, [[OffTheRails going entirely off script for a rant]], or [[NakedPeopleAreFunny randomly stripping during the scene]] are all ways to get a genuine reaction if the other actors aren't expecting it. In comedies, this is sometimes done just to make sure that the other actors will [[{{Corpsing}} burst out laughing]].

** It would make Wrestling/DeanAmbrose's reactions to [[https://youtu.be/pbszVMpAh94 having a snake draped all over him]] [[{{Corpsing}} something else entirely]].

* When WebVideo/LazyPurple's ''How It FEELS to Play...'' series for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' covered [[TheAlcoholic the Demoman]], Lazy actually got drunk enough to vomit to add some authenticity to his rambling about the stickybomb launcher and enemy sentry guns. Which results in his AuthorAvatar {{facepalm}}ing and fast-forwarding through the less cogent parts of the recording, and more than a few WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties cards.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Darius and Eberwolf's attack in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E7EdasRequiem Eda's Requiem]] turns out to have been this, as Raine is a terrible actor (they ''do'' have stage fright), so couldn't know it was staged. Raine grumbles the scenario was similar to their days at Hexside.

* Even [[Wrestling/ScottHall Hall]] and [[Wrestling/KevinNash Nash]] weren't told who the third man was at the Bash at the Beach. The two struggle to not look confused as [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]] [[FaceHeelTurn goes Hollywood]].

* No one knew Wrestling/EricBischoff was coming the night he joined WWE. Similar to the John Cena example, he kept hidden in a limo. Supposedly Wrestling/BookerT, one of the few to spot Bischoff, summed it up by saying, "Tell me I didn't just see that".

* The Avatar in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' hears about how [[spoiler:Walhart will kill Basilio after he and Flavia attack the conquerer. Knowing that the Fire Emblem might be stolen by the Grimleal (namely Validar), s/he and Basilio devise a plan for Basilio to fake death to the Conqueror, and not actually tell Flavia, so her cries when catching up with Chrom are legit.]] Later on, [[spoiler:the Avatar proves correct -- the Fire Emblem ''is'' stolen, but the green gem was replaced with a fake and Basilio was not actually dead. Just as Validar (and Lucina) had thought, Grima tries to possess the Avatar... but the Avatar attacks Chrom anyways and weakens the attack so Chrom survives... but s/he does ''not'' tell Chrom ''or'' Lucina that they'll do that, so their BigNo and reactions will genuinely fool Validar. Cue Basilio walking in talking about how they fooled them all.]]

** The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' Citadel DLC features Shepard in a Blasto movie. The subsequent crisis causes Shepard to make one of his/her famous "Conversation Wheel Decisions", enforcing the acting... but not by a lot.

* Mark Metcalf was able to use the exposure he got from his ''Film/AnimalHouse'' rant to the ROTC cadets being included in the fadeout of Music/TwistedSister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" and his appearance in the video to get more pay for his subsequent appearance in the band's "I Wanna Rock" video. He showed up on set with a big ego, made even bigger by obvious cocaine consumption.\\
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This led to a confrontation with the director while shooting his scene at the beginning of the video, a confrontation the director settled by saying that if he really wanted to make his point, the two of them should step outside. Metcalf backed down, and the next take, with him still visibly agitated, is the one used in the video.

* Producer Ross Robinson is notorious for this approach. The most infamous example is Music/{{Korn}}'s song "Daddy", where singer Jonathan Davis starts crying at the end.[[note]]They would go on to record two more albums with Robinson before Jonathan decided that he's had enough of the producer.[[/note]] Then there's "Pretty Lush" by Music/{{Glassjaw}}, where you can hear him shattering the glass in the vocal booth. He also threw lit candles at Music/TheCure and insulted them for not making music as good as they used to.[[note]]Which singer Robert Smith apparently took to heart, prompting him to push himself even harder[[/note]]

** To get the proper effect for when Simba is [[RibcageRidge sliding down the back of an elephant's skeleton]], the director tapped Jonathan Taylor Thomas's back while he recorded his lines.

** When Jonathan Taylor Thomas voiced Young Simba, they tapped his back for the scene where Simba is yelling while sliding down the back of an elephant's skeleton.

* During the recording session for ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', Brad Bird shook Eli Marienthal (the voice of Hogarth) with his permission, to get his voice shaky during the scene where he rides in the makeshift car in the scrap yard.
** He also had him actually eating Twinkies during the scene where he eats them while watching the movie when he's home alone.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'', Creator/DaveFranco got emotional while recording some dialogue between Lloyd and Garmadon.

* During the feud between Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and Wrestling/ChrisJericho in 2008, tensions became increased by a single accident -- during an appearance at Wrestling/SummerSlam, Michaels appeared to make an announcement of his "retirement" with his wife, only for Jericho to show up, causing a scuffle that led to him throwing a punch at Michaels but accidentally hitting his wife, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge setting up Michaels' comeback something fierce]]. It was supposed to be a worked punch, but Rebecca Curci missed her cue and got punched in the face for real, getting a busted lip that definitely helped generate heat (and fortunately, she was a good sport about it -- backstage, she got up from her stretcher to tell him [[ActuallyPrettyFunny "Is that the best you got, Jericho?"]]).

** In "The Great Money Caper" the entire town sets up a hoax on Homer and Bart to teach them not to con people, by creating a trick where Groundskeeper Willie is apprehended and found guilty for stealing Homer's car. The only person not in on the hoax? Willie himself, presumably to make his behavior more realistic.

* Whenever a kissing scene is recorded in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' , the voice actors for the characters in that scene would kiss each other. Interestingly, Creator/ZehraFazal [[https://youtu.be/LqEKl_s5KWI mentioned]] at 5:45 how she kissed her own hand when recording [[spoiler: Halo and Harper's]] kiss since she voices both characters.

Enforced Method Acting is a cinematic concept in which the actors and actresses of a work give reactions that are unplanned and unscripted or are otherwise made to genuinely feel the emotions that they are expressing on camera. The primary difference with Method Acting is that is internal to the actor, whereas this trope is about providing reactions as compelled by someone else. This reaction is not rehearsed ahead of time, and the production uses ThrowItIn intentionally. This can take place in several ways:
* The director modifies conditions on set to accommodate the approximate mood and emotion that would be associated with the scene. The applications of this range from not telling the actor [[ActingInTheDark their love interest would leave them in the last scene]], giving them the wrong cue for when the chainsaw-wielding maniac bursts through the door or ensuring conditions would be uncomfortable for them to act (ice cold water in the dunk tank, heavy wind machines to blow sand in their face, letting them sweat in a heavy costume).
* An actor behaves in a way that causes the actors he's working with to react in an unplanned way: adding racist dialogue from their {{jerkass}} character, being intentionally obnoxious off camera, [[OffTheRails go entirely off script for a rant]], [[NakedPeopleAreFunny randomly stripping during the scene]] -- maybe just to make sure they'll [[{{Corpsing}} burst out laughing]].