The ironic thing about this trope is, the better the actor, the less it should work. Unless they've been told to react to whatever happens, the natural response is presumably to avoid deviating from the script.
AaronHong
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09:30:48 PM Jan 22nd 2011
What about Stage Moms making faces at the actors beside the camera, does it count?
dm3588
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07:26:08 PM Jun 25th 2011 edited by dm3588
In "The Silence of the Lambs", when Clarice is talking to Lecter and he starts mocking her Virginia accent, Hopkins had not told Foster he was going to do that, and her offended expression is genuine.
Brachen
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07:38:37 AM Jan 15th 2012
The examples in this article are kind of a mess with a whole lot of examples that don't even follow the trope and some that are mostly about method acting instead of being forced method acting. Also, many examples aren't really explained so that one could understand the point behind them.
"As early as the first Terminator crew members wore T-Shirts emblazoned with "You can't scare me. I work for James Cameron.""
MrDeath
07:30:56 AM Jan 16th 2012
That one is less an example and more a follow up to the examples involving him, the implication that James Cameron pulls this a lot, so his crew is used to being scared, or something along those lines.