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I don't think you can really tell how an actor gets there by their end performance. And their behavior off screen is also unrelated. It seems like you have a hard time separating the person from the performance. Which is understandable, but something you should keep in mind when making assessments of any actor.
He certainly sounds like he's annoying to work with. Which also makes me wonder why people would put up with him. Good actors aren't rare, there of plenty of other options.
Off screen behavior can absolutely be related to the more extreme ends of method acting. Some method actors, not all, literally stay in character after the camera stops. I am being very careful to not cast my opinion on all method actors because there is a spectrum.
And I don't fully subscribe to separating art form the artist If they're alive and still being intolerable human beings, I think it is correct to incorporate that into overall valuation of their skill as an artist. The creative process is as much a part of the art as the end piece is.
You specifically said his form of method acting comes off as cringe on screen. I'm saying you can't tell a person's technique by the end result alone. You may know from other sources but not solely by what you see on screen.
Ah, well I disagree with that too. I don't care for most billboard method actors, not Joaquin Phoenix, not Jared Leto, not Hillary Swank, not even Daniel Day Lewis. Actors I am not impressed by for the amount of accolades they get are highly correlated with actors who utilize the more intense end of method acting, even before I know anything about them outside the specific role.
I've also seen where I generally like an actor but dislike a specific role when they use method acting and normally don't e.g. Charlize Theron.
But it's a personal opinion, isn't it? There's no objectively "good" actor without clear criterion for definition of "good".
There are genuinely "bad" actors. But you don't see them much outside of community collage acting classes. But there accept ions to even that.