The Michael Knowles Show - Dylan Mulvaney's Rise To WOKE Hero EXPOSED ｜ Michael Knowles

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00:00:37.940 Who is Dylan Mulvaney?

00:00:40.940 Nobody seems to have any idea who this guy is, but we see him everywhere.

00:00:46.660 This is the guy who was virtually unknown, and then he decided that he was going to become a woman.

00:00:52.360 And then 221 days later, he was interviewing the President of the United States.

00:00:57.640 Sitting there in a dress, pretending to be a woman, talking about women's issues with the supposed leader of the free world. 0.80

00:01:05.060 And this just exploded people's minds.

00:01:10.320 And there are all sorts of theories going around as to how this unknown person became such a phenomenon so quickly.

00:01:17.600 And some people think it has to do with social media, and there's just something about the social media culture that allows a figure like this to just explode out of nowhere.

00:01:25.420 People think, rightly, to some degree, that this has to do with the transgender movement. 1.00

00:01:31.340 And it's all just about the rise of transgenderism.

00:01:33.240 But everybody seems to be missing the most obvious point here.

00:01:39.640 Dylan Mulvaney is an actor.

00:01:42.620 He is an actor.

00:01:44.420 I don't mean that to say that Dylan Mulvaney is faking it or something, or that he doesn't really think that he's a woman. 0.95

00:01:50.600 That was another theory that cropped up, is that Dylan Mulvaney is just the greatest troll of all time. 0.98

00:01:54.400 And he's just revealing how ridiculous the transgender ideology is. 1.00

00:01:59.820 Because on his very first video, Dylan Mulvaney comes out and he says, 0.98

00:02:03.760 OK, I've been a woman for 10 hours, and I've already cried like three times.

00:02:07.700 Day one of being a girl, and I have already cried three times.

00:02:11.220 I wrote a scathing email that I did not send.

00:02:14.180 I ordered dresses online that I couldn't afford.

00:02:16.600 And then when someone asked me how I was, I said, I'm fine, when I wasn't fine.

00:02:21.440 So.

00:02:24.400 How'd I do, ladies? 0.93

00:02:25.780 Very good.

00:02:26.480 And he just keeps performing all of these caricatures of women that are very offensive to a lot of women, but are generally kind of funny.

00:02:33.780 So people think, well, he's just faking it.

00:02:35.620 I don't think he's just faking it.

00:02:37.760 I think Dylan Mulvaney is an actor.

00:02:41.400 And the reason that people are missing this is, one, they haven't Googled the guy.

00:02:45.360 And he is a trained actor.

00:02:46.760 He attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for Musical Theater.

00:02:50.880 He had a pretty good career working around New York.

00:02:54.880 He played one of the roles in Book of Mormon on Broadway.

00:02:58.500 That's a pretty big deal.

00:03:00.100 And then the pandemic hit.

00:03:02.800 And then the lockdowns hit.

00:03:04.680 But even before the lockdowns, apparently Dylan Mulvaney was a little bit upset at the limits that were being placed on him as an actor.

00:03:14.440 Because he still could only play male roles.

00:03:17.960 And so the reason I think that his being an actor is central here is because of modern acting theory.

00:03:27.820 This is something you wouldn't understand if you're not familiar with modern acting theory and what happened.

00:03:32.640 But modern acting theory represents a major psychological break with old forms of the theater.

00:03:42.360 And I think it actually leads people into all sorts of craziness and helps to explain what the guy is actually doing.

00:03:48.960 Modern acting theory and technique began in America in the 1930s with something called the group theater.

00:03:55.580 Lee Strasberg was probably the most famous of these acting teachers who popularized the method.

00:04:02.680 You would know Lee Strasberg from Godfather Part II.

00:04:05.500 He plays Hyman Roth. 0.52

00:04:06.320 He's the Jewish gangster. 1.00

00:04:07.400 This is the business we've chosen.

00:04:10.000 But this technique was controversial even as Lee Strasberg was developing it and teaching it.

00:04:17.440 My own teacher who knew Strasberg and worked with Strasberg, Wynn Hanman,

00:04:21.660 he referred to Lee Strasberg as a pervert and a voyeur because what he was doing on stage and in his classes

00:04:29.300 was probing so deeply into the psychology of his students and of his actors

00:04:36.620 that he would push buttons, rip off old scabs, create and play on various passions and lusts and desires

00:04:48.020 even if they were not healthy for the individual.

00:04:50.620 In the old school of acting, the classical school of acting,

00:04:54.220 actors have never been particularly respected by society. 0.76

00:04:58.340 They've often been lumped in with prostitutes and criminals. 0.66

00:05:00.960 But in the old school, at the very least, an actor could go out on stage with a costume on,

00:05:07.000 play his part and then take the costume off.

00:05:09.780 In the new school of acting, the costume is not on the outside.

00:05:14.140 That's sort of incidental to the performance.

00:05:15.900 The costume is on the inside.

00:05:17.440 The costume, the thing that demarcates the character and delineates the character

00:05:26.580 is in the actor's own psychology and, frankly, in the actor's own soul.

00:05:32.120 That you're bending your own desires such that when you are on stage,

00:05:36.180 you really are feeling the things that the character is supposed to feel.

00:05:40.000 You really are thinking the things that the character is supposed to think.

00:05:43.840 You really are desiring things that the character is supposed to desire.

00:05:47.440 And so it is much more transformative of the person.

00:05:50.740 And depending on how well you can control this sort of technique,

00:05:54.760 can really warp an individual's sense of self.

00:05:59.480 Lee Strasberg was not the only guy working on this new natural style of acting.

00:06:02.920 The other members of the group theater were people like Sanford Meisner,

00:06:06.280 Ilya Kazan, Stella Adler, Harold Klerman, Uda Hagen, lots of other people.

00:06:11.500 And what they were doing was creating an American version of what was called Stanislavski's system.

00:06:18.140 It's this Russian guy who ran the Moscow Art Theater at the end of the 19th century.

00:06:22.780 And Stanislavski rises up, not just coincidentally, I think, around the same time as Freud.

00:06:29.420 And what are both of these men working on?

00:06:31.680 What both of these men are doing are they're turning the focus when they're thinking about human behavior

00:06:40.220 away from outside forces, away from class, away from social role,

00:06:46.080 away from manners and moral order and all the rest of that in tradition.

00:06:49.440 And they're turning it in on the inner psychology.

00:06:53.360 For Freud, that would be obviously the psyche of his patients.

00:06:56.760 And for Stanislavski, this would be the inner life of the character.

00:07:00.560 So to really oversimplify it, the old kind of acting technique is much more about taking the outside

00:07:07.020 and bringing that in and having the external elements create the performance,

00:07:13.300 whereas the new acting technique is all about the inner life

00:07:16.240 and having the inner life impel all sorts of behaviors on the stage.

00:07:20.180 And it sounds kind of pie in the sky.

00:07:21.460 So to bring it down to earth, a good example of this would be Streetcar Named Desire.

00:07:25.600 If you've ever saw the movie Streetcar Named Desire, you've got one actor from the old school

00:07:30.080 and one actor from the new school.

00:07:31.720 You've got Vivian Leigh, probably the greatest actress of her age in that old classical style of acting.

00:07:37.720 And then you've got Marlon Brando, who is the greatest actor of his age,

00:07:41.700 maybe of any age, in the new naturalistic style of acting.

00:07:45.100 And when they're in scenes together, the difference is so stark.

00:07:48.460 Vivian Leigh is there.

00:07:49.900 You know, this is the woman from Gone with the Wind.

00:07:51.440 She's so theatrical and so over-the-top and so mannered in her acting.

00:07:56.720 And then you have Brando there, and he's just kind of mumbling around.

00:07:59.780 And he's just watching himself.

00:08:01.400 And he goes there, and you think of Brando in On the Waterfront.

00:08:03.980 You're my brother, Charlie.

00:08:05.340 You're sort of looking down for me.

00:08:06.400 I could have been a contender.

00:08:07.820 I could have been somebody.

00:08:08.740 And in this modern style of acting, you will often see people begin to mumble a lot more.

00:08:14.160 This is why it's kind of annoying when you watch modern shows.

00:08:16.540 Sometimes it's hard to hear what the actors are saying, because the emphasis is so on naturalism.

00:08:22.740 And one of the consequences of this new style of acting is that it can mess up people's psychology a fair bit.

00:08:30.620 A classic showbiz story of this is when Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier were doing Marathon Man.

00:08:38.620 And according to the story, Dustin Hoffman shows up to the set, and he hasn't slept in three days,

00:08:44.120 because he's been preparing for this role.

00:08:46.800 And for the role, he's got to be underslept and disheveled and all that of sorts.

00:08:50.260 And so what does he do?

00:08:51.460 He actually does that with his own body.

00:08:54.520 And he shows up, and he's complaining about this on the set.

00:08:56.640 And Laurence Olivier, who's a great example of the old school of acting, just turns to him and he says,

00:09:01.200 My boy, have you considered acting?

00:09:03.880 You don't actually have to do all of this stuff.

00:09:06.140 You can just try acting.

00:09:08.920 You can just sort of play pretend.

00:09:10.640 Another story with Dustin Hoffman, actually, was from...

00:09:13.840 I have a little bit of insight on this, because though I'm ashamed to say it,

00:09:18.060 in my wayward youth, I worked as an actor.

00:09:20.800 And I trained as an actor with one of the...

00:09:26.000 very famous teachers of this kind of new school of acting, a guy named Wynne Hanman,

00:09:30.920 who was Sanford Meisner's assistant in the 1950s, and who actually was Dustin Hoffman's teacher.

00:09:36.200 And he tells this story of he was directing a play, and Dustin Hoffman was in the play,

00:09:40.060 and he had to be cleaning a fish on stage.

00:09:43.640 And so in the old representational kind of acting, what would you do?

00:09:46.960 You just kind of pretend.

00:09:47.740 But in the new style of acting, you want everything to be real and organic.

00:09:51.040 And so it's a very tiny theater.

00:09:52.780 Dustin Hoffman's cleaning the fish.

00:09:53.900 There's bones and guts going into the audience.

00:09:56.360 You know, everyone's kind of grossed out by it.

00:09:57.920 But that's what it's all about.

00:09:58.920 It's all about this very real inner life.

00:10:01.520 You are not just approaching a role and saying,

00:10:04.420 what would this character do?

00:10:05.780 I don't know.

00:10:06.280 He'd raise his...

00:10:07.060 He'd wear a hat like this, and he'd move his arm like this.

00:10:09.480 No, you're thinking, what does this make me feel like?

00:10:11.500 What does this remind me of in my own life?

00:10:13.940 What is this wound that I'm going to pick open?

00:10:16.540 And this is why a lot of the famous method actors of the modern era have had a lot of psychological problems. 0.92

00:10:23.340 Actors have always been crazy, but actors in this new naturalistic style seem to be a lot more crazy.

00:10:28.760 Marlon Brando had all sorts of problems. 0.82

00:10:31.540 You think of people like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

00:10:33.440 You think of people like Joaquin Phoenix.

00:10:34.840 You think of people...

00:10:36.320 I don't know.

00:10:36.660 All of these kinds of modern actors who...

00:10:40.440 You think of Heath Ledger after playing the Joker.

00:10:42.480 I mean, this kind of absolute messing up of one's psyche, okay?

00:10:47.820 And this didn't arise out of nowhere.

00:10:50.460 It's not just that one day in 1897,

00:10:54.180 Sigmund Freud and Konstantin Stanislavski decided to upend the way that the West viewed itself.

00:11:00.020 This was a process that was developing in the 19th century

00:11:03.420 as all forms of art became much more personal.

00:11:07.280 You see the development of the novel begin to turn the attention away from the external circumstances

00:11:13.020 of society and in on the personality and desires and dreams of the individual.

00:11:22.380 And you see this reflected in the society broadly.

00:11:25.580 By the end of the 19th century, you're seeing a breaking down of Europe and Russia as well,

00:11:32.080 of the West, which had been formal and had formal social roles.

00:11:36.040 And if you were a man, you were going to act this way.

00:11:38.360 You can act like a man!

00:11:40.740 What's the matter with you?

00:11:41.620 And if you were a woman, you were going to act this way. 0.89

00:11:43.420 And if you were a man of a certain class, you were going to behave one way.

00:11:46.760 And if you were of a lower class, you would act another way.

00:11:48.620 You see here the rise of feminism around this time. 1.00

00:11:52.040 Also reflected in the American theater through plays like Dollhouse,

00:11:55.320 Head of Gobbler, and lots of other plays as well.

00:11:57.900 You see this, speaking of women and speaking of plays from around this time,

00:12:01.560 this new kind of acting in a very famous moment recounted by Sanford Meisner in his book,

00:12:07.480 on acting, and he's recounting a story that he was told by George Bernard Shaw,

00:12:11.040 who was a very well-known socialist playwright around this era as well.

00:12:15.300 George Bernard Shaw goes to see a play called Magda.

00:12:18.640 And in this play is one of the famous actresses of her age, Eleonora Duzza.

00:12:22.660 And in the scene, Duzza is meeting her ex-lover 25 years later.

00:12:28.540 And the ex-lover shows up and hands her a bouquet of flowers.

00:12:32.960 And as Shaw is watching this scene, Duzza blushes on stage.

00:12:40.780 This astounds Shaw.

00:12:42.180 And she didn't do it every night of the performance, but she blushed.

00:12:45.520 And this was so amazing because it shows you that this new style of acting does work.

00:12:50.840 It's not just all a bunch of pretentious gobbledygook.

00:12:52.900 It actually does push buttons in one's psyche.

00:12:56.780 You can't fake that.

00:12:57.880 It's not as though she had a makeup brush come out from the ceiling and put blush on her.

00:13:03.060 Something from within her actually made her blush.

00:13:06.260 And so what does all of this have to do with Dylan Mulvaney?

00:13:09.760 What the new style of acting has led to is far greater naturalism in the theater.

00:13:17.460 A kind of naturalism that would have been bizarre to earlier audiences.

00:13:23.160 Because earlier audiences were just less naturalistic in their behavior.

00:13:27.220 They were less casual in their behavior.

00:13:29.260 They were much, much more formal in their social structures.

00:13:32.660 As that breaks down, it's reflected in the theater.

00:13:34.940 It's reflected in all of our personal lives.

00:13:36.420 And so you see far greater naturalism.

00:13:39.860 It's what dominates today.

00:13:40.800 It's what every single actor in the world is trained in today.

00:13:43.120 It's all audiences have come to expect today.

00:13:46.460 And what that naturalism tells you and what that building of the inner life tells you,

00:13:52.680 that focus so much on the inner life of the character tells you,

00:13:56.140 is that you can play any character you want.

00:14:00.880 Anybody can be anybody that he wants to be.

00:14:05.140 You don't have to look a certain way.

00:14:07.860 You don't have to be of a certain race.

00:14:09.260 You don't have to be a certain height.

00:14:10.400 You don't have to be a certain sex.

00:14:11.800 You can just, women can play men. 1.00

00:14:13.000 Men can play women.

00:14:14.580 Black guys can play white characters. 0.90

00:14:16.940 White guys are still not allowed to play black characters. 0.56

00:14:18.880 That's owing to political correctness. 0.62

00:14:20.460 What do you mean, you people?

00:14:22.580 But you can be whatever you want.

00:14:25.060 And so, again, it's not just one aspect of art

00:14:29.140 taken out of broader social trends and psychological trends.

00:14:33.680 This is reflected everywhere.

00:14:34.860 We are told in our society, you can be whatever you want to be.

00:14:38.180 You have no obligations to anybody.

00:14:39.580 You have no limitations whatsoever.

00:14:41.600 If you are a pygmy, you can play in the NBA someday. 1.00

00:14:45.980 If you are a dunce, you can be a mathematician. 0.99

00:14:49.740 You can't, but this is the sort of thing that we tell ourselves. 1.00

00:14:52.640 If you're a man, you can be a woman. 0.99

00:14:54.400 If you're a woman, you can be a man.

00:14:55.720 And so, Dylan Mulvaney reflects in an interview with LA Magazine.

00:15:02.240 He was very upset.

00:15:03.040 He said the theater industry was incredibly gendered,

00:15:05.700 and he was only able to get male roles.

00:15:07.900 Well, that's not fair.

00:15:08.780 He can build up the inner life of any character he wants.

00:15:11.020 And maybe he even feels a little bit like a woman.

00:15:13.280 Why doesn't he get to play female roles? 1.00

00:15:16.460 In comes the COVID lockdowns.

00:15:19.900 And when the COVID lockdowns strike, Dylan Mulvaney is taken out of the Broadway theaters,

00:15:24.260 and now he is left locked up in his room with a new stage.

00:15:29.200 The stage is TikTok.

00:15:31.400 So this stage is the most intimate and open stage you can possibly have.

00:15:39.140 He can be whoever he wants to be on the stage of TikTok.

00:15:43.780 And he decides that he is going to be a woman.

00:15:45.940 And he instantly picks up 9 million followers.

00:15:48.940 He's got over 9 million followers right now.

00:15:51.640 He does this series called Days of Girlhood.

00:15:54.480 He builds a character just like any actor does.

00:15:57.080 And he ends up getting sponsorships.

00:15:59.500 He ends up now becoming this sort of social phenomenon,

00:16:03.120 so much so that he's sitting down with the president of the United States.

00:16:08.600 Why?

00:16:09.260 Because in the old school of acting and in the old school of our society,

00:16:13.640 people were expected to do the sorts of things that were prescribed for their roles.

00:16:22.480 Their roles on stage and their roles just in society.

00:16:27.580 Today, people are expected to do whatever their inner psychological state impels them to do.

00:16:35.940 According to the old school, the way to give a good performance on the stage and in life

00:16:41.180 was to fulfill one's duty according to one's external circumstances.

00:16:47.900 According to the new school, in order to perform your role correctly on stage and in life,

00:16:54.000 you have to ignore the external circumstances.

00:16:57.260 You have to ignore all of the demands of the society

00:17:00.920 and only follow what is supposedly your authentic inner psychological state,

00:17:05.560 even if that inner psychological state is utterly divorced from the physical world.

00:17:11.840 That is what is happening.

00:17:13.920 In our society, on our stages, on our TikTok,

00:17:17.560 watching this man wearing a dress sit across from Joe Biden.

00:17:21.940 What is he?

00:17:23.180 Who is Dylan Mulvaney? 0.90

00:17:24.580 Is he a troll? 0.97

00:17:27.220 Is he a transgender phenomenon? 0.97

00:17:31.580 Is he a social media phenomenon?

00:17:33.040 No.

00:17:33.400 He is the greatest actor of our generation.

00:17:36.100 He is fully inhabiting the role.

00:17:39.060 He is the natural flowering of modern acting technique,

00:17:43.440 which is the flowering of our modern view of psychology,

00:17:48.220 which is the flowering of the collapse of Western civilization at its height.

00:17:54.580 That's it.

00:17:55.840 You got it right there.

00:17:57.520 Who knows what star will appear tomorrow?

00:18:00.440 And that's it.

00:18:05.760 And it's all about the可愛

00:18:15.560 It's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, you got it right there.

00:18:16.100 You got it in, you got it in, you got it in, you got it in.

00:18:18.880 I love it in, you get it.

00:18:20.380 You got it in, you got it, you got it.

00:18:22.860 I love it in, you got it, you got it in, you got it in.

00:18:24.620 It's fun, it was fun, it was fun with charm.

00:18:26.420 I love it in a very cute way

00:18:28.280 It's fun, you got it.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 07, 2023

Dylan Mulvaney's Rise To WOKE Hero EXPOSED ｜ Michael Knowles

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