Sentences with phrase «bearded ladies also»

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And bring them on he does: a bearded lady cabaret singer (Keala Settle), a horse - riding dwarf (Sam Humphrey), an «Irish» giant (Radu Spinghel), and also a brother - sister trapeze act with African - American roots.

They include an infamous bounty hunter who always brings his quarry in alive (Kurt Russell); his current «client,» a foul - mouthed lady gangster (Jennifer Jason Leigh); a proud and decrepit ex-Confederate general (Bruce Dern) searching for his lost son; a black Union officer who's also turned to the bounty hunting game (Samuel L. Jackson); a former rebel raider who claims to be the new sheriff at the closest town (Walton Goggins); a prissy British hangman (Tim Roth); a near - silent cow puncher (Michael Madsen); and Bob (Demián Bichir), a mysterious Mexican almost completely hidden by his coat, hat and beard.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).