Sentences with phrase «as a dramatic actor in»

KERMIT THE FROG: Well, you may be surprised to hear this, but I'm actually stretching myself quite a lot as a dramatic actor in this thing.

Not exact matches

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

The rule of faith demands that Scripture be read as a coherent dramatic narrative, the unity of which depends on its principal actor: the God who has forever known himself and who, in the history of redemption, has revealed himself to us, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Following a group of twentysomethings at a Los Angeles apartment complex as they seek stardom as actors, dancers, comedians and producers in this dramatic series.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

In 1987, Sheen starred in Stone's next project, Wall Street, and after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Major LeaguIn 1987, Sheen starred in Stone's next project, Wall Street, and after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Major Leaguin Stone's next project, Wall Street, and after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Major Leaguin the 1989 hit Major League.

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

As ever, the director has a real gift at working with actors; Richard Pryor's dramatic chops surprised viewers of Schrader's «Blue Collar» back in 1978, and Cedric the Entertainer's solid turn here should do likewise.

That same year, he was nominated for a Gemini Award as Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his role of Theo in the drama YAMASKA, a long - running, one - hour television series starring Anne Marie Cadieux and Elise Guilbaut.

After Ray, Foxx was viewed seriously as a dramatic actor, but he hasn't been given much of note to do in recent years.

The cameo performances by Helen Mirren (as a doctor), Vanessa Redgrave (a piano teacher) and Patricia Clarkson (the victim's mother), among others, reveals Mr. Penn to be a great director of actors with a mind - reading ability to discover a character's truth in the tiniest dramatic nuances.

On top of trying to be a Big, Important Film, Jones is also meant to be a showcase for McConaughey's post-Oscar relevance as a dramatic actor, and he turns in a solid but unmemorable lead performance.

Daniel Craig is having the time of his life in a role that may be his most impressive, while Channing Tatum continues to stretch himself as an actor, showing just as much ability in his dramatic tones versus his comedic.

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

It was good to see her in Lost In Translation, and hopefully there will be more roles on the way, as I'm convinced that such a great comedic performer has enormous potential as a dramatic actoin Lost In Translation, and hopefully there will be more roles on the way, as I'm convinced that such a great comedic performer has enormous potential as a dramatic actoIn Translation, and hopefully there will be more roles on the way, as I'm convinced that such a great comedic performer has enormous potential as a dramatic actor.

Youngster Liam James holds his own against some great actors as the perpetually awkward wallflower, while Steve Carell plays against type in a role that proves he may be a stronger dramatic actor than a comedian.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

It's not as if Amistad was completely shut out, either, picking up nominations in Supporting Actor (Hopkins), Original Dramatic Score (one of the few years where musicals and comedies were given a separate category), Cinematography, and Costume Design.

And the movie is a reminder that Adam Sandler, as he was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch - Drunk Love back in 2002, is a really compelling dramatic actor.

I admire Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as actors, but there were dramatic licenses taken in the film which I didn't agree with.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» seriein «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» serieIn the American West» series.

What made it even more remarkable at the time was that Kline was known almost exclusively as a dramatic actor, in films like Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill, and Cry Freedom — only people who'd seen him onstage or in The Pirates Of Penzance could have anticipated such a broadly comic turn.

It's almost as if each actor interpreted the script in a different tone; some child friendly with wonder and others monotone and dramatic.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

As an actor I like being in dramatic things but I like to try to find the humor in them, and when I'm in something that; s funny I like to make it as dramatic as possiblAs an actor I like being in dramatic things but I like to try to find the humor in them, and when I'm in something that; s funny I like to make it as dramatic as possiblas dramatic as possiblas possible.

It's easy to forget that before he became synonymous with shirtlessness, six - pack abs, groovalicious good times, partying with his bros, and keeping it mellow, Matthew McConaughey was heralded in some corners as the Paul Newman of his time, a strikingly handsome actor with serious dramatic chops.

Phillippe has established himself as a credible dramatic actor in films like Igby Goes Down and Breach, but he regresses here to the kind of sneering playboy roles he vacantly inhabited before he proved he could act.

In the past, both actors have proven to not only be great comedic actors, as Scott has starred in Step Brothers and Party Down and Robinson has had major roles in Pineapple Express and This is the End, but also talented dramatic actorIn the past, both actors have proven to not only be great comedic actors, as Scott has starred in Step Brothers and Party Down and Robinson has had major roles in Pineapple Express and This is the End, but also talented dramatic actorin Step Brothers and Party Down and Robinson has had major roles in Pineapple Express and This is the End, but also talented dramatic actorin Pineapple Express and This is the End, but also talented dramatic actors.

Though «People Places Things» is tailored to Clement's strengths as an actor with well - placed moments of deadpan humor, it also gives him a chance to flex his dramatic muscle, or at the very least, showcase a different, more mature side compared to his goofier work in «Flight of the Conchords,» «What We Do in the Shadows» and «Dinner for Schmucks.»

Under the pockets of embarrassment portion of our programming in what universe is Captain Fantastic a «comedy» (Viggo Mortensen, who gives one of the year's best dramatic performances is nominated as best comedy actor but not as best actor.

Carell, who began to shed his «gross - out - comedy - actor» tag in 2014's «Foxcatcher», continues to demonstrate his skill as one of the most exciting dramatic actors working today while Gosling is on fine, flashy & quick - fire form in his best role since «Crazy Stupid Love» and a superb supporting cast includes an always excellent Rafe Spall and «New Girl's Max Greenfield who delivers a brilliant turn as a nauseatingly hilarious mortgage broker.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

Playing a frequent - flyer junkie in «Up in the Air,» Clooney had a nomination for best dramatic actor, along with Jeff Bridges as a boozy country singer in «Crazy Heart,» Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in «A Single Man,» Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in «Invictus» and Tobey Maguire as a prisoner of war in «Brothers.»

Luhrmann... confirmed he'd found his man: «In casting Tom one had to find an actor who could credibly be (as Fitzgerald describes him) «one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven,» had five - star acting chops and in the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio, in the appropriate age grouIn casting Tom one had to find an actor who could credibly be (as Fitzgerald describes him) «one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven,» had five - star acting chops and in the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio, in the appropriate age grouin the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio, in the appropriate age grouin the appropriate age group.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.

Gary Oldman was picked best dramatic actor for his performance as Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour.»

He then cast Bateman, who was on in an earlier incarnation, signed dramatic veterans such as Fonda and the character actor Stoll and re-teamed with «Date Night» star Fey (in arguably her most dramatic part), hoping to bring her along for the career reinvention.

He dips his toes in the pools of all different genres and mediums, working as an accomplished dramatic actor and solid comedian to boot.

What is acclaimed dramatic actor Tony Leung, better known for starring in arthouse flicks such as In The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as thiin arthouse flicks such as In The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as thiIn The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as thiin a frivolous family fantasy movie such as this?

If you're like most people, you probably know James Franco best as the goofy comic actor from «Pineapple Express,» «This Is the End,» «The Interview» and the like, or the intense dramatic actor who earned an Oscar nomination for «127 Hours,» played «Spider - Man's» best friend / nemesis in Sam Raimi's movies and headlined an acclaimed James Dean TV biopic after getting his start on «Freaks and Geeks.»

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

Vaughn had done dramatic roles earlier in his career, but he became known mostly as a comedic actor from the early 2000s on, making the shift seen in this film not so shocking.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

Jamie Foxx is the rare comedian who didn't really hit it big in movies until he began appearing in dramatic roles — like his lead performance in Ray, for which he was awarded the 2004 Best Actor Oscar — and is now better known as a dramatic actor than a comedicActor Oscar — and is now better known as a dramatic actor than a comedicactor than a comedic one.

Once upon a time, in a fabled land known as «The Nineties», Neeson was an acclaimed dramatic actor.

Whether it be the superpowers of Coogler's direction or just the rare blooming of Sly's dramatic acting chops, Stallone brings his A-game in what might be his best performance as a pure actor since 1976.

In an impressive dramatic performance, Bill Hader stars as Milo, an actor who attempts suicide by slitting his wrists after the latest in a series of disastrous romantic entanglements endIn an impressive dramatic performance, Bill Hader stars as Milo, an actor who attempts suicide by slitting his wrists after the latest in a series of disastrous romantic entanglements endin a series of disastrous romantic entanglements ends.

He has a distinctive flair in his direction, using elaborate camera moves, pushing in on actors to give them dramatic close - ups as well as cutting to them.

This goofy take on NASCAR and southern culture also established John C. Reilly as a comedic force of nature, back in the era when he was known primarily as a dramatic character actor.