Sentences with phrase «big starring role»

Surprisingly enough, he didn't land a big starring role right off the bat, he started off in commercials.

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Whether Alba's story is true or not, the star wasn't exactly ready for such a big screen role so soon, making her appearance all the more baffling.

Amidst allegations of abuse and decades of denials, Allen still continues to work in film, tapping big names for starring roles in his movies and still garnering support for fans and audiences.

Reese Witherspoon, one of the most prominent voices in the Time's Up movement, has a starring role on the HBO show Big Little Lies, which received record ratings, critical acclaim, and multiple awards.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

On the bigger European stage, he plays a starring role as a founding father of Jonathan Israel's «radical enlightenment.»

Convenience played a starring role among the new products launched and featured at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo in Chicago last month, along with products that promoted bigger as better and placed veggies front and center.

He still retains a tiny slice of the 17 per cent block of shares still owned by minority shareholders who are mainly Melbourne - based, but O'Hoy missed the cut and thrust of the fast - moving consumer goods industry even though he has a busy portfolio of other roles including as a director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash cricket team.

Salt often plays a starring role in pursuit of the «big things in little packages» storyline of portable cheese.

The versatile Serie A star can play in a supporting striker role but is more regularly used in a wide role and has proven a big success since moving to Naples.

With his ability to run in behind defences and offer something more direct for City, it's clear that the former Atletico Madrid star has a big role to play for Guardiola moving forward.

Even if they keep all four big stars, this new talent will wantto play and will not accept their roles with the team.

Either be completely dedicated to developing in - house, and never trade your promising young players for anything, continue to develop through the draft — or spend the majority of your effort attaining big - name star players, and spend the rest of your money supplementing them with mid-tier role players.

Simmons was a big - time recruit, and Buchholz and Joseph were four - stars, but they won't have a lot of time to ease into their roles.

Of course, returning junior wideouts Deon Cain, Hunter Renfrow, and Ray - Ray McCloud combined for 131 catches and 1,691 yards themselves; when you play 15 games and spread the ball around a lot, plenty of targets rack up reps. None of the returning targets are taller than 6» 1, so if a bigger, younger, four - star wideout like sophomore Diondre Overton or freshman Tee Higgins has a nice fall camp, there might be a role available.

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In Houston, he'd be able to join young All - Star James Harden along with rising role player Chandler Parsons and big man Omer Asik.

Replacing Wenger with the wrong man could make things much worse for the club and so this is a decision that they really need to get right and with the Prof said to have such a huge role at the club he is supposedly set to have a big say in who will replace him, and I wonder if his former star striker and club legend Thierry Henry is being groomed for the role.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to be a strong contender for the prestigious prize as well, having played a big role in his side's title success last season, with the help of fellow nominees Mesut Ozil, Iker Casillas, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos.

However Miliband is the big draw, even if his previous party role is downplayed in literature for the event: he's described as a «Twitter personality, podcast star, and former leader of the Labour party».

Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a TV news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount.

Many other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, and they include studying the role of faint galaxies during cosmic reionisation (starting just 380,000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the Universe was young, galactic winds, star formation as well as mapping the motions of stars in the early Universe.

And with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s, the big bang theory of the universe's birth assumed the starring role on the cosmological stage — providing cosmologists with one big answer and many new questions.

In low - mass clusters, feedback from the jets may play the same disruptive role as do winds and UV radiation from big stars in high - mass clusters.

This is because a significant role of such resonances in the development of neutron stars and in the synthesis of elements during early evolution stages of the Universe after the Big Bang.

«When the biggest and heaviest stars are born, we know that magnetic fields play an important role.

Kepler had played a big role in creating a census of planets orbiting some 170,000 stars.

During his film career, Adkins has been cast in mostly direct - to - DVD movies like the two Undisputed sequels, Assassination Games, Ninja, however he finally got to get a bigger role in Stallone's ensemble cast testosterone - packed movie «The Expendables 2» and star along other great action stars like Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, the all - powerful Chuck Norris, Jean - Claude Van Damme and many others.

Batman and Harley Quinn stars Kevin Conroy, of Batman: The Animated Series, as he continues his role as the Dark Knight, Melissa Rauch, of The Big Bang Theory, as she debuts as Harley Quinn, and Loren Lester, once Robin of Batman: The Animated Series, stars as Nightwing.

After playing minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood, she became a teen idol starring as the character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana in 2006.

It stars James Franco in the title role — casting that proves to be the film's biggest burden.

After starring with a pre-Clueless Alicia Silverstone in the 1994 TV movie The Cool and the Crazy, Leto was cast in his first big screen role in How to Make an American Quilt (1995).

Adding yet another meaningless B - movie role to his long list of misses, veteran action star, Bruce Willis, returns to the big screen.

Samantha Barks is the revelation here — On My Own details the depths to which she loves but is not loved and Barks (a Broadway star in her first movie role) nails it — and gives Eponine such presence throughout her time onscreen that even before her big number, we've seen into her heart.

She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance on the small screen.

He played dozens of small roles as gunmen, posse leaders and the like, and also served as stunt double for some of the biggest stars in the shoot -»em - up genre.

Despite him regularly being the support with smaller roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor that always grabbed my attention with his consistently excellent performances, while the bigger «stars» around him struggled to keep up.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

That role goes to Eugenio Derbez, Mexico's biggest star, who's allowed to speak a big chunk of his dialogue in Spanish, complete with subtitles.

Her big break in TV came in 2009, with a starring role in the high school drama Glee.

Her contribution to this project — a deft and humorous lead role as Margie Chizek, a Midwestern immigrant to Hollywood with big - star dreams who undergoes a brutal and hilarious metamorphosis in the face of Tinseltown romance — drew hearty praise from even those critics who responded negatively to the film itself.

In the meantime, Cooper would nab starring roles in more and more films, like the thriller Limitless and the big screen adaptation of The A-Team.

Starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Northam won both critical praise and the distinction of being that year's thinking woman's luxury import.The following year, the actor played a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and then went on to explore completely different territory with a turn as Mira Sorvino's husband in the big - budget giant cockroach thriller Mimic.

Formulaic films are released every week, but it's rare that one has a $ 100 million budget, big stars whose roles are embarrassing to watch and unusual special effects that only serve to mask a predictable plot and cliche - ridden scenes.

When Juno was the next big thing, everyone was ga - ga over Page, and she even got an Oscar nod for her starring role.

John Boyega, who got his big break in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens was fitting in his role as a local security guard trying to ease tensions between the citizens and the police.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

With Tron: Legacy «s Garret Hedlund in final talks to star as Kaneda, the gang leader, and Kristen Stewart offered the role of Ky Reed, a woman who is part of an underground movement to expose the government for turning orphans into living weapons (she also may possess some abilities herself), the big question now is who will play Tetsuo, the young man whose latent powers will release the powerful being known as Akira?

Smith's run of good luck at the box office ran into a few potholes after Wild Wild West bombed and The Legend of Bagger Vance fizzled, but Michael Mann gave the star's career a fresh start, handing him his biggest role to date.

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