Sentences with phrase «central casting»

The phrase "central casting" refers to a stereotype or an exaggeration of a specific role or character that someone fits so perfectly as if they were specifically chosen for that role in a movie or play. Full definition
I'm sure they can find parents from central casting for this purpose.
«If you want the politician from central casting, it's just not me, it's the other guy,» he said.
Outside of the seven central cast members (who have all stayed with the show from day one), the guest and supporting cast of «Scrubs» can be divided into a number of classes, which one of the Season Two DVD's bonus features mostly did.
Registered with Central Casting as an infant, 18 - month - old Gigi played Eve Curie as a baby in 1942's Madame Curie, and at two played young Fanny (who grew up to be Bette Davis) in Mrs. Skeffington.
Central Casting New York is now casting background extras to work on the new HBO TV pilot The Deuce starring James Franco.
Given his previous form, it helps that McDonnell doesn't look like he's come from central casting as your typical «lefty bogeyman».
Taylor is white, North Carolinian, basketball - loving, churchgoing — straight out of central casting for the P&G executive suite, if not exactly an improvement on the diversity front.
We described Piero in 1989: «If you call Central Casting and have them send over someone to play an Italian carmaker, you'll get a guy who looks exactly like Piero Rivolta.»
Central Casting Georgia is now casting stand - ins to work on the new Margot Robbi...
The charismatic and ever - confident giver of rousing speeches of our imagination and Hollywood central casting is nothing like the empathetic, humble, and intellectually curious reality that it really takes to inspire a team.
With my brown corduroy jacket, oxford shirt and media credential, I was dressed like I walked out of Sportswriter Central Casting.
Donald Hall, America's new poet laureate, is a bearded, sagely fellow and a trifle unkempt, just what a poet would look like if he were chosen by central casting.
Jokes about people being from central casting aside, the newly unveiled Pirro kids absolutely meet expectations.
It also helps that the kids in «The Virginity Hit» look and sound like kids, not a group of rehearsed comics from central casting brought together due to their sharp looks or conventional schlubbery.
proclaims a Russian oligarch out of central casting while staring down Jennifer Lawrence's dress in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow.
The vast central cast vie for screen time leaving fringe characters feeling completely indistinct and redundant.
It tries to pull off the Bridemaids style R rated film with an all female central cast, but it isn't as funny or as in touch with the characters as Bridesmaids.
At the bar, we meet his beer - swilling family, played with sometimes - too - broad Boston accents and personalities by Miranda Richardson as Jeff's mom and Clancy Brown as his dad, along with famous Boston comic Lenny Clarke as another relative, and others who sometimes feel straight out of Boston central casting — love the Sox, drink before noon, yell over each other, etc..
After an awkward interaction with central casting racists at a gas station, and a ridiculously unnecessary car chase, the two make it to the house only to discover that a girl Brea met at the station left her phone in her purse.
An indisputable ally of the disenfranchised, Baker honors his subjects by telling their stories honestly, without Hollywood distortion or flattering embellishment, and through a gaggle of actors mainly plucked from the area, not central casting.
Harrison Ford has spent four decades as a one - man Central Casting for the role of the tradition American hero.
The dispensing of bit parts to European central casting is plain bizarre, and even some of the Brits, visibly and uncomfortably wrong for their roles, behave like they're acting in a strained spin - off of The Archers.
These are tatted, hard - looking men; central casting material for any movie with a prison yard scene.
The object is for your warriors, magic - users, and other members of Fantasyland Central Casting to defeat the enemy squadron across the way.
In fact, it's the first Final Fantasy game not to feature female heroes in its playable central cast.
In interviews leading up to the game's release, director Hajime Tabata said the game's all - male central cast allowed them to tell a story about platonic male friendship, in which its characters care for each other and confide in one another — but, you know, in a strictly heterosexual way, dude.
Peyton seemingly comes from the leadership central casting office.
Central Casting New York is now casting background extras to work on...
This open casting call is for talents that are not currently registered with Central Casting.
Because you can only do so much to try to educate a group of travel bloggers, Dearbhaill woke us up a bit with some music from a man you would expect to get if you called Central Casting and said «Send me a convincing congenial bloke to play some Irish music).
O'Hanlon made the rounds in summer stock and burlesque, then registered with Hollywood's Central Casting as a film extra in the early»30s.
Central Casting Georgia has put an ad on Facebook looking for Argentinian locals to play extras in a scene set in 1987, presumably for a flashback sequence that would involve Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet Van Dyne:
Just to be clear, while Emanuel was long a registered Republican (he switched to independent status last spring, he told me) and Frumhoff is straight from Central Casting if you're seeking a scientist who's also a liberal Democrat, they have both long been calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.
In Nozawa - Onsen, it's about ryokans, or traditional Japanese B&B s. And the rustic Kiriya Ryokan, on one of the village's main streets, came straight out of central casting.
After you step on a nail, the bacteria that invade the sole of your foot receive a welcome from an array of proteins and white blood cells that resemble rejects from central casting for the movie Creepshow 2.
You'd think Josh came straight from central casting.
In some ways, Bill was from central casting's traditional idea of a central banker, and he acted the part.
It would have been easy to requisition a jaded - cleric type from central casting, perhaps give him a few eccentricities, and then knock off for the day.
Looks like every central casting's # 1 choice for Commander - in - Chief.
One minute he's a high - profile wine entrepreneur from central casting, referring to himself in the third person — «Wazza» did this, «Mr Randall» did that — first - name - dropping the politicians he's phoned to harangue about industry issues, drawing plans in the air of the six - star accommodation he intends to build on this huge, 167 - year - old property.
Aaron Judge Rhys Hoskins is the flavor of the month, the rookie who looks like two Mark McGwires in a trenchcoat trying to sneak into an R - rated movie, a generic slugger out of central casting, and I can respect why everyone is excited.
Mac Williamson is a strong, athletic outfielder straight out of central casting, and Jarrett Parker is a high - whiff, big - power left - hander who hasn't been intimidated by the dimensions at AT&T Park, but neither of them have the statistical pedigree that a win - now team might want.
«And an even bigger story was the scuba diver coming up and holding it up, I don't know where this guy came from but he was central casting,» added Trump in his typical understated fashion.
Fittingly, some of the competitors this year looked as though they came straight from Central Casting — and, in a sense, some of them did.
Take a goalkeeper who somewhat resembles a klutzy New Jersey hoodlum from central casting.
Esther Perel looks like the New York couples therapist from Central Casting.
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