Sentences with phrase «character out of his role»

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Subordinate nexus, on the other hand, are groups of occasions whose character is derived exclusively from the role which they play in the structured society; hence, when and if that «level of social order» dissolves, they, too, go out of existence.

This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.

«Disinterestedness,» for example, turns out on further analysis to be more a feature of the scientist's occupational role than of his personal character.

So the fact that he confirmed his interest in the young English defender Tyrone Mings, as reported by The Mirror, is fairly out of character for the Prof.. The 21 - year old is currently playing in the Championship for Ipswich Town and his usual role is as a left back, but at 6ft 3in and with his power and pace, it is thought that he could easily make the switch to central defence, which is coincidentally the weakest part of the Arsenal squad right now.

To compensate for this, he endeavoured to find out character traits to incorporate into the role through studying archive footage - including Cameron's first conference speech as leader of the Conservatives in 2006.

Set on an alien world decimated by his people's creations, the Nightsithe, with nobody at your side and time running out to escape, you take the role of the titular character Nelo, a cybernetically enhanced badass who looks like a cross between Spawn and Dead Space «s Isaac Clarke.

Eldard, who's been more of a character actor in the films he's been in (Sleepers, Deep Impact, Ghost Ship), finally has a role that will stand out amongst those other films.

There's not a moment in the film she doesn't look and sound completely out of character for the role.

More supporting roles in Big Fat Liar and Solaris were quick to follow, and after rounding out the «American» trilogy in American Wedding, it was burger time for Cho as he played one of the titular characters (opposite Van Wilder's Kal Penn) in the 2004 comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Now, unable to break out in anything outside the series - and thus, one of the few peripheral actors still affordable in a merely supporting role - and on top of that, the character has been written into a horribly useless nice guy corner - he virtually has nothing to say.

Certainly those incorrigible old thespians Harris and Reed play the bejaysus out of their character roles; there's also a deliciously creepy perversity elegantly mustered by Phoenix.

In this comedy, Shirley MacLaine acts out a variety of roles as the leading character of seven short segments that deal with the problematic relationship between women and men.

Charley's mom walked out when he was young, and his dad is a beer - bellied slob (played by one - time Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel, here looking more like the redneck version of his rugged «Vikings» character), not a bad guy, but no role model either, getting drunk after work and using what remains of his homecoming - king charm to bring home local women (it's a part better suited to Steve Zahn, who appears later, miscast as an abusive, borderline - homeless man).

DiCaprio just manages to stay on top of his role, but Day - Lewis gives a career - topping performance of such ferocity that the character almost bursts out of the screen.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

The Keller role is the type of role that Penn excels at - one where a character internalizes all of his emotions, blocking anybody else out.

Her character has some ill - explained back story about a dead brother and apparently can't get out of bed in the morning, but when she does, there's little chemistry between her and The Rock, perhaps because their roles — and the supposed sparks — are so underwritten.

In some ways, Lucy represents the point at which both roles converge, and Johansson has the unusually difficult job here of subtly conveying her character's observations, reactions and eventual epiphanies in a mostly deadpan, flattened - out register that becomes only more subdued as the film progresses.

With each of these characters set to play such a minor role in Deadpool 2, it could be awhile before casting is announced and with Fox's out of the box thinking, there is no telling who could end up in these roles.

De Niro, Freeman, and Douglas phone in versions of characters — or, rather, shticks — they've been trotting out for years, but Kline is lively enough, his enduring charm undimmed by the cringe - worthy dialogue he's forced to deliver, and Mary Steenburgen is luminous in an underwritten role that sets her up as the shiny object that rekindles past tensions between Paddy and Billy.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

In «Fruitvale,» O'Reilly plays a character who is an amalgamation of real people so taking on the role of Chris - Ann marked her first time playing a real person, though she would go on to play director Mary Harron in «CBGB,» due out later this year.

Even those who get a few laughs out of the title character's multidirectionally insulting repartee, delivered with relish by Woody Harrelson in the title role, may wonder what's so special about the source material.

It's not clear if Key's character will have any kind of advantage in a mano - a-mano fight with an extraterrestrial race that has previously made mincemeat out of some very tough people or if his job role in the film will involve bringing some levity to the situation.

All the role of Tadek provides for the actor is the chance to commit to a nondescript Eastern European accent and give him a chance to shave his head and grow out a beard in order to disappear into a character (something he's done since the «In Living Color» days).

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.

Naomi Watts — so wonderful in better horror fare like The Ring or thrillers like Mulholland Drive and Funny Games — does the best she can here with a comparatively inferior character, but Charlie Heaton, who broke out as the protective and lovelorn older brother in last summer's Stranger Things, and Jacob Tremblay, Oscar - nominated for his role in 2015's Room, are stymied in roles that require too little in the way of nuance or are lacking in enough screen time to show real depth.

Instead, the more «out - there» character work is given to Kate McKinnon in a role so daffy that she will likely be seen as stealing the movie for a sizeable percentage of the viewing audience, as well as for Leslie Jones, who isn't as hilarious in a more earthy character, but I do think she offers more to the comedy than Ernie Hudson had been afforded in his stint as the non-scientist member of the quartet, Winston, in the first two original movies.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

His role in the film appears to be to coax the very serious character Beca, played by Anna Kendrick, out of her gloom and embrace life to the fullest.

She also has much more agency as a character than the heroines of those films, something seized upon by Hawkins, who's flat - out brilliant in the role; her innately expressive features almost rendering the subtitling of her signed conversations irrelevant.

Even so, once the sisters decide to throw a blow - out party before leaving the house, the character dynamics flip again as Maura goes uncharacteristically wild for one night while Kate plays the role of the responsible one.

As for the rest of the cast, another report has stated that Tessa Thompson, Naomi Scott and Zoe Kravitz are testing for the female lead role — a role that could turn out to be Han Solo's «wife» Sana Starros, a character originally introduced in the Marvel comics.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

In «Afterglow,» only her third role in the 1990s, Alan Rudolph has given her the sort of character she knows inside out: bemused, sad, needful, mysterious.

The writing doesn't help — the pilot script is full of silly plot short - cuts and painfully cheesy lines — but there's no getting around the fact that the new version of the character has very little appeal, and certainly won't put the memory of Richard Dean Anderson, who originated the role, out of anyone's mind.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

The third act finds a mobster eventually visiting the casino, an odd choice considering that this character seems to come out of nowhere to play a pivotal role.

Haddish's is the kind of late - career, ostensibly out - of - nowhere rise that awards - season voters often like to acknowledge with nominations and, occasionally, awards: The character actor who's spent years shining from the sidelines, until suddenly, she lands upon the perfect role and vehicle with which to showcase the range of her talents and finally reach a mainstream audience.

Even James Spader fans will come away mostly empty - handed in an under - written role as the stuffy companion, leaving us with but half a good movie, and characters we bailed out on around the time of their first copulation.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

As the film heads into awards season following a summer release, talk will presumably build about which of the women leads the film, but any such debate should be nipped in the bud: Moore and Bening are as democratic a partnership as the characters they play, each performance informing the other to an equal extent as they intricately map out their roles in the parenting game.

Slides Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris to portray Irma Vep (the character created by Musidora) in a remake of the famous series «Vampires» directed by Louis Feuillade between 1915 and 1916.

The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland, big - budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.

It helps too, of course, that moviegoers around the world have embraced the superheroes unequivocally they've met over the last decade (key to long - form, serial storytelling regardless of genre), reducing the need for long, drawn - out, character intros and giving plot, plot driven by action and spectacle, the predominant, primary role.

And you know, when I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, «My daughter idolizes that character.

Baker, cast as a Stetsoned, suit - wearing gunman at the Organization's beck and call, confirms his standing as one of the most dangerously dynamic young character players in the business; the monumental violence of the man, so disturbingly out of directorial control in his Walking Tall Savior - with - a-big-stick role, is here mesmerizingly contained by both director and actor, whose most lethal gesture is to smile.

Adam Deacon A good handful of films out this year and yet the only roles I am likely to have seen Deacon in are the two separate characters he's played on Casualty.

Known names Melissa George, Taye Diggs and Julia Stiles all go to impressive lengths but it is David Harbour (a Tony nominated actor who is mostly known on screen for small character roles) that just knocks it completely fucking out of the park.