Sentences with phrase «child actors making»

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

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When Bon Appétit sat down with the comedian and actor — who made you laugh on The Daily Show, Children's Hospital, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Ballers (season three on HBO now)-- he talked for 45 minutes straight about how much he loves sandwiches.

We were too happy to hear that they will also make history this week by casting TVs first transgender child actor to appear on the show.

Actor Corey Feldman, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is heading to the state Capitol on Wednesday to push state Senate Republicans to pass a bill that would make it easier for survivors in New York to seek justice as adults.

ALBANY — Actor Corey Feldman Tuesday joined the fight to enact a law in New York making it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults.

Gordon - Levitt's adult career has been so productive that it's easy to forget he is one of the rare actors to make it from child stardom.

Generally speaking, it's a more difficult task when it comes to child actors, which is what makes Andy Muschietti's It so remarkable.

In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a...

To his credit, the film's lucky young star Cameron Bright, who played a similar role in Godsend, is able to keep pace with the more experienced actors, although the deadpan delivery to try to make him believable as an adult in a child's body tends to drag the scenes down.

Child actor Jeremy Foley made his first screen appearance playing Graham Wando opposite Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton (who played his mother) in the disaster thriller Dante's Peak (1997).

Synopsis: High - strung father - to - be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.

Former child star NICHOLAS HOULT is toughening up - he is set to tackle a role in a top secret new action movie.The British actor made his name as a...

Fanning, who's made the move from child actor to more dramatic fare, is a standout, showing Peggy Carter's poise in staring down danger and the patriarchy.

The New York - born actor, who for many will always be associated with The Waltons, started his career as a child actor, making his first Broadway appearance at age seven in 1958.

Two of TV's most beloved child actors, Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family) and Barry Williams (The Brady Bunch) unite, assisted by Sherilyn Fenn (Rude Awakening, Boston Public), to make it through Bigfoot's startling appearance at a music festival in North Dakota in Bigfoot.

Hanks pulls off some of his best acting, making you honestly forget that he's an actor playing a man - child.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

«I told my mom recently,» she says, «that I thought it was cool she didn't make me become a child actor.

Oz is constantly mugging, falling down, running into things, and making funny faces, which leads me to believe that Oz might be afflicted by some toxic stew of epilepsy, Tourette's Syndrome, and limited comic actor's disease — the last of which the sort of thing that otherwise dull or homely children contract to get attention in class.

He's been appearing in stage and film productions for two - thirds of his life, making his Broadway debut at 10, but at 32, actor Paul Dano (he of «I've abandoned my child!»

Finally, «My Movie About Making Matilda by Mara Wilson» (6:27), the disc's only 1.33:1 feature, presents footage from the set shot by the young child actor back in May 1995 along with some thoughts from her at the same time.

A large part of Maschietti making his horror so much more than a Friday Night spooky story were the incredibly deep performances from the child actors.

Watching the best Natalie Portman movies is a trip back in time through the actor's lifetime, starting when she made her film debut at age 12 in the role of a child who wants to be an assassin.

Joey appears as a character in Buckley's novel, but Reitman has made Naylor's warm relationship with his son (played by ubiquitous child actor Cameron Bright) the emotional center of the movie.

In many ways, Zathura feels like a Spielberg creation, and while Favreau may not have the prodigious conception of Spielberg when it comes to making a truly magical movie, he does have a great knack for getting superb and very realistic performances from his child actors, which is something Spielberg has sometimes struggled to do.

Richard Linklater spent 11 years making Boyhood, a moving account of a Texan child's progression towards manhood, using the same young actor, Ellar Coltrane, and filming for a week or so every year.

The couple, who had gotten married in 2010 and had the first of their two children in 2011, had made a few films together, including 1992's «Jamón Jamón» — Bardem's first starring role, in which a teenaged Cruz also appeared — and Woody Allen's 2008 comedy «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» for which Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award a year after Bardem had won his own Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «No Country for Old Men.»

And if those aren't enough Wonka treats, all the child actors gather together for the first time since the making of the movie to offer a full - length audio commentary while you view the movie.

It features four «Bridesmaids» actors playing married couples with children: Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm are Missy and Ben, whose once - hot sex life is now cooling, while Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd are the bickering Leslie and Alex. Writer - director Jennifer Westfeldt (the 2001 indie hit «Kissing Jessica Stein») casts herself as Julie, and Adam Scott (NBC's «Parks and Recreation») as Jason, two lifelong buddies who decide to platonically make a child and skip the whole strained - relationship thing.

The acting is respectable across the board, with Byrne (Sunshine, The Dead Girl) and Renner (North Country, SWAT) making solid unlikely heroes, and the child actors, Muggleton and Poots, deliver well in demanding performances that require constant fear and emotional turmoil.

«The Making of Moonrise Kingdom» consists of an 18 - minute featurette shot on the set of the film plus four storyboard animatics and narrator tests, five minutes of screen tests of the child actors, and a short piece on the miniatures used in the flood sequence.

The move from child star to adult actor — and from TV to film — is notoriously tricky, which makes JGL's deft career transition in every area all the more impressive.

Tye Sheridan (from «Tree of Life» and the upcoming David Gordon Green film, «Joe,» which so far in a brief career makes him three for three in working with terrific filmmakers) and his co-star Jacob Lofland (in his film acting debut) transcend the child actor ghetto (saying they're good for being kid actors is wildly understating it).

Joseph Gordon - Levitt is a child television actor (3rd Rock from the Sun) who has made the cross over to both film and adult roles.

There's something incredibly moving about children's ability to play and make their own fun amid chaotic and tragic situations and this film nailed it, training the camera on 7 - year - old actor Brooklynn Prince and her on - screen friends as they explore and goof around while mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) does whatever she must to make rent.

Sam Rockwell and J.B. Smoove make for an intriguing comedic pair as the film's «villains,» but I have a feeling that the movie's success is going to depend on the child actors.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

He makes a few half - hearted attempts to get the kid (played without any child - actor affectations by Michael Algieri) to the police and child services, but the boy refuses to leave him, for Sam is the best adult the boy has ever met.

Clark Gregg will direct from his screenplay the noir fable about a loser agent for young actors - and washed - up child star himself - who stumbles upon a brilliant 13 - year - old prodigy (played by newcomer Saxon Sharbino) and then tries to close the mega-deal that will make her a star while managing her drunk volatile father, the poaching attempts of a more successful nemesis and a growing awareness that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.

It was billed perhaps most prominently as evidence for the continuing McConaissance, but each and every actor, from high - paycheck megastars (Reese Witherspoon) to newcomer child actors (star - in - the - making Tye Sheridan) to, yes, the man of the hour himself (Matthew McConaughey has never appeared more vulnerable than as the title's hood - on - the - run), thrive under the tutelage of a director concerned with a casual reality, even when the circumstances touch upon the fantastical.

In a welcome change from most child actors, they never resort to cloying «look how cute I am» mugging and line readings to endear themselves to the audience; in fact, it's their spunk, strength, and steadfast refusal to act cute that makes them so likable — and so completely believable as action heroes.

British actor ALEX PETTYFER has made a vow to keep his personal life fiercely guarded in a bid to emulate his screen heroes.The Wild Child star is...

MARK WAHLBERG is trying to scare his children off the idea of getting tattoos - the actor made his two eldest witness him undergo laser treatment to...

Before he starred in the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy, Elijah Wood was an accomplished child actor, making his name in commercials: some cheesier than others.

Haley Joel Osment was considered the most amazing child actor around following his performance in The Sixth Sense, but he's burdened with the task of making his character's actions and words seem credible without giving away the big twist, which is a tall order for a 10 - year - old.

Former Star Wars child actor Jake Lloyd has told how he quit acting after school bullies mocked his Hollywood career and made life a «living...

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The adult actors knew how to make it «British» enough, but the child actors could have used a little more guidance.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

With a class made up of budding writers and actors, as well as those less likely to want to steal show, it's important to give every child the tools they need to read, write and perform plays.