For
all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Finally, unlike his brief appearances on Game of Thrones (
as the elusive Rickon Stark), young
actor Art Parkinson gets to show off some
dramatic chops playing Vlad's son, Ingeras.
Whitehouse and Freeman may have cut their teeth and first come to prominence
as comic
actors, but both possess impressive
dramatic chops, the colder elements of their characters delivering jolts when prefaced by the lightest sprinklings of humour.
Turns out the 26 - year - old
actor is just
as natural at charming the ladies and fielding dick jokes onscreen
as he is exercising his serious
dramatic chops.
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.
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 group.
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.
«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.