Sentences with phrase «de force role»

Here's a plot summary of the show: in a tour de force role, Benedict plays the titular character who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior.

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He was overwhelmingly lined up as a 4 - and 5 - tech DE and forced to play a passive control, read & react role.

Mr. Kingsley has a role that may seem like a tour de force but is really no more than a trick.

Engaging biopic about the rise of power of Adolf Hitler, Hitler: The Rise of Evil features a brilliant tour de force performance by actor Robert Carlyle in the lead role.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

And this is an ensemble piece, notwithstanding the tour de force nature of Metcalf's role and her work in it.

So, one can't help but wonder whether his recently landing an Oscar nomination for the role might be as much for this impressive tour de force as for finally getting his act together away from the camera.

Rockwell has been a hard - working actor for a while (witness his solo tour de force in Moon) without ever quite breaking through to the level of acclaim he deserves, but this role could change that.

Gary Oldman is an actor known for disappearing into his roles, and playing George Smiley, a spymaster known for being able to disappear into the background is a tour de force for him.

I'll bet you've heard, at one point or another, of some cinematic masterpiece praised as a tour de force; a defining role.

«If the art world gave out Oscars, Cate Blanchett should win for her tour de force of starring roles in Manifesto at the Park Avenue Armory.»