Sentences with phrase «even a starring role»

Items typical seen as waste like carrot tops, chard and broccoli stems, and cooking liquid are given new life, and even a starring role.

Even his starring role in the bloated 2004 action blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow and a two - year, high - profile romance with starlet Kirsten Dunst couldn't tarnish his serious image.

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Not only did he help create a compelling back story for the «best pilot in the galaxy,» he even landed a cameo role for his uncle — the «obsessive» Star Wars fan who introduced Isaac and his brother, journalist Mike Hernandez, to the films.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.

Then she went to the Yale School of Drama for her M.F.A and was a shining acting star even then playing roles in Shakespeare plays to musicals.

2 is only going to whip those rumors into a frenzy, as this Marvel sequel features Pratt in a role that's even more of a mashup of Harrison Ford's characters in Star Wars and Indiana Jones the first time around.

Jesus himself is played by the great Max von Sydow (famous for The Exorcist and Shutter Island, and about to be famous for his role in the upcoming Star Wars relaunch), Charlton Heston as John the Baptist and even John Wayne -LRB-!)

He still retains a tiny slice of the 17 per cent block of shares still owned by minority shareholders who are mainly Melbourne - based, but O'Hoy missed the cut and thrust of the fast - moving consumer goods industry even though he has a busy portfolio of other roles including as a director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash cricket team.

Even though parsnips are slightly higher maintenance, they add a distinctive flavor and took the starring role in my salad.

One famous dessert, Bananas Foster, even puts them in a starring role!

Even if they keep all four big stars, this new talent will wantto play and will not accept their roles with the team.

still, managers play a far important role in that, even Barca with all their stars were humiliated due to the manager enforcing a different tactic that was well read by PSG, but they had MSN and everybody else, they are well paid superstars, what happened then?

Even without the latest bad luck injury suffered by the Arsenal and England international star Jack Wilshere last season, it was looking as if he would have a real fight on his hands to get a regular place in the Arsenal starting line up, mainly dues to the excellent form of his main rival for the role, Aaron Ramsey.

Perhaps it'll even be golf's most captivating star playing the main role come Sunday evening.

The then -19-year-old starred for the relegation - threatened side, even turning out at centre - back and excelling, showing he was physically and technically ready for a prominent role at the Vicente Calderón.

Moreover, even when the ex-French super star was starting his coaching role at Madrid's youth setup, Del Piero think it was not something serious and only a way for Zidane to stay at Los Blancos.

That number could have been even greater too with a number of former Premier League stars also set to play starring roles for their country's at the finals.

However Miliband is the big draw, even if his previous party role is downplayed in literature for the event: he's described as a «Twitter personality, podcast star, and former leader of the Labour party».

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Even as the September 10 Democratic primary spelled defeat for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York's leading LGBT elected official, the results catapulted three gay men into roles as rising political stars.

Even though no massive stars form in such clusters, the stars there all produce protostellar jets from their accompanying disks, and these, too, can play a dramatic role in shaping a cluster's fate.

From regulating our immune and nervous systems to assisting with digestion, producing vitamins and enzymes, protecting us from harmful pathogens, and even boosting our memory, it's no surprise that the friendly flora in our gut — the probiotics — play a starring role in our metabolisms as well.

She has her own sense of individual style and that's as rare as hen's teeth these days when every teen star seems to have a stylist before they even get their first role.

Though subsequent performances in Better Than Sex (2000) and Russian Doll (2001) earned Wenham even more critical acclaim overseas, it was his role as a transvestite playwright in director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge that gave the rising star his first true taste of international success.

Samantha Barks is the revelation here — On My Own details the depths to which she loves but is not loved and Barks (a Broadway star in her first movie role) nails it — and gives Eponine such presence throughout her time onscreen that even before her big number, we've seen into her heart.

Shatner made one final appearance with the regular Star Trek cast in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), then served as one of the crossovers to the new series of films in Star Trek: Generations (1994), in which endlessly theorizing fans finally learned the fate of Captain Kirk.The success of the Trek movies reenergized Shatner's TV career, even if it didn't immediately earn him more film roles.

Lawrence grows even more into her starring role, giving the pic some good star appeal.

It was ladies night on this one with jacked up Jackman going shirtless and even giving his a butt a co — starring role.

I've been familiar with Keir Dullea's work for over thirty years, having seen most of his important film roles and even the oddball sci - fi TV series, The Star Lost, he did in Canada in 1973.

Her contribution to this project — a deft and humorous lead role as Margie Chizek, a Midwestern immigrant to Hollywood with big - star dreams who undergoes a brutal and hilarious metamorphosis in the face of Tinseltown romance — drew hearty praise from even those critics who responded negatively to the film itself.

Starring Saoirse Ronan in a career - defining role (even more so than her first Academy Award - nominated performance in 2007's Atonement), it may just be among the finer historical period pieces in recent memory.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

When Juno was the next big thing, everyone was ga - ga over Page, and she even got an Oscar nod for her starring role.

Even more excitingly, Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni has just confirmed to EW that Forest Whitaker will be reprising the role for Star Wars Rebels and voicing the character on the show in some upcoming episodes.

But even yesterday it looked like a long shot, and despite Carrey's apparent love of Matthew Vaughn's film, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that their sources think the chances of Carrey taking the role of Colonel Stars (a mobster - turned - fundamentalist - Christian - turned - superhero - recruiter) are slim — presumably the smaller budget of the sequel to the underperfoming original can't quite afford him.

Before landing the role of Don's doomed love interest, Spencer had starred on «All My Children,» had a few guest spots on television shows, and even led a short - lived Lifetime series.

Wahlberg will reprise his role as struggling inventor Cade Yeager in the movie and the star recently revealed he was on such a strict diet ahead of filming the «Transformers» movie he spent many an evening watching his family eat.

I've also always enjoyed the story of how Andrews, the originator of the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original stage production of My Fair Lady, was passed over for the My Fair Lady movie (in favor of then better - known star Audrey Hepburn), only to win the Oscar for Mary Poppins (Hepburn wasn't even nominated for My Fair Lady).

True to Soderbergh's promise, Contagion features plenty of stars: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Elliott Gould, Jennifer Ehle, John Hawkes — even comedian Demetri Martin turns up in a straight role as a medical researcher.

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

The Academy Award winners for Best Supporting Actor of the 1990s are a fine display of veteran Hollywood talent finally getting overdue recognition and a number of then upcoming stars who've risen to even greater roles since their victories.

He's even managed to attract some star quality in the persons of Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson as oily villain Sydney Swallows and filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks) in a cameo role as Bubba Rich, mayor of small town Woodhaven.

Actors aren't Navy SEALs, I know, but Johansson was, in fact, brave to take on this role: brave in that it's a sharp left turn from what audiences expect or even like; brave in that she embraced an artistically bold method of building a movie when most other movie stars would have said no thanks to the idea of chatting up random Scotsmen in a van.

It's nice to see Kit Harrington get a starring role, and even see David Harewood in a feature film, but there's not a whole lot separating this film from anything else we have seen.

Even if the show didn't give its guest stars enough great dialogue or room to showcase their acting chops in every episode, it's obvious they know their audience because they consistently cast the perfect guest star in these choice roles.

Elba has been long touted as a contender for the role when current star Daniel Craig steps down, even receiving support from another former Bond,...

Matt Damon and Ben Afleck star in their own breakthrough roles as best friends closer than even blood brothers.

One could read that the lack of passion he displays comes from the fact that his character is still in mourning, but more likely, Holloway is drawing his anguish from the realization that his career is reduced to starring in vehicles that don't even offer a tenth of the dramatic range as a recurring role on a TV show.

Faithful to the basic plot of the original, but not necessarily to the characters, as some Capulet and Montague roles switch sides, others are renamed, and even our star - crossed lover's parents get titles.

Donnie Yen, the international martial - arts superstar who was introduced to an even wider audience with his role as blind monk Chirrut Imwe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has taken another high - profile role for Disney.