Sentences with phrase «ever screen role»

In her best - ever screen role, Jennifer Lopez stars as Karen Sisco, a US Marshal who gets kidnapped by bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) after he breaks out of jail.

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Reluctantly, she accepted a role in Anthony Adverse (1936), her screen debut; for her work she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (the first ever awarded).

That movie took a long time to get off the ground and before she ever appeared as Nova, Harrison served as a stand - in in the role of Dr. Zira (the part ultimately played by Kim Hunter) in the screen tests and extensive make - up tests through which the project evolved, even participating in a test for Edward G. Robinson in the role of Dr. Zaius (Robinson was forced to withdraw from the project because of a heart condition that prevented him from working under the heavy make - up and in the high altitude location where much of the film was to be made).

Whether slicing up scoundrels in a pair of stilettos, or embarking on the most ballsy Basic Instinct gag ever committed to screen, this cements Deadpool as his defining role; and paired with John Wick's David Leitch in the director's chair, the action feels more muscular and ingenious.

At twenty - eight, Jones already has more than a decade of experience on the big screen, having made his début at sixteen in the Coen brothers» Oscar - winning No Country for Old Men as a teenager who stumbles upon Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh after a car accident, a role he landed after his first - ever audition.

Jackman has done a wonderful job in the role, widening the character's popularity from a comicbook fans to the general cinema - going public: It is only well - earned audience affection that allowed him to survive the execrable X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as idiotic a film as has ever had the misfortune to be screened publicly.

Starring Serkis in the role of Baloo, alongside Rohan Chand as Mowgli, Christian Bale as Bagheera, Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan, and Cate Blanchett as Kaa, the film looks to be a darker take on Rudyard Kipling's book than we've ever seen on screen before.

It's impossible to single out a role without mentioning another; though if I were compelled to nitpick I'd nominate Keaton and Ruffalo as the performers with ever - so - slightly more screen time.

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

While Latifah, long the film's shepherd, has expressed gratitude at the opportunity to grow as an actress before officially taking on the role, it's hard to imagine — given the destinations of «Candelabra» and «Normal Heart» — that a film unwilling to shy away from its black female protagonist's bisexuality would have ever seen the light of day on the big screen.

The film is a major threat for the Cast Ensemble award at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild awards, with supporting players like Mahershala Ali (charming as ever), Jim Parsons (playing an against - type), Kirsten Dunst (feverishly addictive in her mean woman role), and Glen Powell (playing the late John Glenn) all crucial to the film's inevitable success.

And while Strange may not be the most engaging of protagonists, Cumberbatch makes the leap from the small screen and a string of serious feature film roles to blockbuster leading man territory like he's been firing off zingers, juggling green screens and carrying franchises his whole life; if there were ever any doubt of Benedict's star quality, this is bona fide proof he's an A-lister with a capital «A».

Tom Holland has landed the role as the titular hero, making him the latest actor to slip into Spidey's red - and - blues and the first ever to web - swing his way into a Marvel Studios film — which may actually be «Captain America: Civil War» considering The Hollywood Reporter's report saying the actor screen tested with both Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, who stand on opposite sides as Iron Man and Captain America in «Civil War.»

For decades, I wondered if this extraordinary theatre actor would ever get a screen role worthy of his stage career.

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