I've known
a fair number of actors who were terrible, but they booked work all the time because they were good at auditioning.
Not exact matches
Spielberg's jury encompasses a
fair number of people who have launched their careers at Cannes or had their international reputations made here, including: actress Nicole Kidman; Romanian director and former Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu; two - time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz; Taiwanese - American director and multiple Oscar - winner Ang Lee; British director Lynne Ramsay; veteran French
actor Daniel Auteuil; Indian actress Vidya Balan, and Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
Even if the De Laurentiis house style demanded a degree
of euro - pudding casting (including some slumming by the likes
of Silvia Mangano, Max von Sydow, and Jürgen Prochnow), there's a
fair number of British stage
actors (Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart) to infuse the awesomely stilted dialogue with its requisite gravitas.
Tribeca always has a
fair number of comedies and movies starring comic
actors, and this year that extended to a lot
of movies by and about comedians — three, assuming I caught them all.