Sentences with phrase «for tough guy roles»

Director - actor Clint Eastwood is best remembered for tough guy roles, but some of his best films echoed his love of jazz.

Mikkelsen is a powerful actor especially known for tough guy roles.

Not exact matches

But «here, we'll give you 3 at bats a week against the guys we think are too tough for CarGo to handle» is not a role that sets up a rookie to succeed.

In the meantime, a deliciously nasty bad guy, a white South African gangster and arms dealer named Klaue (Andy Serkis, in a role he introduced three years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron), is keen to get his hands on some vibranium himself, which involves an unexpected side trip to Busan, South Korea, for a prolonged sequence heavy on chases and tough - guy action but rather more conventional than the rest of the film.

Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as «We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger,» tough - guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man roles when he came to Hollywood in 1949.

It's the sort of gamble that seems exciting to us: the idea of savvy lady cops in a scenario usually reserved for middling comedians and slumming tough guys is the sort of conceptual genre - bending that could potentially alter mainstream gender roles.

Like Lloyd Bridges, Palance's career required some redefinition when he became too old to play the leading roles and tough guys he'd grown accustomed to and this breakout comedy seemed to be the solution he'd been looking for.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

Completely at home overacting amidst this tidal wave of CG nastiness and tough - guy posturing, a blond - locked Cage seems to be having a grand time, and Heard is certainly attractive enough for her sexpot role.

He's committed to the point that I've long considered him a better actor than he's generally given credit for (or given the roles to prove), though he seems to be doing perfectly well in the gregarious tough guy niche he's carved out for himself.

(Better known for tough guy characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible, actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role as Martin's straight man.)

His Nick Colton is certainly a far cry from the sort of tough guy roles he was famous for, and it's Bronson's performance that keeps things interesting even during some of the more superfluous sequences (this is a story that could've easily been told in half the time without losing a thing).

Previously, Duncan's stature relegated him to stereotypical tough black guy roles, but his performance here shatters any preconceived notions about his acting abilities, and will hopefully pave the way for meaty roles for this good actor.