Sentences with phrase «from cameo roles»

That win kicked off a new era of success at Barcelona and Iniesta won over the doubters to graduate from a cameo role and become the heart of Pep Guardiola's midfield.

We have not seen too much of Ben Davies recently, apart from a cameo role against Watford so Danny Rose could be rested for the Chelsea game.

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For Walcott to start making an impact for Arsenal right after returning from the long injury layoff, the Gunners have to put themselves into good positions in their upcoming games, making it easier for Walcott to find the 25 and 30 - minute cameo roles without scrutiny.

Riise made over 300 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool after signing from Monaco in 2001 and he returned at the weekend in a 45 - minute cameo role in what may turn out to be his last ever game at Anfield in the All - Star match.

Tevez's Argentinia team - mate is set to make his competitive début for the club, though, with Sergio Aguero, a # 40M signing from Spanish club Atletico Madrid, ready to be unleashed — though he may have to settle for a second - half cameo role.

His raw pace in behind a leaky Everton defence will reward his manager should he earn more than just a late cameo role from the bench.

Despite starting all three Primera Division games so far this term, Fabregas remains far from happy playing a cameo role for his boyhood...

Readers of Melissa Kite's Tamsin Lightwater column for the Spectator - now, alas, defunct - will have noted that from time to time it gave a cameo role to David Davis.

Typically, the term «cameo role» (or just cameo) refers to a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

After appearing in a pair of supporting roles (Trapped in Paradise and The Road to Wellville (both 1994)-RRB- and a cameo (1996's The Shot) shortly thereafter, Carvey disappeared almost entriely from the public eye until resurfacing in the 1999 Saturday Night Live; Presidential Bash and once again taking a small role in Adam Sandler's Little Nicky (2000).

Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big - screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation.

We also get appearances from James Earl Jones (who gets to be atypical and silly), as well as a stand out, but all too brief cameo from Samuel L. Jackson (in his second ever film role) as a bum who tries to hold up a fast food joint.

Murphy and Hall play multiple roles, and there are innumerable celebrity cameos peppered throughout the proceedings — including the Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) from Trading Places.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

A nice role as well for her coach, Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson) with a cameo for a hard copy producer, Bobby Cannavale, who from time to time lets us in on the progress of the story.

A who's who of familiar faces (from Zac Efron to Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver) have minor roles as characters in «The Room», while other big names appear in memorable cameos, including Judd Apatow and Bryan Cranston.

Full of really great and odd performances, it contains many great actors who usually take on smaller and yet substantial roles such as Peter Sarsgaard as a grave digging kleptomaniac, Ian Holm as Andrew's psychiatrist father, who had put his son into a lithium infused haze, and strangely enough a cameo from rapper Method Man as a bellhop.

In films from 1967, Powell played the title role in Ken Russell's Mahler (1974), and later essayed the lengthy cameo part of the ill - fated Captain Walker in Russell's Tommy (1975).

That doesn't mean the movie escapes the intersectional nature of this universe of movies: There's a cameo from one superhero (kind of a favor, since Thor appeared after the end credits of that hero's solo film), and the Hulk, as well as his scientist counterpart Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), has a supporting role.

The site reports that casting continues — with one of the titular eight roles still to be filled — while «there is every possibility» that stars from the original Steven Soderbergh - directed trilogy of films could also appear in cameo roles.

As directed by Ron Howard, «Rush» stars Chris Hemsworth as Hunt, German «Inglourious Basterds» star Daniel Brühl in what's apparently going to be a star - making role as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, plus Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara («Control») and «Game Of Thrones» actress Natalie Dormer (and maybe a cameo from Russell Crowe, playing Richard Burton).

Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz - Plasse and even Nicolas Cage (in a rumoured cameo role) all look set to return for «Kick Ass 2: Balls to the Wall,» and the task of filling the huge amount of supporting roles from Mark Millar's twisted comic book sequel is now well underway.

It's an interesting spree — strewn with cameos from Jake Tapper, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Richardson and more — and Nolte seems to make more of the role than the scripts offer.

The late Chris Farley, as hysterical as he ever was, is amusing in a cameo role, but, as a whole, the supporting players are amateurish and seemingly free from any directorial guidance.

An Apatow alum whose only appearance in recent years was a self - parodying cameo in «Knocked Up,» Franco owns the role — from the long, unkempt hair to the multi-colored pajama pants — and in doing so, will likely go down as one of the more memorable stoners in film.

One assumes from his coveted «and X as Y» credit that the role will amount to a cameo, yet Malkovich actually has a sizable part as English's (and England's) arch enemy, a French industrialist who plans to get Queen Elizabeth to abdicate the throne, be coronated in her place, and transform Great Britain into a prison colony, which will apparently net him oodles of cash but, more importantly, allow his inner megalomaniac to run riot.

Plus, an update from Finn Jones on Iron Fist, details on Rogue One's big cameo role, and more on The Vampire Diaries» future.

All - be-it in cameo roles, his most reliable trio from the early days of his career in Wilson, Schwartzman and Murray are here, once again.

Ever since Alfred Hitchcock popularized the director cameo, audiences expect to see certain filmmakers pop up in small roles within their own films; from Quentin Tarantino to Spike Lee to M. Night Shyamalan, the faces of the directors are as expected as their distinct visual styles.

The Hollywood Reporter claims that America's favorite rollerblading werewolf was offered several roles in the Kingsman sequel, ranging from supporting characters to cameos, but it's unclear which he's signed on for (although the poster he tweeted hints his character will be Southern, at the very least).

«Big Eyes» is graced by a potentially award - winning performance from Amy Adams, arguably the cutest actress in Hollywood today, in the role of a woman who now, at the age of 87, is alive and well and is shown in a brief cameo as well as in an epilogue.

Co-writer Raimi has a cameo, too, and frequent Coens bit player Harry Bugin, who played Pete the elevator operator in Barton Fink, reappears in a more villainous role — first seen, if I'm not mistaken, as other characters emerge from an elevator.

They include real athletes in cameos, from Bill Buckner to Lawrence Taylor, with basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman holding a small character role.

Most egregious, however, is Sandler's continued insistence to pack as many noticeable faces into his films as he possibly can, including cameos from Dan Patrick, Sean Bean and a nothing role for Jane Krakowski as Cooper's just - for - show wife.

There are also good performances from supporting characters Miranda Richardson (The Bachelor, Merlin), Lisa Marie (Burton's wife, who has a habit of showing up in small roles in his films), Michael Gough (Alfred from the Batman movies), Ian McDiarmid (Restoration), Christopher Walken (Blast From the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a minifrom supporting characters Miranda Richardson (The Bachelor, Merlin), Lisa Marie (Burton's wife, who has a habit of showing up in small roles in his films), Michael Gough (Alfred from the Batman movies), Ian McDiarmid (Restoration), Christopher Walken (Blast From the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a minifrom the Batman movies), Ian McDiarmid (Restoration), Christopher Walken (Blast From the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a miniFrom the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a minimum.

Still it's an extraordinary story and the film is superbly cast, from pop - up cameos — Anna Camp as a prim schoolteacher, Peter Fonda as a corrupt preacher — to heftier roles (Vincent Kartheiser as Madalyn's estranged son, Bill; Adam Scott as an insistent reporter; Josh Lucas as Madalyn's former employee and kidnapper).

That's the RIGHT way to do it — the WRONG way is in something like «Robots» which has seemingly dozens of «name» actors cast in roles that range from major ones to glorified cameos.

He looks old here, made up with a gray beard and wizard robes, aside from his introductory scenes, he doesn't really get time or space to develop his Taoist Gandalf character, nor does he have much opportunity to show off his fighting skills, given the supernatural nature of the action (Lam Ching - ying gets such a chance in a too - small cameo role as «The Purple Taoist»).

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

Though she turned down a small (nude) role in Breathless, she was soon cast in Godard's next film, Le petit soldat (1961), at age twenty, and would go on to appear in six more of his films during the sixties, including the iconic Vivre sa vie and Band of Outsiders (she and Godard would also cameo together in Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7).

And how many cameos, to go along with leading roles from Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Ty Burrell, will it take to help them solve the case?

And I loved the James Franco cameo and everyone else from Freaks and Geeks in their supporting roles.

The Franco brothers» show - business friendships come in handy in the supporting cast, with cameos from Sharon Stone, Judd Apatow, and Bob Odenkirk as Hollywood movers and shakers and fine actors like Jacki Weaver and Alison Brie giving substance even to small roles.

Sir Anthony Hopkins, as one would imagine, enhances his renewed part of Hannibal Lecter from the cameo to medium - sized frames; however, it is still a disoriented marginal role in this film.

Many familiar faces such as Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer, Kevin Hart, Romany Malco, Jerry Seinfeld, Taraji P. Henson, and Tracy Morgan turn up in roles ranging from cameos to more full - fledged supporting roles, and everyone makes sure to not waste whatever screen time they have and make memorable impressions, also in varied ways, from riotous (most notably, Cedric) to unexpectedly cutting (Union, as Andre's reality TV star fiancée).

In front of the camera the program includes co - starring / cameo roles from established actors like John Leguizamo, Eva Longoria, Lauren Luna Velez, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Judy Reyes, Emily Rios as well as hot rising talent like Gabriel Chavarria, Yvette Monreal and Victor Almanzar.

but even if she's not in contention for those big roles, at least she's not doing the zany romantic comedies (let's forgive the cameo from the awful Sex and the City 2) and instead of sulking around LA, she's working on passion projects.