Sentences with phrase «get thankless roles»

David Oyelowo gets the thankless role of the station's captain, saddled with the most perfunctory of lines.

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There has to be several players of high caliber and for that there has to be a farm - system and youth system that will provide great young players, or more money and luck to get players who can play those key thankless roles of being competent, while the flashy ones get the credit.

Relegated to the thankless role of Acerbic Sarcasm Machine, Zooey gets to play the best pal * to Sarah Jessica Parker and, with only a few small scenes, runs away with the entire tiresome movie.

Woodbine, as the troubled brother, has a more thankless role - it's not easy to be the source of all a plot's problems - but the way he gets us involved with the character is to show that his Joshua does love Jason, and their mother, and doesn't want to hurt them - although in his drinking and violence he is obviously the heir of Maddog.

Bobby Cannavale isn't nearly as entertaining as he has been in other films this year (Spy, Annie) as the fiancée of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, played by Judy Greer... getting yet another small, thankless role in a blockbuster this summer (she was previously seen in Tomorrowland and Jurassic World).

Mendelsohn, Pickup and Stephen Dillane are fine as the traditionalists grated by Churchill's brusque populism, and Lily James gets another someone thankless role in 2017, trading in her Baby Driver name tag for a typewriter.

The deeply respected Jane Alexander turns up for only a handful of lines, and Bryce Dallas Howard gets an entirely thankless role as Connor's pregnant wife Kate.

Liane Balaban is cast in the thankless role of the nagging fiance who gets left behind.

It could be considered a thankless role under some circumstances (she doesn't get a lot of the script's comedy), but it allows her to unlock the uneasy balance between motherly love and disappointment and economic anxiety and social status and all of the things that a lower class family has to contend with.

Christopher Meloni and Richard Schiff get thankless supporting roles, while Laurence Fishburne competently plays Daily Planet Editor - In - Chief.

Justin Bartha gets the usually thankless role of the sidekick but proves to have a knack for comedy and timing without being grating or out of place.