Sentences with phrase «hiring actors who»

The film industry has recently come under fire for representing certain types of individuals on screen but not actually hiring actors who are living those realities, including the recent horror film Hush; Kate Siegel, a non-deaf actress, was cast in the role of Maddie, a deaf writer.

They weren't sure at that point whether or not they wanted to hire folks who could speak the language of Yiddish fluently or if they wanted to hire an actor who could speak it phonetically, and they ended up going with folks who could speak it fluently, and rightfully so.

Not exact matches

That's right, Old Spice and Proctor and Gamble, who have hired Crews to act in a number of commercials, sent the actor an amazing letter of encouragement:

Another supposed participant — who, in reality, was an actor hired by the experimenter — was the interviewer.

I am a filmmaker who was hiring actors for a short film I was doing.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

Masterful crime thriller starring Adrien Brody as a private eye hired to solve the mystery behind the suspicious 1959 death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who played Superman on TV.

Brit actor Jason Statham, who most viewers will probably recognize from Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, plays Frank Martin, a former military special ops agent who currently is a driver for hire for anyone willing to pay his expensive salary for moving things from one place to another in one piece and without getting caught.

He plays struggling actor and divorced dad Daniel who tries to stay in his kids» lives by dressing up as an (unconvincing and slightly creepy) older woman and getting hired by his ex-wife (Sally Field) to be the children's nanny.

Continuing a string of interesting characters, McConaughey was a police officer moonlighting as a contract killer who is hired to off the mother of a small - time drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in William Friedkin's darkly comedic thriller «Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor.

Vega stands in the limelight for every trans actor and actress who has been told they aren't famous enough, or skilled enough, or world - ready enough to be hired and to carry a film to success.

More elaborately, Ficarra and Requa give huge scenes to veteran actors B.D. Wong, (Law & Order: SVU) as a high - stakes gambler at the (don't call it a Super Bowl, because the NFL wasn't licensed) AFFA League Championship, and Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) as security agent Owens, a push broom - mustached advisor to a European racing millionaire (Rodrigo Santoro) who has hired Nick to swindle a competitor and ensure his team's victory.

For any reboot to work it will depend on who they hire to replace the aging actor.

Al Pacino won his first Best Actor Oscar ® for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him.

They wish to keep the infinity stone away from people who'd misuse it: Yondu (Michael Rooker), a rich freak called The Collector (Benicio Del Toro), power - mad Thanos (voiced by Josh Brolin) and revenge - mad Ronan (Lee Pace, the usual classically trained actor hired to lend gravitas to villains).

For an animator who once sought to dethrone Disney atop the American animation food chain, Bluth goes to great pains to emulate Disney images here as varied as «Steamboat Willie» - era big - eyed bugs to the mice from Cinderella while also both hijacking Disney voice talent (Benson, Gottfried) and hiring voice actors capable of emulating same (Conforti).

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

Language: Korean Genre: Action / Crime MPAA rating: NR Director: Dong - Hoon Choi Actors: Gianna Jun, Hae - suk Kim, Yun - seok Kim Plot: The thief Popeye is hired by his former partner Macau Park (who still has a cache of gold from their last job) to steal a priceless diamond known as the «Tear of the Sun» but Popeye has an ace up his sleeve: master safe cracker Pepsi - former flame of Park.

The British actor plays Captain James Conrad, a Special Air Service (SAS) tracker who is hired to go to a deserted island on a mission to find the...

Mirren relishes her one - dimensional villain, Diane Lane plays Trumbo's supportive wife Cleo, Michael Stuhlbarg is deeply sympathetic as Trumbo's friend and actor Edward G. Robinson, and I would love to see a spinoff featuring schlock - peddling producers Frank (John Goodman) and Hymie King (Stephen Root), who hired Trumbo when no one else would.

White is an astonishment as Buck, managing the difficult task of being endearing and unsettling at the same time; Paul Weitz (who, along with brother Chris, co-directed American Pie) is amusingly faux macho as the actor hired to portray Chuck in Buck's play; and talent manager Colt is a natural screen presence.

In the other major categories, John Hawkes won best actor in the deeply moving The Sessions for his brilliant and sensitive portrayal of a severely disabled man who, as a virgin, decides to hire a sex surrogate so he can experience the joys of intimacy with a woman.

If you'd like to know the essence of the comedic approach employed in Epic Movie, it's that they've hired a bunch of comedic actors who look or act similar to those found in the big - budget movies, give them funny names similar to the characters found in those movies, then proceed to find a way for them to get hit in the face, stomach, or in most cases, their testicles.

However, as the film carries on with MI6 hiring Lara to take down Ciaran Hinds weapons dealer (the actor usually is lumped with small bit - parts in cinema but it is nice to see Hinds grab a role he can truly tear into), who is planning on digging up Pandora's Box and using it as a bioweapon, it slowly moves away from the film that the fans want to see.

And look, they went and hired that Bergman actor who stuffed Steve Buscemi into the wood chipper in Fargo: Peter Stormare as police chief of an isolated Mennonite community in Ontario.

Each was trying to move from actor - for - hire to actors who write, direct, produce, and create their own vehicles.

«At least Boyle, who can not at all grasp how to frame a shot or tell a story without treating his viewers like imbeciles, and Sorkin knew well enough to hire great actors to play out their technobabble update on A CHRISTMAS CAROL.»

Barry has gone on to publish seven books through KDP, and he turned to ACX — a service created by Amazon subsidiary Audible — to hire the voice actor who brought A Strange and Bitter Fruit to a new audience as an audiobook.

You take on the role of somebody who has inherited a chunk of money, parcel of land and several scripts from a dead uncle and decides to make his or her fortune through the magic of the movies, hiring famous actors, building up your studio and competing in the Academy Awards.

I would much rather they save that Ellen Page fund and hire several decent actors who can speak in their native accent and still fit in.

When it comes to the voice acting, you can definitely tell who are the real actors hired for this gig and who are the pro athletes being paid a handsome fee to deliver lines in a fashion that is more wooden than Pinocchio's nose.

Other characters will refer to Duke as Grayson — the original main character, and they try to jokingly make Duke question who that person is, but the novelty wears out fast and it seems more than apparent that they probably just couldn't hire the voice actors to redo the lines along with Jon St. John.

Gallery employees usually stationed at the front desk were replaced by hired actors, who performed Andrea Fraser's work May I Help You?

The new media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson had been developing an alter ego throughout the 1970s, named Roberta Breitmore, who she brought into existence with the help of hired actors and documentary evidence that she manufactured.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Liability Coverage for performers such as musicians, dancers, DJs, actors, buskers, etc, who are hired to perform at an event